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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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_Let them therefore give us_ i.e. Let there be given unto us. Let
there be provided, for the trial which I am about to propose.
_and let them choose one_ Elijah yields place to them because of their...
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B. THE DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTEST 18:21-40
The story of the contest on Carmel is one that has excited the
imagination of believers through the centuries. The narrative is
somewhat lengthy and may for...
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_LET THEM THEREFORE GIVE US TWO BULLOCKS; AND LET THEM CHOOSE ONE
BULLOCK FOR THEMSELVES, AND CUT IT IN PIECES, AND LAY IT ON WOOD, AND
PUT NO FIRE UNDER: AND I WILL DRESS THE OTHER BULLOCK, AND LAY I...
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18:23 sacrifice (a-34) 'Do;' so vers. 25,26, as Deuteronomy 12:27 ....
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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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וְ יִתְּנוּ ־לָ֜נוּ שְׁנַ֣יִם
פָּרִ֗ים וְ יִב
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ELIJAH ON MOUNT CARMEL
1 Kings 18:20
"O for a sculptor's hand, That thou might'st take thy stand, Thy wild
hair floating in the eastern breeze!"
- KEBLE
IT never occurred to Ahab to refuse the chal...
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THE GOD THAT ANSWERETH NOT
1 Kings 18:16
“The God that answereth by fire, let Him be God.” We are thrilled
as we read these words. Our altars stand unkindled, our sacrifices are
unconsumed, our churc...
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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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(22) Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a
prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty
men. (23) Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choo...
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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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LET THEM THEREFORE GIVE US TWO BULLOCKS,.... Who, being so many, were
better able to be at the expense of them, and having the king on their
party too; though perhaps no more is meant than that two bu...
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Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one
bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay [it] on wood,
and put no fire [under]: and I will dress the other bullock, and la...
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_Let them therefore give us two bullocks_ He proposes to decide the
controversy, not by God's word, because that was either despised and
rejected, or grossly neglected, and therefore unknown and of no...
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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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Let them therefore give us two bullocks, in order that the issue might
be publicly decided; AND LET THEM, the priests of Baal, CHOOSE ONE
BULLOCK FOR THEMSELVES, AND CUT IT IN PIECES, AND LAY IT ON WO...
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ELIJAH SLAYS THE PROPHETS OF BAAL...
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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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21-40 Many of the people wavered in their judgment, and varied in
their practice. Elijah called upon them to determine whether Jehovah
or Baal was the self-existent, supreme God, the Creator, Governo...
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He attempts the decision of this controversy, not by God's word, which
was either rejected, or despised, or grossly neglected by the
generality of that people; but by a miracle, to which all that had...
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THE CONTEST ON MOUNT CARMEL: YHWH VERSUS BAAL (1 KINGS 18:21).
In this vivid description of the contest on Mount Carmel Ahab is
deliberately not mentioned. This was because it was not a contest
betwee...
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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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_Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto Mount Carmel._
THE PRIESTS OF BAAL
Mendelssohn has wrought the harmonies and discords of this scene into
a grand oratorio, and the painter or poe...
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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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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 18:19. PROPHETS OF BAAL, &c.—Soothsayers and oracle
príests. GROVES—Asherah. Baal and Astarte were the male and female
divinities. Jezebel was the patroness o...
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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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Let then, &c. — To put this controversy to a short issue....