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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

1 Kings 18:4

for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, for it had been her aim, from the start, to abolish the worship of Jehovah in Israel, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, members of the prophets' schools or societies which had been in existence since the time of Samuel, and hid them by fifty in a cave, probably in two caverns, in the hills of Ephraim, and fed them with bread and water.)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Kings 18:4. _FED THEM WITH BREAD AND WATER._] By these are signified the necessaries of life, of whatsoever kind....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    We have no details of Jezebel’s deed of blood. Some have conjectured that it was the answer of Jezebel to Elijah’s threat, and that the command given him to hide in Cherith alone saved him from being...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    JEZEBEL. The first record of using the civil power against the true religion (and by. woman). See note on Judges 4:21. FIFTY IN. CAVE. fifty men....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord_ Not content with having Baal-worship established and fostered by her husband, the queen determined to destroy all the worshippers of Jehovah, and probably sh...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    CUT OFF THE PROPHETS] Nothing is related of this beyond what is implied in 1 Kings 19:10....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    JEZEBEL CUT OFF THE PROPHETS. — The persecution here referred to, in which for the first time the royal power was placed in distinct antagonism to the prophetic order, is only known by this allusion....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְהִי֙ בְּ הַכְרִ֣ית אִיזֶ֔בֶל אֵ֖ת נְבִיא

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR IT WAS SO, WHEN JEZEBEL CUT OFF THE PROPHETS OF THE LORD,.... Or slew them, as the Targum; put them to death some way or another; such as were brought up in the schools of the prophets, trained up...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For it was [so], when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) Ver. 4. _When Jezebel cut o...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _When Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord_ The name of prophets was not only given to such as were endowed with an extraordinary spirit of prophecy, but to such ministers of religion as devoted t...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    JEZEBEL: _ Heb._ Izebel...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-16 The severest judgments, of themselves, will not humble or change the hearts of sinners; nothing, except the blood of Jesus Christ, can atone for the guilt of sin; nothing, except the sanctifying...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    PROPHETS: this name is not only given to such as are endowed with an extraordinary spirit of prophecy, but to such ministers as devoted themselves to the service of God in preaching, praying, praising...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 18:4 Jezebel H348 massacred H3772 (H8687) prophets H5030 LORD H3068 Obadiah H5662 taken H3947 (H8799) hundred

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    1 Kings 18:3 I. All we know of Obadiah is contained in this chapter, and yet he was a great man in his day. He was, it seems, king Ahab's vizier, or prime minister, the first man in the country after...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Go, show thyself unto Ahab._ AHAB, OBADIAH, AND ELIJAH;- What are the general lessons as affecting Ahab, Obadiah, and Elijah? 1. It is possible for a man to be very bad in one direction and very t...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    ELIJAH’S CONTEST WITH AHAB AND BAAL CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 18:1. _After_ MANY DAYS … IN THE THIRD YEAR—in Luke 4:25, James 5:17, the drought is said to have lastes for the space of...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 13:16; 1 Kings 13:8; 1 Kings 13:9; 1 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 6:22

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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