1 KINGS 17-19. These Chapter s come from another source, which relates
the adventures of the great prophet Elijah. They are rightly reckoned
among the finest pieces of prose writing in the OT. They ab...
_ELIJAH, BEING HID, IS FED BY RAVENS: HE GOES TO A WIDOW WOMAN OF
ZAREPHAH, WHOSE OIL AND MEAL FAIL NOT, TILL GOD SENDS RAIN: HE RAISES
HER DEAD SON TO LIFE._
_Before Christ 909._...
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
YAHWEH VS. BAAL
1 Kings 17-18
Even a superficial survey of the narratives in the final Chapter s of
I Kings and the opening Chapter s of 2Kings reveals that the materials
here are qu...
XVII.
With this chapter begins the third section of the book, marked by a
complete change in the character of the history. Drawn evidently not
from official annals, but from records of the lives of th...
INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 17
This chapter begins with a prophecy of Elijah, that there should be
want of rain for some years to come, and he is directed to go first to
the brook Cherith, where he shoul...
_A.M. 3094. B.C. 910._
Elijah foretels the drought, 1 Kings 17:1. Is fed by ravens, 1 Kings
17:2. By a widow, whose meal and oil are multiplied, 1 Kings 17:8. He
raises her dead son,...
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 ...