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Verse 1 Kings 17:24. _THE WORD OF THE LORD IN THY MOUTH_ IS _TRUTH._]
_Three_ grand effects were produced by this temporary affliction:
1. The woman was led to examine her heart, and try her ways;
2...
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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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_Now_by _this_ R.V. omits the last two words. The italics of A.V. shew
that there is nothing in the Hebrew for -by," and the word rendered
-this" is only a particle to strengthen the adverb -now." The...
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THE WOMAN SAID—NOW BY THIS I KNOW THAT THOU ART A MAN OF GOD— The
woman certainly had sufficient reason to believe that Elijah was a
prophet, or person sent from God, when she saw the miraculous incre...
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C. ELIJAH AT ZAREPHATH 17:8-24
As the water supply at Cherith began to fail, God instructed Elijah to
leave the land of Israel and journey to the Phoenician village of
Zarephath. Two great miraculous...
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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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NOW BY THIS I KNOW... — In these words we trace the final victory of
faith, brought out by the crowning mercy of the restoration of her
son. First, the widow had spoken of Jehovah from without, as “th...
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וַ תֹּ֤אמֶר הָֽ אִשָּׁה֙ אֶל
־אֵ֣לִיָּ֔הוּ עַ
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NEW LIFE FOR THE DEAD
1 Kings 17:17
It must have been a severe trial to Elijah's faith, first to note the
gradual diminishing of the brook; then the abject poverty of the woman
to whom he was directe...
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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 the woman said to Elijah, Now by this (l) I know that thou [art] a
man of God, [and] that the word of the LORD in thy mouth [is] truth.
(l) It is hard to depend on God, unless we are confirmed by...
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(24) And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a
man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.
Poor woman! notwithstanding the long series of miracles, which sh...
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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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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 THE WOMAN SAID TO ELIJAH, NOW BY THIS I KNOW THAT THOU ART A MAN
OF GOD,.... She took him to be one at his first coming to her; she was
in a great measure confirmed in it by the miracle of the bar...
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And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou [art] a man
of God, [and] that the word of the LORD in thy mouth [is] truth.
Ver. 24. _Now by this I know._] I am better assured of that whi...
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_Elijah said, See, thy son liveth_ And see the power of prayer, and
the power of him that hears and answers prayer, that kills and makes
alive. _The woman said, Now by this I know that thou art a man...
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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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THE DEAD BOY RESTORED TO LIFE...
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And the woman said to Elijah, who by this miracle had proved himself a
type of the great Master and Lord of death, NOW, BY THIS I KNOW THAT
THOU ART A MAN OF GOD, her conviction was now most assured,...
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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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17-24 Neither faith nor obedience shut out afflictions and death. The
child being dead, the mother spake to the prophet, rather to give vent
to her sorrow, than in hope of relief. When God removes ou...
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NOW BY THIS I KNOW; now I am assured of that concerning which I began
upon this sad occasion to doubt. THAT THE WORD OF THE LORD IN THY
MOUTH IS TRUTH; that the God whom thou professest is the true Go...
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1 Kings 17:24 woman H802 said H559 (H8799) Elijah H452 this H2088 know
H3045 (H8804) man H376 God...
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ELIJAH RAISES THE WIDOW'S SON TO LIFE (1 KINGS 17:17).
In this final miracle God reveals His power of life and death. Sadly
many people would have been dying in the area at the time because of
the fam...
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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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_I know that thou art a man of God._
ELIJAH
1. From whom does the testimonial come? “I know.” These are the
words of the heathen villager, a poor widow, living in an
out-of-the-way place, probably as...
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_And it came to pass after these things._
THE TEST OF THE HOME-LIFE
Many a man might bear himself as a hero and saint in the solitudes of
Cherith, or on the heights of Carmel, and yet wretchedly fail...
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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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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 17:17. FELL SICK … NO BREATH LEFT IN HIM—This phrase does
not absolutely imply _death_ (comp. Daniel 10:17; also 1 Kings 10:17).
Josephus renders the incident...
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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 John 2:21; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; Ecclesiastes 12:10; John 11:15;...
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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...