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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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DISCOURSE: 343
THE WIDOW’S SON RAISED BY ELIJAH
1 Kings 17:22. _And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul
of the child came into him again, and he revived. And Elijah took the
child, and b...
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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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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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וַ יִּקַּ֨ח אֵלִיָּ֜הוּ אֶת ־הַ
יֶּ֗לֶד וַ
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NEW LIFE FOR THE DEAD
1 Kings 17:17
It must have been a severe trial to Elijah's faith, first to note the
gradual diminishing of the brook; then the abject poverty of the woman
to whom he was directe...
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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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(19) And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her
bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him
upon his own bed. (20) And he cried unto the LORD, and said,...
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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 ELIJAH TOOK THE CHILD, AND BROUGHT HIM DOWN OUT OF THE CHAMBER
INTO THE HOUSE,.... Being come to life, he took it off of the bed in
his bedchamber, and brought it down to the lower part of the hou...
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And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber
into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said,
See, thy son liveth.
Ver. 23. _And delivered him unto his mother...
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_Elijah said, See, thy son liveth_ And see the power of prayer, and
the power of him that hears and answers prayer, that kills and makes
alive. _The woman said, Now by this I know that thou art a man...
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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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THE DEAD BOY RESTORED TO LIFE...
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And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber
into the house, into the main part of the house, AND DELIVERED HIM
UNTO HIS MOTHER. AND ELIJAH SAID, SEE, THY SON LIVETH....
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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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17-24 Neither faith nor obedience shut out afflictions and death. The
child being dead, the mother spake to the prophet, rather to give vent
to her sorrow, than in hope of relief. When God removes ou...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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1 Kings 17:23 Elijah H452 took H3947 (H8799) child H3206 down H3381
(H8686) room H5944 house H1004 gave...
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ELIJAH RAISES THE WIDOW'S SON TO LIFE (1 KINGS 17:17).
In this final miracle God reveals His power of life and death. Sadly
many people would have been dying in the area at the time because of
the fam...
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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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_And it came to pass after these things._
THE TEST OF THE HOME-LIFE
Many a man might bear himself as a hero and saint in the solitudes of
Cherith, or on the heights of Carmel, and yet wretchedly fail...
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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 17:17. FELL SICK … NO BREATH LEFT IN HIM—This phrase does
not absolutely imply _death_ (comp. Daniel 10:17; also 1 Kings 10:17).
Josephus renders the incident...
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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 Kings 4:36; 2 Kings 4:37; Acts 9:41; Hebrews 11:35; Luke 7:15...
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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...