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Verse 28. _THEY CRIED ALOUD_] The poor fools acted as they were
bidden.
_AND CUT THEMSELVES AFTER THEIR MANNER_] This was done according to
the _rites_ of that barbarous religion; if the blood of th...
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Elijah’s scorn roused the Baal-priests to greater exertions. At
length, when the frenzy had reached its height, knives were drawn, and
the blood spirted forth from hundreds of self-inflicted wounds, w...
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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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LANCETS. lances. Done by Dervishes to the present day....
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_And they cried aloud_ Not recognizing the mockery of Elijah, but
admitting that Baal might be overtaken by the necessities or
occupations implied in the prophet's words.
_after their manner_ For dev...
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CUT THEMSELVES AFTER THEIR MANNER, &C.— A strange method, one would
think, to obtain the favour of their gods! And yet, if we look into
antiquity, we shall find, that nothing was more common in the
re...
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B. THE DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTEST 18:21-40
The story of the contest on Carmel is one that has excited the
imagination of believers through the centuries. The narrative is
somewhat lengthy and may for...
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_AND THEY CRIED ALOUD, AND CUT THEMSELVES AFTER THEIR MANNER WITH
KNIVES AND LANCETS, TILL THE BLOOD GUSHED OUT UPON THEM._
Cut themselves ... with knives and lancets - (see Grotius.) [The
scenes of...
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CUT THEMSELVES] Gashing the body was frequently practised by the
votaries of heathen deities, probably for the purpose of making a
'blood covenant' between themselves and the god they worshipped.
LAN...
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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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LANCETS — should be _lances._ This self-mutilation, common in
Oriental frenzy, was possibly a portion, or a survival, of human
sacrifice, in the notion that self-torture and shedding of human blood
mu...
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וַֽ יִּקְרְאוּ֙ בְּ קֹ֣ול גָּדֹ֔ול וַ
יִּתְגּ
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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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_Blood. Strange infatuation! which has nevertheless prevailed in many
pagan mysteries and countries. Thus were Bellona, Cybele, the Syrian
goddess, &c., honoured and appeased. (Calmet) --- God prohibi...
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(25) And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock
for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the
name of your gods, but put no fire under. (26) And they took...
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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 THEY CRIED ALOUD,.... Trying to make him hear, if possible:
AND CUT THEMSELVES AFTER THEIR MANNER WITH KNIVES AND LANCETS, TILL
THE BLOOD GUSHED OUT UPON THEM; so the priests of Heathen deities u...
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And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with
knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Ver. 28. _And they cried aloud, and cut themselves._] To their _vocis
intenti...
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_They cried aloud_ They were so far from being convinced and put to
shame by the just reproach which Elijah cast upon them, that it made
them the more earnest and violent in their proceedings, and ind...
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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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THE BLOOD GUSHED OUT UPON THEM:
_ Heb._ poured out blood upon them...
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21-40 Many of the people wavered in their judgment, and varied in
their practice. Elijah called upon them to determine whether Jehovah
or Baal was the self-existent, supreme God, the Creator, Governo...
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THEY CRIED ALOUD; as if Elijah had spoken the truth, and their god
needed rousing. CUT THEMSELVES; mingling their own blood with their
sacrifices; as knowing by experience, that nothing was more accep...
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1 Kings 18:28 cried H7121 (H8799) aloud H6963 H1419 cut H1413 (H8704)
custom H4941 knives H2719 lances...
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THE CONTEST ON MOUNT CARMEL: YHWH VERSUS BAAL (1 KINGS 18:21).
In this vivid description of the contest on Mount Carmel Ahab is
deliberately not mentioned. This was because it was not a contest
betwee...
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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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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 18:28 CUT THEMSELVES. The desperate attempt
to manipulate Baal into action involves self-mutilation.
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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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Deuteronomy 14:1; Leviticus 19:28; Micah 6:7; Mark 5:5; Mark 9:22...
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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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Cut themselves — Mingling their own blood with their sacrifices; as
knowing by experience, that nothing was more acceptable to their Baal
(who was indeed the devil) than human blood; and hoping thereb...