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Verse 1 Kings 18:5. _UNTO ALL FOUNTAINS OF WATER_] All marshy or
well-watered districts, where grass was most likely to be preserved....
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UNTO ALL FOUNTAINS OF WATER AND UNTO ALL BROOKS - Rather, “to all
springs of water and to all torrent-courses.” The former are the
perennial streams; the latter are the torrent-courses which become dr...
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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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_Go into_[R.V. THROUGH] _the land_ The change gives a clearer idea of
what is meant, and the preposition is the same which in 1 Kings 18:6
is rendered -throughout." In the next clause, as both nouns a...
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II. THE GREAT CONTEST ON CARMEL 18:1-46
Events in Israel during the years of Elijah's self-imposed exile are
not narrated in any detail. No doubt at first Jezebel and the Baal
prophets assured the peo...
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_AND AHAB SAID UNTO OBADIAH, GO INTO THE LAND, UNTO ALL FOUNTAINS OF
WATER, AND UNTO ALL BROOKS: PERADVENTURE WE MAY FIND GRASS TO SAVE THE
HORSES AND MULES ALIVE, THAT WE LOSE NOT ALL THE BEASTS._
N...
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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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וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר אַחְאָב֙ אֶל
־עֹ֣בַדְיָ֔הוּ לֵ֤ךְ...
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ELIJAH AND AHAB
1 Kings 18:1
"Return, oh backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.
Behold, we come unto Thee; for Thou art Jehovah our God. Truly in vain
is salvation hoped for from t...
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BEHOLD, ELIJAH!
1 Kings 18:1
“The word of the Lord came” to Elijah on four successive
occasions- 1 Kings 17:2; 1 Kings 17:8; 1 Kings 18:1
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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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(2) And Elijah went to shew himself unto Habakkuk. And there was a
sore famine in Samaria. (3) And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the
governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly: (4) F...
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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 AHAB SAID UNTO OBADIAH, GO INTO THE LAND, UNTO ALL FOUNTAINS OF
WATER, AND UNTO ALL BROOKS,.... To observe in what condition they
were, and the places adjoining to them, the meadows and valleys:...
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And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of
water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the
horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
Ver...
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_Go unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks_ About which
grass was most probably to be found in that great drought; _that we
lose not all the beasts_ Many, it appears, were already dead for w...
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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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And Ahab said unto Obadiah, this had taken place when the famine had
reached its most severe point, GO INTO THE LAND, making a careful
survey of the entire country, UNTO ALL FOUNTAINS, SPRINGS, OF WAT...
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ELIJAH REPROVES AHAB...
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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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LEST NOT ALL THE BEASTS:
_ Heb._ that we are not cut off ourselves from the beasts...
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1-16 The severest judgments, of themselves, will not humble or change
the hearts of sinners; nothing, except the blood of Jesus Christ, can
atone for the guilt of sin; nothing, except the sanctifying...
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UNTO ALL FOUNTAINS OF WATER, AND UNTO ALL BROOKS; about which grass
was most probably to be found in that great drought....
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1 Kings 18:5 Ahab H256 said H559 (H8799) Obadiah H5662 Go H3212
(H8798) land H776 springs H4599 water...
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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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_Go, show thyself unto Ahab._
AHAB, OBADIAH, AND ELIJAH;-
What are the general lessons as affecting Ahab, Obadiah, and Elijah?
1. It is possible for a man to be very bad in one direction and very
t...
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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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ELIJAH’S CONTEST WITH AHAB AND BAAL
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 18:1. _After_ MANY DAYS … IN THE THIRD YEAR—in Luke 4:25,
James 5:17, the drought is said to have lastes for the space of...
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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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Habakkuk 3:17; Jeremiah 14:5; Jeremiah 14:6; Joel 1:18; Joel 2:22;...
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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...