Having partaken of the provision thus miraculously supplied, he went forward on his solitary way for forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God, where he took up his abode in a cave. It contained six separate narratives that included several anecdotal stories about Elijah's life that may have circulated independently among his disciples in the northern kingdom. (See NABOTH.) ( 1 Kings 22:1 1 Kings 22:51 ; 2 Kings 1:17 ) before we again catch a glimpse of Elijah. The time now drew near when he was to be taken up into heaven (2 Kings 2:1-12). To say that Elijah at Horeb "learns the gentleness of God" (Strachan in HDB) is to contradict the immediate text of the narrative and the history of the times.
At last the appearance of a rising cloud "as small as a man's hand" was reported; and before the hurrying chariot of the king could cross the plain to Jezreel it was overtaken by "a great rain" from heavens black with clouds and wind after three rainless years. Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon - King James Version, California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information, a son of Elam with foreign wife during exile, a son of Harim, and priest, with foreign wife during exile.
The Naboth incident shows a social dimension in the clash between Israelite law and Canaanite kingship. Like Amos in a later period, Elijah showed an astute social concern, emerging as a leader with strong ethical ideals ( 1 Kings 21 ). He suddenly appears before Ahab, prophesies a three-years drought in Isr'l, and proclaims the vengeance of Jehovah for the apostasy of the king. Whether Elijah was already a familiar figure at the court of Ahab, the narrative beginning with 1 Kings 17:1 does not state. Old Testament. At the prayer of Elijah, life returned to the child (1 Kings 17:17-24). Ahaziah is on his death-bed, ( 1 Kings 22:51 ; 2 Kings 1:1 2 Kings 1:2 ) and sends to an oracle or shrine of Baal to ascertain the issue of his illness; but Elijah suddenly appears on the path of the messengers, without preface or inquiry utters his message of death, and as rapidly disappears. In the strength of that food he then wandered on for forty days and nights, until he found himself at Horeb, the mountain sacred because there Yahweh had revealed Himself to Moses (1 Kings 19:5-8). The stern prophet who would order the slaughter of the 450 Baal prophets might well call down fire to consume the soldiers of an apostate and a hostile king.
19. Some six years after this he warned Ahab and Jezebel of the violent deaths they would die (1 Kings 21:19-24; 22:38). In answer to his despondent words God manifests to him his glory, and then directs him to return to Damascus and anoint Hazael king over Syria, and Jehu king over Israel, and Elisha to be prophet in his room ( 1 Kings 19:13-21 ; Compare 2 Kings 8:7-15 ; 9:1-10 ). ), Elijah represented a class of prophets who were normally not associated with any sanctuary or prophetic guild (but see 2 Kings 2:3-7 ).
"And it came to pass as they still went on and talked, that, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven." His son Ahaziah pulled it down upon his own head. No one of the old prophets is so frequently referred to in the New Testament. One of the better known characters in the Old Testament, he also made an impact on later Judaism and on the New Testament writers. ( 1 Kings 18:46 ) But in addition to this he occasionally wore the "mantle" or cape of sheepskin which has supplied us with one of our most familiar figures of speech. Hebrew prophet who sought to abolish idolatry and restore justice. It may be supposed either that Elijah anticipated the character of Jehoram, and so wrote the warning message, which was preserved in the schools of the prophets till Jehoram ascended the throne after the Tishbite's translation, or that the translation did not actually take place till after the accession of Jehoram to the throne (2 Chronicles 21:12; 2 Kings 8:16).
This is the situation which calls for a judgment of Yahweh, announced beforehand, as is often the case, by a faithful prophet of Yahweh. Paul ( Romans 11:2 ) refers to an incident in his history to illustrate his argument that God had not cast away his people. His appearance in glory on the mount of transfiguration does not seem to have startled the disciples. Amos and Hosea would have had no standing-ground had it not been for the work of Elijah and the influences which at Divine direction he put in operation. He was at the time with Elisha, who seems now to have become his constant companion, and who would not consent to leave him. Elijah declared in few words that Yahweh, true and only rightful God of Israel, whose messenger he was, was even at the very time sending a drought which should continue until the prophet himself declared it at an end.
Elijah's reply, answering scorn with scorn, is what we should expect from a prophet; the woes of Israel are not to be charged to the prophet who declared the doom, but to the kings who made the nation deserve it (1 Kings 18:17,18). Jesus used the story of God sending Elijah to the widow of Zarephath to show that the Gentiles were not to be excluded from salvation ( Luke 4:25-26 ).
The purpose and meaning of the Elijah chapters is to be grasped by those who accept their author's conception of Yahweh, of His power, and of His work in Nature and with men, rather than by those who seek to replace that conception by another. In this or some other retreat an interval of more than two years must have elapsed.
He lived in the time of Jehoram, to whom he sent a letter of warning (comp. When the brook dried up God sent him to the widow of Zarephath, a city of Zidon, from whose scanty store he was supported for the space of two years. (1 Kings 22:1,51; 2 Kings 1:17) before we again catch a glimpse of Elijah. The time now drew near when he was to be taken up into heaven ( 2 Kings 2:1-12 ). Bible Dictionaries - Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Elijah, Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Bible Dictionaries - Easton's Bible Dictionary - Elijah, Bible Dictionaries - Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary - Elijah, Bible Dictionaries - Smith's Bible Dictionary - Elijah, Encyclopedias - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Elijah, California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information, "The Tishbite," the "Elias" of the New Testament, is suddenly introduced to our notice in. He suddenly appears before Ahab, prophesies a three-years drought in Israel, and proclaims the vengeance of Jehovah for the apostasy of the king. Later, Elijah protested Ahaziah's appeal to Baal-Zebub, the local god of Ekron ( 2 Kings 1:9-15 ; Josephus called this god "the lord of the flies, " as did the Ras Shamra texts ). Unless we are to suppose an accidental repetition by a very early copyist (early, since it appears already in the Septuagint), we may see in it an indication that Elijah's despondency was not easily removed, or that he sought at Horeb an especial manifestation of Yahweh for his encouragement, or both.
), who had succeeded his father Ahab, of his approaching death (2 Kings 1:1-16). James 5:17, "Elijah was a man of like passions (margin, "nature") with us," is brief indeed; but examination of the books which have been written upon the life of Elijah leads to the conclusion that it is possible to err by attaching to events meanings which those events were never intended to bear, as well as by introducing into one's study too much of sheer imagination. The message ran, "As surely as thou art Elijah and I am Jezebel" (so the Septuagint), "so let the gods do to me, and more also" (i.e. The reason for this may be his enigmatic rapture in 2ki 2:11 (the reward for his zeal for the law, according to 1 Macc 2:58, ; which fostered the idea of his sinlessness ), and the prophecy of his return in Malachi, which nurtured the idea of him becoming a messianic figure from the heavenly kingdom who came to purify the priesthood. Elijah and Ahaziah 6.
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