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CHAPTER XVII
_Elijah's message to Ahab concerning the three years' drought_, 1.
_He is commanded to go to the brook Cherith; where he is fed by_
_ravens_, 2-7.
_He afterwards goes to a widow's hou...
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The name Elijah means “Yahweh is my God.” It is expressive of the
truth which his whole life preached.
The two words rendered “Tishbite” and “inhabitant” are in the
original (setting aside the vowel p...
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IV. THE PROPHET ELIJAH AND KING AHAB
1. Elijah's Prediction and Miracles
CHAPTER 17
_ 1. Elijah's message to Ahab (1 Kings 17:1)_
2. At the brook Cherith (1 Kings 17:2)
3. With the widow of Zarep...
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ELIJAH IS FED BY RAVENS, AND RAISES THE WIDOW'S SON. Elijah appeared
suddenly: we hear nothing of his birth or parentage. He simply
announced to Ahab, in the name of Yahweh, before whom I stand (_cf._...
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ELIJAH. First mention. GOD (_El_) is JAH (or Jehovah). See App-4.
TISHBITE. sojourner. Probably. priest.
INHABITANTS. sojourners.
BEFORE, &C. Probably. priest. See note above.
DEW. night-mist. Comp...
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1 Kings 17:1-7. Elijah the Tishbite. His prophecy of a drought and its
fulfilment (Not in Chronicles)
1. _And Elijah the Tishbite_ Elijah comes suddenly upon the scene and
throughout the history his a...
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ELIJAH THE TISHBITE— _Elijah the Tishbite, of Thezbeh in Gilead._
Houbigant. _Elijah,_ who in the New Testament is commonly called
_Elias,_ was of Thezbeh, a town on the other side of Jordan, in the
t...
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I. THE GREAT DROUGHT IN ISRAEL 17:1-24
The Ahab-Elijah clash was the epitome of the conflict which had been
going on in Israel between king and prophet since the founding of the
monarchy. The king had...
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_AND ELIJAH THE TISHBITE, WHO WAS OF THE INHABITANTS OF GILEAD, SAID
UNTO AHAB, AS THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL LIVETH, BEFORE WHOM I STAND,
THERE SHALL NOT BE DEW NOR RAIN THESE YEARS, BUT ACCORDING TO MY...
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17:1 Elijah (b-2) Meaning, 'Whose God ( _ El_ ) is Jehovah.'...
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OF THE INHABITANTS OF GILEAD] RM according to LXX, of Tishbeh of
Gilead.' SAID UNTO AHAB] Nothing is related about the reason for the
drought which the prophet predicted; but the cause was doubtless
A...
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ELIJAH AND THE WIDOW OF ZAREPHATH
The prophet Elijah, who occupies so large a space in the succeeding
history, is, like his successor Elisha, conspicuous among the
prophetic figures of the OT. as a wo...
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GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY
1 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 17
ELIJAH THE *PROPHET
V1 Now Elijah from Tishbe in Gilead spoke to Ahab. ‘I promise this
in the name of the *Lord because he is definit...
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ELIJAH THE TISHBITE OF THE INHABITANTS OF GILEAD. — The most
probable rendering of this disputed passage is that of the LXX., and
virtually of Josephus, “Elijah the Tishbite of Tishbe in Gilead,”
the...
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וַ יֹּאמֶר֩ אֵלִיָּ֨הוּ הַ
תִּשְׁבִּ֜י מִ תֹּ
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ELIJAH
1 Kings 17:1
"And Elias the prophet stood up as fire, and his word was burning as a
torch."
- Sir 48:1
"But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once,
and smite no more....
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SIN'S CLIMAX SUMMONS JEHOVAH'S PROPHET
1 Kings 16:29; 1 Kings 17:1
From the beginning of his reign Ahab set aside both the First and the
Second Commandment. His marriage with Jezebel, the young and b...
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Here began a new order, the prophetic. Of course there had been
prophets before, but with the coming of Elijah the office was elevated
to national importance. From this point onwards, in the economy o...
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And Elijah the Tishbite, [who was] of the inhabitants of Gilead, said
unto Ahab, [As] the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I (a)
stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but (b) accor...
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CONTENTS
We have in this chapter, for the first time, introduced to us, that
eminent prophet and servant of God, Elijah. He comes to Israel,
prophesying of a long season of drought. He is hidden of G...
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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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_A STERN MESSAGE_
‘And Elijah … said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth,
before Whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but
according to my word.’
1 Kings 17:1
This mira...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 17 AND 18.
Elijah and Elisha, on the contrary (witnesses for God in the midst of
a people that according to grace God still recognised as His own, but
who had...
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AND ELIJAH THE TISHBITE, [WHO] WAS OF THE INHABITANTS OF GILEAD,....
Which belonged partly to the Reubenites and Gadites, and partly to the
half-tribe of Manasseh on the other side Jordan, where this...
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And Elijah the Tishbite, [who was] of the inhabitants of Gilead, said
unto Ahab, [As] the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand,
there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to...
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_And Elijah the Tishbite_, &c. So bad was the character, both of the
Israelites and their princes, as represented in the foregoing chapter,
that one would have expected God should have cast off a peop...
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1 Elijah hauing prophecied against Ahab, is sent to Cherith, where the
rauens feed him.
8 He is sent to the widow of Zarephath.
17 Hee raiseth the widowes sonne.
24 The woman beleeueth him.
1 AND ...
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And Elijah ("My God is Jehovah") THE TISHBITE, a native, so far as can
be determined, of Galilee, but having been removed to Gilead, where he
lived as a stranger, WHO WAS OF THE INHABITANTS OF GILEAD,...
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THE FAMINE...
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ELIJAH PROPHESIES A DROUGHT
(vs.1-7)
Ahab was suddenly confronted by a prophet who had never been mentioned
before, Elijah the Tishbite, the first prophet of God spoken of as
arising from among the t...
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ELIJAH:
_ Heb._ Elijahu. Luke 4:25. he is called Elias...
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1-7 God wonderfully suits men to the work he designs them for. The
times were fit for an Elijah; an Elijah was fit for them. The Spirit
of the Lord knows how to fit men for the occasions. Elijah let...
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1 KINGS CHAPTER 17 Elijah foretelleth, Ahab that there shall be a
great drought; is sent to Cherith, where the ravens feed him, 1 KINGS
17:1. He is sent to Zarephath to a widow, who feedeth him with m...
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1 Kings 17:1 Elijah H452 Tishbite H8664 inhabitants H8453 Gilead H1568
said H559 (H8799) Ahab H256 LORD H3068 God...
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ELIJAH
Hebrew, "Elijahu," (Luke 1:17); (Luke 4:25) called Elias.
AHAB
It was a small thing for a man whose life was passed in Jehovah's
presence to stand before Ahab....
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1 Kings 17:1
I. There is no finer witness to the marvellous spirit and quenchless
"power" of the prophet Elijah than the fact that the impression he
made upon his contemporaries retained its clearness...
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CONTENTS: Elijah's ministry and prediction of drought. Elijah fed.
Raising of the widow's son.
CHARACTERS: God, Elijah, Ahab, Sarephath woman, her son.
CONCLUSION: God can wonderfully raise up serva...
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1 Kings 17:1. _Elijah the Tishbite._ His parentage is not named, but
the Jews call him a levite or a priest. He swore to Ahab in the name,
not of Baal, but of Jehovah. As the Lord had promised
covenan...
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_As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand._
THE SOURCE OF ELIJAH’S STRENGTH
This chapter begins with the conjunction “And”: it is, therefore,
an addition to what has gone before; and it...
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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 17:1 Elijah and Ahab. Other prophets had
addressed earlier kings (see 1 Kings 14:7;...
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THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF ELIJAH THE TISHBITE
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 17:1. ELIJAH THE TISHBITE—This is the first mention of him
in Scripture; an abrupt introduction, which seems to im...
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EXPOSITION
ELIJAH AND THE GREAT DROUGHT.—The picture which the historian has
just drawn of the shameless idolatry and the gross degeneracy of the
earlier part of Ahab's reign forms a fit prelude to an...
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By Chuck Smith
Let's turn to the First Kings, chapter seventeen.
The seventeenth chapter of First Kings introduces us now to a very
interesting character, Elijah the Tishbite, whatever Tishbite means....
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1 Kings 22:14; 2 Kings 3:14; 2 Kings 5:16; Acts 27:23; Deuteronomy 10
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JEHOVAH-JIREH
_Selections from 1 Kings 17:1_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
Our God is the God who is enough. There is no good thing which He
withholds from them who walk uprightly. Our God is able to make all...
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Elijah — The most eminent of the prophets, who is here brought in,
like Melchisedek, without any mention of his father, or mother, or
beginning of his days; like a man dropt out of the clouds, and rai...