1 KINGS CHAPTER 19 Elijah, threatened by Jezebel, fleeth to Beer-sheba; is comforted by an angel, 1 KINGS 19:1. At Mount Horeb, complaining to God, he is strengthened by a special revelation, 1 KINGS 19:9; is sent to anoint Hazael, Jehu, and Elisha, 1 KINGS 19:15. Elisha followeth Elijah, 1 KINGS 19... [ Continue Reading ]
JEZEBEL SENT A MESSENGER UNTO ELIJAH; she gives him notice of it beforehand; partly, out of the height of her spirit, as scorning to kill him secretly and surreptitiously, and resolving to make him a public sacrifice; partly, out of her impatience, till she had breathed out her rage, which she could... [ Continue Reading ]
WENT FOR HIS LIFE, i.e. to save his life; or, according to his soul, or mind; whereby it may be intimated, that he did not flee from Jezreel by the hand or direction of the Lord, by which he came thither, 1 KINGS 18:46, but because of his own fear and apprehension of danger; for this may seem to be... [ Continue Reading ]
INTO THE WILDERNESS; the vast wilderness of Arabia. He durst not stay in Judah, though good Jehoshaphat reigned there, because he was allied to Ahab, and was a man of an easy temper, whom Ahab might circumvent, and either by force or art seize upon Elijah. FOR HIMSELF, Heb. _for his life, or his sou... [ Continue Reading ]
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i.e. Above thy strength, now especially when thou art faint, and weary, and fasting.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE STRENGTH OF THAT MEAT; God giving that food a far greater and more durable virtue than ordinary. UNTO HOREB: he wandered hither and thither for forty days, till at last he came to Horeb, which in the direct road was not above three or four days journey.... [ Continue Reading ]
A tacit reproof. This is not thy proper place, nor the station in which I set thee, which was in Israel, to turn that backsliding people, to which end I gave thee my help, and would have proceeded to assist thee further, if thou hadst continued there. Nor did I give thee those excellent gifts to lie... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE BEEN VERY JEALOUS FOR THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS; I have not been wholly wanting to my vocation, but have executed my office with zeal for God's honour and service, and with the hazard of my own life; and am fled hither, not being able to endure to see the dishonour done to thy name by their obsti... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD PASSED BY; either, first, by his harbingers; for, as it follows, the Lord was not yet there; or, secondly, himself. And so this is a brief and general description of the thing, after which the manner of it is particularly explained. RENT THE MOUNTAINS, AND BRAKE IN PIECES THE ROCKS; whereby... [ Continue Reading ]
Wherein it is implied that God was present; which peradventure was to insinuate, that God would do his work in and for Israel in his own time, not by might or power, but by his own Spirit, MALACHI 4:6, which moves with a powerful, but yet with a sweet and gentle gale.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE WRAPPED HIS FACE IN HIS MANTLE, through horror and dread of God's presence, being sensible that he was neither worthy nor able to endure the sight of God with open face. Compare GENESIS 16:13, with EXODUS 3:6. STOOD IN THE ENTERING IN OF THE CAVE; which God commanded him to do; and as he was goin... [ Continue Reading ]
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RETURN ON THY WAY, by which thou camest; for so in part lay the way from Horeb to Damascus. ANOINT HAZAEL TO BE KING OVER SYRIA: _anoint_; either, first, Figuratively, i.e. appoint or declare him king; which was done, 2 KINGS 8:12; for this word is oft used of them who were never anointed with oil,... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SON OF NIMSHI, i. e. his grandson, for he was the son of Jehoshaphat, 2 KINGS 9:2; he constituted ELISHA prophet, by casting his mantle over him, here, 1 KINGS 19:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
Here the order of times seems to be perverted; for Elisha was prophet before Jehu or Hazael were kings, and Hazael was king before Jehu. But that is of no moment as to the substance of the thing threatened, which is only this, that one or other of these should infallibly execute God's judgments upon... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE LEFT, or, _I have reserved to myself_; I have by my grace kept from the common contagion; therefore thou art mistaken to think that thou art left alone, or that the people are universally corrupted. Or, _I will reserve_, from the slaughters last mentioned, and from Jezebel's rage. SEVEN THOUS... [ Continue Reading ]
HE WITH THE TWELFTH; who had twelve ploughs going, whereof eleven were managed by his servants, and the last by himself; according to the simplicity and humility of those ancient times, in which men of good worth and estate submitted themselves to the meanest employments. CAST HIS MANTLE UPON HIM; b... [ Continue Reading ]
HE RAN AFTER ELIJAH; being powerfully moved by God's Spirit to follow Elijah, and wholly to give up himself to his affection. AND SAID; or, _but he said_; or, _yet he said_. LET ME KISS MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER, i.e. bid them farewell, by the usual ceremony. See GENESIS 29:11, GENESIS 31:28 ACTS 20:3... [ Continue Reading ]
HE RETURNED BACK FROM HIM; from Elijah to his parents, whom when he had seen and kissed, he returned to the field where Elijah was. WITH THE INSTRUMENTS OF THE OXEN, i.e. with the wood belonging to the plough, &c., to which more was added, as occasion required; but that he burned, to show his total... [ Continue Reading ]