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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

1 Kings 19:8

And went — 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. Thither the spirit of the Lord led him, probably beyond his own intention, that he might have communion with God, in the same place that Moses had.

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See also 1 Kings 19:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Kings 19:8. _FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS_] So he fasted just the same time as Moses did at Horeb, and as Christ did in the wilderness....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The old commentators generally understood this to mean that Elijah had no other food at all, and compared this long fast with that of Moses and that of our Lord (marginal references). But the words do...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. ELIJAH IN THE WILDERNESS AND UPON MOUNT HOREB CHAPTER 19 _ 1. Elijah's flight and despondency (1 Kings 19:1)_ 2. Upon Mount Horeb (1 Kings 19:9) 3. Elisha called (1 Kings 19:10) Elijah

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    1 Kings 19:1. ELIJAH'S FLIGHT TO HOREB. HIS COMMISSION. Jezebel, it will be noticed, can do no more than threaten Elijah: her power is limited. Elijah escapes to the southern extremity of Judah, to Be...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FORTY. The number of Probation. See App-10. HOREB. About 180 miles....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _in the strength of that meat_ As Moses had been forty days on Sinai and had taken no food with him, so now Elijah, who was to be in many ways a counterpart of Moses, is divinely sustained by the food...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WENT IN THE STRENGTH OF THAT MEAT FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS— From Beer-sheba to mount Horeb is at the most not above a hundred and fifty miles, and the prophet, it seems, had advanced one day's jour...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    I. THE GREAT SPIRITUAL CRISIS 19:1-21 In view of the triumph on Carmel, one might expect to read in chapter 19 about a great religious reformation in Israel. Such is not the case. Not until the extirp...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND HE AROSE, AND DID EAT AND DRINK, AND WENT IN THE STRENGTH OF THAT MEAT FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS UNTO HOREB THE MOUNT OF GOD._ He ... did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat f...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ELIJAH AT HOREB 2. Then Jezebel sent, etc.] Her religious feelings as a votary of Baal and her dignity as the queen had both been outraged by the prophet, and she at once sought revenge....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HOREB] i.e. Sinai. The forty days and forty nights are not to be taken as a measure of the distance of Horeb from the prophet's starting-point (1 Kings 19:3), for this (about 180 m.) could be traverse...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 19 GOD SPEAKS TO ELIJAH AT *MOUNT SINAI V1 Ahab told Jezebel everything that Elijah had done. He also told her that Elijah had killed al...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS. — Unless this time includes, as has been supposed by some, the whole journey to and from Horeb, and the sojourn there, it is far in excess of what would be recorded for a...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּ֖קָם וַ יֹּ֣אכַל וַ יִּשְׁתֶּ֑ה וַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    HOW GOD DEALS WITH DESPONDENCY 1 Kings 19:5 "Why art thou so vexed, O my soul? and why art thou so disquieted within me? O put thy trust in God; for I will yet praise Him who is the health of my cou...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    ELIJAH'S DESPAIR 1 Kings 19:4 "So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself, My race of glory run, and race of shame, A...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

    The slaughter of the prophets of Baal aroused the ire of Jezebel to such a degree that she sent a direct message full of fury to Elijah. There is no escaping the sadness of his attitude on receiving t...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _In the strength of that food, &c. This bread with which Elias was fed in the wilderness, was a figure of the bread of life, which we receive in the blessed sacrament [of the Eucharist]: by the streng...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (5) And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat. (6) And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse...

  • 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

    Until now the prophet had stood before Jehovah (1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:15) and had spoken in His name; but now, terrified by the threats of Jezebel, he flees from the dangers of the place into which...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND HE AROSE, AND DID EAT AND DRINK,.... Of what was left of the cake and cruse of water, before provided for him: AND WENT IN THE STRENGTH OF THAT MEAT FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS UNTO HOREB THE MOU...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God. Ver. 8. _And he arose, and did eat and drink._] Let us do the like...

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

    _He went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights _ Observe here, how many different ways God took to keep Elijah alive: he was fed by ravens, by a miraculous increase of meal and oil,...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Eliiah threatned by Iezebel, fleeth to Beersheba, 4 In the wildernesse being wearie of his life, is comforted by an Angel. 9 At Horeb God appeareth vnto him, sending him to anoint Hazael, Iehu, an...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ELIJAH FLEES BEFORE JEZEBEL...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat, food which had been given supernatural powers of sustaining strength, FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS UNTO HOREB, the mount of G...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    ELIJAH FLEEING FROM JEZEBEL (vs.1-10) When Ahab informed his wife Jezebel of Elijah's having brought down the fire of God to consume his sacrifice, of the slaughter of the prophets of Baal and the an...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-8 Jezebel sent Elijah a threatening message. Carnal hearts are hardened and enraged against God, by that which should convince and conquer them. Great faith is not always alike strong. He might be...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 19:8 arose H6965 (H8799) ate H398 (H8799) drank H8354 (H8799) went H3212 (H8799) strength...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    DEPRESSED AT WHAT APPEARED TO BE FAILURE ELIJAH FLEES TO THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD IN HOREB (SINAI) AND IS SUSTAINED AND RECOMMISSIONED BY YHWH (1 KINGS 19:1). Exultant because the battle appeared almost wo...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    1 Kings 19:8 I. It was no wonder that after such a day as that on Carmel, so glorious and so exciting, there should be a violent reaction affecting the whole system of a man. It was no wonder that the...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: God's care of His overwrought prophet. Call of Elisha. CHARACTERS: God, Elijah, Jezebel, Elisha. CONCLUSION: Even though we faint in our faith, God abideth faithful. The best thing for a d...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Kings 19:2. _Jezebel_ swore to destroy Elijah. Ahab would perhaps have received the prophet as his monitor and guide, had it not been for this woman, now given over to a reprobate mind. 1 Kings 19:1...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And went in the strength of that meal forty days._ ELIJAH’S REPAST I. The prophet’s repast. 1. The sacramental feast is alike simple and plain. 2. Yet is this a mysterious repast. II. The peculi...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 19:1 Elijah has won a mighty battle on the mountain, but a stronger opponent than Ahab awaits him: Queen Jezebel. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 19:8 HE AROSE... AND WENT... TO HOREB, THE MOUNT OF GOD. Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai, where God first spoke the Ten Commandments to the people of Israel ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    ELIJAH DEJECTED, REPROVED, AND ENCOURAGED CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 19:2. SO LET THE GODS DO TO ME—The pl. אֱלֹהִימ is used commonly for GOD, Jehovah; but here appears for Jezebel’s i...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ELIJAH'S FLIGHT THE THEOPHANY OF HOREB AND THE CALLING OF ELISHA.—We can readily understand with what a sense of humiliation and shame the weak and excited king, who must have been awed and...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So Ahab told his wife Jezebel the whole story of what had happened, what Elijah did, and how he killed all of her prophets with the sword. And Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, and she said, So let...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 12:9; Daniel 1:15; Deuteronomy 9:18; Deuteronomy 9:9;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    ELIJAH FLEEING FOR HIS LIFE 1 Kings 19:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The story of the slaughter of the prophets of Baal. The people fell on their faces as soon as they saw that God consumed the sacrifice...

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