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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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_do as thou hast said_ i.e. Set about preparing bread from the meal
which remains, but instead of taking first for yourselves, bring what
is first ready to me.
_and bring_it [R.V. adds FORTH] _unto me...
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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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_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 WAT...
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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 יֹּ֨אמֶר אֵלֶ֤יהָ אֵלִיָּ֨הוּ֙ אַל
־תִּ֣ירְאִ֔י...
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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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_First. He puts the faith of the widow to a severe trial; and the
gospel requires nothing more perfect than what she practised. The true
faith, which she then received, was her first and most precious...
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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 ELIJAH SAID UNTO HER, FEAR NOT,.... That she and her son should
die, it would not be the case:
GO AND DO AS THOU HAST SAID: mix her meal and her oil, and make a cake
thereof, and bake it:
BUT MA...
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And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go [and] do as thou hast said: but
make me thereof a little cake first, and bring [it] unto me, and after
make for thee and for thy son.
Ver. 13. _But make me ther...
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_Make me thereof a little cake first_ This he requires as a trial of
her faith, charity, and obedience, which he knew God would graciously
and plentifully reward; and so this would be a great example...
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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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ELIJAH IN ZAREPHATH...
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And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said; but
make me thereof a little cake first and bring it unto me, and after
make for thee and for thy son. To the word of comfort was added...
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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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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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MAKE ME THEREOF A LITTLE CAKE FIRST; which he requires as a trial and
exercise of her faith, and charity, and obedience, which he knew God
would graciously and plentifully reward; and so this would be...
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1 Kings 17:13 Elijah H452 said H559 (H8799) fear H3372 (H8799) go H935
(H8798) do H6213 ...
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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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_Make me thereof a little cake first._
FAITH TESTED
First, take the narrative in its literal sense; then, examine the
truths which are suggested by it; and finally, note its mystical
import.
I. Lit...
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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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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 17:13 FIRST MAKE ME A LITTLE CAKE. Against
all parental instinct, the woman is asked to give Elijah something to
eat, even before feeding herself and her SON. This would be a g...
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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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1 Peter 1:7; 2 Chronicles 20:17; 2 Kings 6:16; Acts 27:24; Exodus 14:
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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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But make, &c. — This he requires as a trial of her faith, and
obedience, which he knew God would plentifully reward; and so this
would be a great example to encourage others to the practice of the
sam...