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Verse 1 Kings 19:20. _LET ME - KISS MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER_] Elisha
fully understood that he was called by this ceremony to the prophetic
office: and it is evident that he conferred not with flesh an...
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LET ME, I PRAY THEE, KISS MY FATHER ... - Not an unnatural request
before following his new spiritual father. Elijah sees in his address
a divided heart, and will not give the permission or accept the...
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3. ELIJAH IN THE WILDERNESS AND UPON MOUNT HOREB
CHAPTER 19
_ 1. Elijah's flight and despondency (1 Kings 19:1)_
2. Upon Mount Horeb (1 Kings 19:9)
3. Elisha called (1 Kings 19:10)
Elijah perhaps...
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1 Kings 19:1. ELIJAH'S FLIGHT TO HOREB. HIS COMMISSION. Jezebel, it
will be noticed, can do no more than threaten Elijah: her power is
limited. Elijah escapes to the southern extremity of Judah, to
Be...
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WHAT HAVE. DONE. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_ (App-6), or "what is
the meaning of what. did? ...
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_kiss my father and my mother_ He was sensible that the separation was
to be permanent, and that a higher call than that of earthly parentage
was laid upon him. This is the ground for his petition. Th...
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FOR WHAT HAVE I DONE TO THEE?— It seems very difficult to give any
satisfactory explanation of these words as they stand in our version.
They might be rendered _for I have done something to thee:_ Eli...
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C. ELIJAH'S CALL OF A SUCCESSOR 19:19-21
TRANSLATION
(19) And he went from there, and found Elisha son of Shaphat while he
was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he was with the
twelft...
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_AND HE LEFT THE OXEN, AND RAN AFTER ELIJAH, AND SAID, LET ME, I PRAY
THEE, KISS MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER, AND THEN I WILL FOLLOW THEE. AND
HE SAID UNTO HIM, GO BACK AGAIN: FOR WHAT HAVE I DONE TO THEE...
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ELIJAH AT HOREB
2. Then Jezebel sent, etc.] Her religious feelings as a votary of Baal
and her dignity as the queen had both been outraged by the prophet,
and she at once sought revenge....
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GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY
1 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 19
GOD SPEAKS TO ELIJAH AT *MOUNT SINAI
V1 Ahab told Jezebel everything that Elijah had done. He also told her
that Elijah had killed all...
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LET ME, I PRAY THEE. — It is impossible not to compare this with the
similar request made to our Lord (Luke 9:61) by one who declared
readiness to follow Him. The comparison suggests that the answer o...
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וַ יַּעֲזֹ֣ב אֶת ־הַ בָּקָ֗ר וַ
יָּ֨רָץ֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י אֵֽלִיָּ֔הוּ וַ
יֹּ֗אמֶר אֶשְּׁקָה ־נָּא֙ לְ...
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THE CALL OF ELISHA
1 Kings 19:19
"The one remains, the many change and pass;
Heaven's light alone remains, earth's shadows flee."
- SHELLEY
WHETHER Elijah saw or saw not all that God had meant by...
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APPOINTING JEHOVAH'S INSTRUMENTS
1 Kings 19:15
Elijah was never reinstated in quite the position that he had occupied
before his fatal flight. True, he was bidden to return, and work was
given him t...
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The slaughter of the prophets of Baal aroused the ire of Jezebel to
such a degree that she sent a direct message full of fury to Elijah.
There is no escaping the sadness of his attitude on receiving t...
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And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, (i) Let me, I
pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and [then] I will follow
thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to...
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_Kiss, and bid them adieu. (Menochius) --- To thee. I have no farther
orders. Obey the Spirit of God. Hoc age. Hebrew, "for what have I done
to thee?" Did I require thee to follow me? Act as God may d...
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(19) В¶ So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat,
who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the
twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him...
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The days were very dark in Israel. Not only rebellion. And rebellion,
always serious, was peculiarly so in Israel, for there it was
insubordination in a direct manner against not only God's providence...
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Until now the prophet had stood before Jehovah (1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings
18:15) and had spoken in His name; but now, terrified by the threats
of Jezebel, he flees from the dangers of the place into which...
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AND HE LEFT THE OXEN, AND RAN AFTER ELIJAH,.... His heart being
touched by the Lord at the same time, and his mind enlightened to
understand what was meant by that action:
AND SAID, LET ME, I PRAY TH...
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And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray
thee, kiss my father and my mother, and [then] I will follow thee. And
he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to the...
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1 Kin. 19:20, 21. See Matthew 24:17; Matthew 24:18. The truth with
respect to what is related in these verses probably was thus: - Elijah
was directed by the Spirit of God to cast his mantle on Elisha...
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_He left the oxen and ran after Elijah_ Being powerfully moved to
follow him, and wholly give himself up to his function. _And said _
Or, _but he said_, or, _yet he said, Let me kiss my father_, &c. T...
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1 Eliiah threatned by Iezebel, fleeth to Beersheba,
4 In the wildernesse being wearie of his life, is comforted by an
Angel.
9 At Horeb God appeareth vnto him, sending him to anoint Hazael, Iehu,
an...
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Elijah Receives the Lord's Commission...
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ELIJAH FLEEING FROM JEZEBEL
(vs.1-10)
When Ahab informed his wife Jezebel of Elijah's having brought down
the fire of God to consume his sacrifice, of the slaughter of the
prophets of Baal and the a...
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GO BACK AGAIN:
_ Heb._ go return...
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19-21 Elijah found Elisha by Divine direction, not in the schools of
the prophets, but in the field; not reading, or praying, or
sacrificing, but ploughing. Idleness is no man's honour, nor is
husban...
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HE RAN AFTER ELIJAH; being powerfully moved by God's Spirit to follow
Elijah, and wholly to give up himself to his affection. AND SAID; or,
_but he said_; or, _yet he said_. LET ME KISS MY FATHER AND...
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1 Kings 19:20 left H5800 (H8799) oxen H1241 ran H7323 (H8799) after
H310 Elijah H452 said H559 (H8799) kiss H5401 (H8799) father H1 mother
H517 follow H3212 (H8799) H310 said H559 (H8799) back H3212 ...
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THE CALL OF ELISHA (1 KINGS 19:19).
In obedience to YHWH's command Elijah then went to seek out Elisha as
his successor. Arriving at the field where Elisha was ploughing he
threw his robe over him. E...
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CONTENTS: God's care of His overwrought prophet. Call of Elisha.
CHARACTERS: God, Elijah, Jezebel, Elisha.
CONCLUSION: Even though we faint in our faith, God abideth faithful.
The best thing for a d...
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1 Kings 19:2. _Jezebel_ swore to destroy Elijah. Ahab would perhaps
have received the prophet as his monitor and guide, had it not been
for this woman, now given over to a reprobate mind.
1 Kings 19:...
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_And He said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord._
ELIJAH’S VISION
I. The man himself. A great craggy soul that towers above the men of
his age--his head wreathed in the glories of h...
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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 19:1 Elijah has won a mighty battle on the
mountain, but a stronger opponent than Ahab awaits him: Queen Jezebel.
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 19:20. GO BACK AGAIN; for what, &c.—לֵךְ שׁוב.
Luther renders, “Go (to thy parents), and come (then) again.”
(_Keil_) “Go, but return soon, for it is a great...
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EXPOSITION
ELIJAH'S FLIGHT THE THEOPHANY OF HOREB AND THE CALLING OF ELISHA.—We
can readily understand with what a sense of humiliation and shame the
weak and excited king, who must have been awed and...
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So Ahab told his wife Jezebel the whole story of what had happened,
what Elijah did, and how he killed all of her prophets with the sword.
And Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, and she said, So let...
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Acts 20:37; Luke 9:61; Luke 9:62; Matthew 19:27; Matthew 4:20; Matthew
4:22; Matthew 8:21; Matthew 8:22; Matthew 9:9...
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ELIJAH FLEEING FOR HIS LIFE
1 Kings 19:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. The story of the slaughter of the prophets of Baal. The people fell
on their faces as soon as they saw that God consumed the sacrifice...
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He ran — Being powerfully moved by God's spirit to follow Elijah,
and wholly give up himself to his function. Let me kiss — That is,
bid them farewell. Go — And take thy leave of them, and then return...