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Verse 1 Kings 18:10. _THERE IS NO NATION OR KINGDOM_] He had sent
through all his own states and to the neighbouring governments to find
out the prophet, as he knew, from his own declaration, that bot...
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THERE IS NO NATION ... - This is expressed in the style of Oriental
hyperbole. What Obadiah means is: “there is no nation nor kingdom,
of those over which he has influence, whither the king has not
se...
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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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GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....
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_there is no nation or kingdom_ Of course Obadiah's words only apply
to those countries immediately around Israel and into which Elijah
could be supposed to have fled for refuge. But he employs the la...
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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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_AND HE ANSWERED HIM, I AM: GO, TELL THY LORD, BEHOLD, ELIJAH IS
HERE._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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THERE is NO NATION. — This unremitting search — implying perhaps
some supremacy or authority over neighbouring kingdoms — suits ill
with the half-hearted enmity of Ahab. _No_ doubt it was the work of...
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חַ֣י ׀ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ אִם ־יֶשׁ
־גֹּ֤וי ו
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ELIJAH AND AHAB
1 Kings 18:1
"Return, oh backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.
Behold, we come unto Thee; for Thou art Jehovah our God. Truly in vain
is salvation hoped for from t...
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BEHOLD, ELIJAH!
1 Kings 18:1
“The word of the Lord came” to Elijah on four successive
occasions- 1 Kings 17:2; 1 Kings 17:8; 1 Kings 18:1
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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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An oath of every kingdom, adjuring all his neighbours to tell if they
knew any thing about Elias. (Haydock) --- Achab wished to make him
restore rain, or to punish him for the refusal. (Calmet) --- Ho...
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(2) And Elijah went to shew himself unto Habakkuk. And there was a
sore famine in Samaria. (3) And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the
governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly: (4) F...
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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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AS THE LORD THY GOD LIVETH,.... Which is the form of an oath he
thought fit to make, to ascertain the truth of what he was about to
say:
THERE IS NO NATION OR KINGDOM, WHITHER MY LORD HATH NOT SENT T...
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1 Kings 18:10 [As] the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or
kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they
said, [He is] not [there]; he took an oath of the kingdom and natio...
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_What have I sinned_, &c. Wherein have I so offended God, and thee his
prophet, that thou shouldest inflict this punishment upon me, and thus
expose me to certain ruin? For that he concluded would be...
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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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As the Lord, thy God, liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, namely,
of those in the entire neighborhood, WHITHER MY LORD HATH NOT SENT TO
SEEK THEE, for such was his bitterness against the prophet; A...
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ELIJAH REPROVES AHAB...
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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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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...
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THERE IS NO NATION OR KINGDOM, to wit, near to his own, where he could
in reason think that Elijah had hid himself. Nothing is more frequent
than to understand general expressions with such limitation...
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1 Kings 18:10 LORD H3068 God H430 lives H2416 no H3426 nation H1471
kingdom H4467 where H834 master H113 sent...
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“ As YHWH your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where my
lord has not sent to seek you. And when they said, ‘He is not here,'
he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they had not foun...
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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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_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...
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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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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...
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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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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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No nation — Near his own, where he could in reason think that Elijah
had hid himself. It does not appear, that Ahab sought him, in order to
put him to death: but rather in hopes of prevailing upon him...