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Local tradition places the site of Elijah’s sacrifice, not on the
highest point of the mountain (1,728 ft.), but at the southeastern
extremity (1,600 ft.) of the ridge, where a shapeless ruin, compose...
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2. ELIJAH ON CARMEL: THE ANSWERED PRAYER
CHAPTER 18
_ 1. The command to see Ahab (1 Kings 18:1)_
2. Elijah's response (1 Kings 18:2)
3. Ahab and Obadiah (1 Kings 18:3)
4. Elijah and Obadiah ...
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ELIJAH'S MEETING WITH AHAB AND HIS CONTEST WITH THE PRIESTS OF BAAL.
The history of Ahab's reign must have been something like the
following: On his marriage with Jezebel he must have allowed the
wors...
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CHILDREN. sons....
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II. THE GREAT CONTEST ON CARMEL 18:1-46
Events in Israel during the years of Elijah's self-imposed exile are
not narrated in any detail. No doubt at first Jezebel and the Baal
prophets assured the peo...
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_SO AHAB SENT UNTO ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND GATHERED THE
PROPHETS TOGETHER UNTO MOUNT CARMEL._ SO AHAB SENT UNTO ALL THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND GATHERED THE PROPHETS TOGETHER UNTO MOUNT
CARMEL...
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JEHOVAH OR BAAL?
1. In the third year] in Luke 4:2; James 5:17 the duration of the
famine is given as 3 years and 6 months....
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GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY
1 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 18
GOD SENDS ELIJAH TO KING AHAB
V1 After there had been no rain for three years, the *Lord spoke to
Elijah. ‘Go and meet King Ahab. Then...
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וַ יִּשְׁלַ֥ח אַחְאָ֖ב בְּ כָל
־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂ
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ELIJAH ON MOUNT CARMEL
1 Kings 18:20
"O for a sculptor's hand, That thou might'st take thy stand, Thy wild
hair floating in the eastern breeze!"
- KEBLE
IT never occurred to Ahab to refuse the chal...
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THE GOD THAT ANSWERETH NOT
1 Kings 18:16
“The God that answereth by fire, let Him be God.” We are thrilled
as we read these words. Our altars stand unkindled, our sacrifices are
unconsumed, our churc...
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In this chapter we have perhaps one of the most familiar stories of
the Old Testament. There are, however, certain points of interest
especially to be noted. The first is Ahab's connection with Obadia...
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(19) Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount
Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the
prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
(20)...
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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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SO AHAB SENT UNTO ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,.... By messengers,
requiring their attendance at Mount Carmel at such a time, at least
their chief and principal men:
AND GATHERED THE PROPHETS TOGETHER...
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So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the
prophets together unto mount Carmel.
Ver. 20. _Unto mount Carmel._] Where the Papists say that Elias used
to live a monastic retired lif...
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_So Ahab sent_, &c. He complied with Elijah's motion, because the
urgency of the present distress made him willing to try all means to
remove it; from a curiosity of seeing some extraordinary events;...
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1 In the extremitie of famine Eliiah sent to Ahab, meeteth good
Obadiah.
9 Obadiah bringeth Ahab to Eliiah.
17 Eliiah reprouing Ahab, by fire from heauen conuinceth Baals
prophets.
41 Eliiah by pra...
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ELIJAH'S RETURN TO FACE AHAB
(vs.1-20)
The famine lasted three and a half years (James 5:17), the same length
of time the Great Tribulation will last. But the rain would not be
sent until Elijah gave...
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17-20 One may guess how people stand affected to God, by observing how
they stand affected to his people and ministers. It has been the lot
of the best and most useful men, like Elijah, to be called a...
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He complied with Elijah's motion; partly, because it was so fair and
reasonable, that he could not refuse it with honour, nor without the
discontent of all his people, this being proposed in order to...
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1 Kings 18:20 Ahab H256 sent H7971 (H8799) children H1121 Israel H3478
gathered H6908 prophets H5030 together H6908
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CONTENTS: Elijah goes to meet Ahab and gives challenge. Contests with
the priests of Baal.
CHARACTERS: God, Elijah, Jezebel, Obadiah, Baal, priests.
CONCLUSION: The man of faith need not be afraid to...
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1 Kings 18:1. _After many days._ About the end of the third year,
leaving six months more for the crops to be sown and ripened, which
harmonizes the new testament with the old. Luke 4:25; James 5:17....
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_Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto Mount Carmel._
THE PRIESTS OF BAAL
Mendelssohn has wrought the harmonies and discords of this scene into
a grand oratorio, and the painter or poe...
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_When Ahab saw Elijah._
DELIVERANCE FROM THE MOUTH OF THE LION
I. The wonderful protection of the prophet;
II. The unjust accusation brought against him;
III. The bold language he uses; and,
IV....
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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 18:1 In ch. 1 Kings 17:1 Elijah has lived
privately, first in the Transjordanian wilderness and then in
Zarephath. Now he reappears in public. The drought will end, but not
bef
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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 18:20 All Israel is now gathered on MOUNT
CARMEL. It is a hill near modern Haifa.
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 18:19. PROPHETS OF BAAL, &c.—Soothsayers and oracle
príests. GROVES—Asherah. Baal and Astarte were the male and female
divinities. Jezebel was the patroness o...
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EXPOSITION
ELIJAH'S RETURN AND THE ORDEAL OF MOUNT CARMEL.—The preceding
chapter having been exclusively occupied with the fortunes of Elijah
during his enforced absence of three and a half years from...
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So our introduction to Elijah.
Now it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to
Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I
will send rain upon the eaRuth...
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1 Kings 22:9...
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ELIJAH AT MOUNT CARMEL
1 Kings 18:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
There are three things which we wish to consider:
1. JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE. The opening verse of chapter 18 says, "And it
came to pass after ma...
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Ahab sent — He complied with Elijah's motion; because the urgency of
the present distress made him willing to try all means to remove it;
from a curiosity of seeing some extraordinary events; and prin...