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IV. THE PROPHET ELIJAH AND KING AHAB
1. Elijah's Prediction and Miracles
CHAPTER 17
_ 1. Elijah's message to Ahab (1 Kings 17:1)_
2. At the brook Cherith (1 Kings 17:2)
3. With the widow of Zarep...
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ELIJAH IS FED BY RAVENS, AND RAISES THE WIDOW'S SON. Elijah appeared
suddenly: we hear nothing of his birth or parentage. He simply
announced to Ahab, in the name of Yahweh, before whom I stand (_cf._...
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_her house_ She had enough for all their own needs and something over,
which she could give to poorer relations. The whole history of the
woman shews that she knew much of the religion of the God of I...
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DISCOURSE: 342
ELIJAH AND THE WIDOW OF SAREPTA
1 Kings 17:15. _And she went and did according to the saying of
Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. And the
barrel of meal wasted...
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C. ELIJAH AT ZAREPHATH 17:8-24
As the water supply at Cherith began to fail, God instructed Elijah to
leave the land of Israel and journey to the Phoenician village of
Zarephath. Two great miraculous...
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_AND SHE WENT AND DID ACCORDING TO THE SAYING OF ELIJAH: AND SHE, AND
HE, AND HER HOUSE, DID EAT MANY DAYS._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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ELIJAH AND THE WIDOW OF ZAREPHATH
The prophet Elijah, who occupies so large a space in the succeeding
history, is, like his successor Elisha, conspicuous among the
prophetic figures of the OT. as a wo...
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GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY
1 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 17
ELIJAH THE *PROPHET
V1 Now Elijah from Tishbe in Gilead spoke to Ahab. ‘I promise this
in the name of the *Lord because he is definit...
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THE BARREL OF MEAL WASTED NOT. — The miracle is doubly remarkable.
First, in this instance, as in the similar miracles of Elisha and of
our Lord Himself, we see that God’s higher laws of miracle, like...
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וַ תֵּ֥לֶךְ וַ תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה כִּ דְבַ֣ר
אֵלִיָּ֑
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THE JAR OF MEAL THAT WASTED NOT
1 Kings 17:8
Even at Cherith we cannot be exempt from trial, and it is hard to sit
beside a gradually dwindling brook. But God always provides. None of
them that trust...
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Here began a new order, the prophetic. Of course there had been
prophets before, but with the coming of Elijah the office was elevated
to national importance. From this point onwards, in the economy o...
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And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and
he, and her house, did eat (h) [many] days.
(h) That is, till he had rain and food on the earth....
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(10) So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate
of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks:
and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little...
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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 SHE WENT, AND DID ACCORDING TO THE SAYING OF ELIJAH,..... Made a
cake for him first, and brought it to him, which showed great faith in
the word of the Lord by him:
AND SHE, AND HE, AND HER HOUSE...
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And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and
he, and her house, did eat [many] days.
Ver. 15. _And her house._] Which till now we read not of, more than of
a son only. See on...
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_She did according to the saying of Elijah_ Giving glory to the God of
Israel, by believing his prophet. _O woman, great was thy faith!_ One
has not found the like, _no not in Israel._ All things cons...
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1 Elijah hauing prophecied against Ahab, is sent to Cherith, where the
rauens feed him.
8 He is sent to the widow of Zarephath.
17 Hee raiseth the widowes sonne.
24 The woman beleeueth him.
1 AND ...
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And she, with a faith which would scarcely hare been found in Israel,
WENT AND DID ACCORDING TO THE SAYING OF ELIJAH. AND SHE AND HE AND HER
HOUSE, including not only her son, but such other relatives...
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ELIJAH IN ZAREPHATH...
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ELIJAH PROPHESIES A DROUGHT
(vs.1-7)
Ahab was suddenly confronted by a prophet who had never been mentioned
before, Elijah the Tishbite, the first prophet of God spoken of as
arising from among the t...
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MANY DAYS:
Or, a full year...
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8-16 Many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, and some, it is
likely, would have bidden him welcome to their houses; yet he is sent
to honour and bless with his presence a city of Sidon, a Ge...
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SHE DID ACCORDING TO THE SAYING OF ELIJAH; giving glory to the God of
Israel, by believing his prophet. MANY DAYS, i.e. a long time, even
above two years: see 1 KINGS 18:1. Heb. _days_, i.e. _a full y...
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1 Kings 17:15 went H3212 (H8799) did H6213 (H8799) word H1697 Elijah
H452 household H1004 ate H398 ...
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YHWH MAKES PROVISION FOR ELIJAH WITH A WIDOW OF ZAREPHATH (1 KINGS
17:8).
The water in the Wadi Cherith having almost dried up, God now directed
Elijah to go to Zarephath, where He would arrange for a...
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CONTENTS: Elijah's ministry and prediction of drought. Elijah fed.
Raising of the widow's son.
CHARACTERS: God, Elijah, Ahab, Sarephath woman, her son.
CONCLUSION: God can wonderfully raise up serva...
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1 Kings 17:1. _Elijah the Tishbite._ His parentage is not named, but
the Jews call him a levite or a priest. He swore to Ahab in the name,
not of Baal, but of Jehovah. As the Lord had promised
covenan...
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_She went and did according to the saying of Elijah._
MODERN LIBERALITY, AND THE WIDOW OF ZAREPHATH
I. The treatment he received was verily the manifestation of the
woman’s mind towards god himself....
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TRUST AND GET THE BLESSING
She went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he,
and her house, did eat many days. 1 Kings 17:15.
During World War I and World War II, food was so scar...
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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 17:1 Elijah and Ahab. Other prophets had
addressed earlier kings (see 1 Kings 14:7;...
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 17:9. ZAREPHATH, WHICH BELONGETH TO ZIDON—_Sarepta_, situate
between Tyre and Sidon, in the native land of Jezebel. Yet this
“widow” knew JEHOVAH (1 Kings 17:...
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EXPOSITION
ELIJAH AND THE GREAT DROUGHT.—The picture which the historian has
just drawn of the shameless idolatry and the gross degeneracy of the
earlier part of Ahab's reign forms a fit prelude to an...
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By Chuck Smith
Let's turn to the First Kings, chapter seventeen.
The seventeenth chapter of First Kings introduces us now to a very
interesting character, Elijah the Tishbite, whatever Tishbite means....
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2 Chronicles 20:20; Genesis 12:4; Genesis 22:3; Genesis 6:22; H
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JEHOVAH-JIREH
_Selections from 1 Kings 17:1_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
Our God is the God who is enough. There is no good thing which He
withholds from them who walk uprightly. Our God is able to make all...
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Many days — A long time, even above two years, before the following
event about her son happened. And surely the increase of her faith to
such a degree, as to enable her thus to deny herself and trust...