1Ki 17:1-12, 18:2, 2Ki 8:1-2, Psa 105:16, 107:34, Jer 14:1 | TSK | STEP | Elijah, having prophesied against Ahab, is sent to Cherith where the ravens feed him. He is sent to the widow of Zarephath. He raises the widow's son. The woman believes him. A.M. 3094. B.C. 910. Elijah. Heb. Elijahu. Elias. As the Lord God. before whom. dew nor rain.

19:9; Pr 3:5; Mt 16:24; Joh 15:14Many learned men have raised doubts on those parts of the Inspired Word, which may, by the perverseness of their argument and the ingenuity of their surmise, be made to appear inconsistent with fact. In this case, they are not satisfied with being expressly told by God that the ravens supplied Elijah with food, while the brook gave him drink, but apparently to mystify a manifest miracle, they suggest whether these ravens might not be merchantmen, or the inhabitants of a neighbouring town. Let any unprejudiced reader and lover of the Bible take the whole history of Elijah, and he will find that his life was almost a daily illustration of the power of God in his miraculous interpositions. Instance the supply of provision in the unwasting barrel of meal and cruse of oil, after the prophet had removed to Zarephath: the power communicated to him to raise the widow's son from death: the wonderful interposition of the Lord to prove the folly of Baal's worshippers, in sending down fire from heaven to consume Elijah's sacrifice and lick up the water, although the sacrifice had been saturated therewith, and the altar surrounded by a deep trench to prevent its running away. The prayer for rain is another instance: the sojourn in Horeb forty days and forty nights, after having eaten of the cake: the destruction of Ahaziah's messengers twice: the smiting of the waters at Jordan: the fall of the mantle on Elisha: and finally, in the closing scene of life, he was taken to glory without tasting the pains of death, the sting was taken away.

the ravens.

Ex 16:35; Nu 11:23; Jud 14:14; 15:18,19; Ps 34:9,10; 37:3,19

Ps 78:15,16,23,24; Isa 33:16; Jer 37:21; 40:4; Hab 3:17,18

Mt 6:31-33; 14:19-21; 19:26; Lu 22:35; Heb 6:18; 13:5,6

A.M. 3095. B.C. 909. after a while. Heb. at the end ofdays. the brook.

Isa 40:30,31; 54:10

the word.

2; Ge 22:14; Isa 41:17; Heb 13:6

Zarephath.

Ob 1:20; Lu 4:26

Sarepta. which belongeth.

Mt 15:21,22

widow woman.

4; Jud 7:2,4; Ro 4:17-21; 2Co 4:7

Fetch me.

Ge 21:15; 24:17; Joh 4:7; 2Co 11:27; Heb 11:37

as she was going.

Ge 24:18,19; Mt 10:42; 25:35-40; Heb 13:2

a morsel.

9; 18:4; Ge 18:5

As the Lord.

1; 1Sa 14:39,45; 20:3,21; 25:26; 26:10; 2Sa 15:21; Jer 4:2; 5:2

but an handful.

2Ki 4:2-7; Mt 15:33,34

that we may eat it.

Ge 21:16; Jer 14:18; La 4:9; Eze 12:18,19; Joe 1:15,16

‏ 1 Kings 18:2

went to shew.

Ps 27:1; 51:4; Pr 28:1; Isa 51:12; Heb 13:5,6

a sore.

Le 26:26; De 28:23,24; 2Ki 6:25; Jer 14:2-6,18; Joe 1:15-20

‏ 2 Kings 8:1-2

1 The Shunammite, having left her country seven years, to avoid the forewarned famine, for Elisha's miracle's sake has her land restored by the king.

7 Hazael, being sent with a present by Ben-hadad to Elisha at Damascus, after he had heard the prophecy, kills his master, and succeeds him.

16 Jehoram's wicked reign in Judah.

20 Edom and Libnah revolt.

23 Ahaziah succeeds Jehoram.

25 Ahaziah's wicked reign.

28 He visits Joram, being wounded, at Jezreel.

A.M. 3113. B.C. 891. whose son.

4:18,31-35

sojourn.

Ge 12:10; 26:1; 47:4; Ru 1:1

the Lord.

Ge 41:25,28,32; Le 26:19,20,26; De 28:22-24,38-40; 1Ki 17:1; 18:2

Ps 105:16; 107:34; Hag 1:11; Lu 21:11,22; Ac 11:28

called for a famine.

Jer 25:29

seven years.

Ge 41:27; 2Sa 21:1; 24:13; Lu 4:25

with.

1Ti 5:8

land.

Jud 3:3; 1Sa 27:1-3

‏ Psalms 105:16

Moreover.

Ge 41:25-32,54; 42:5,6; 2Ki 8:1; Am 3:6; 7:1-4; Hag 1:10,11; 2:17

Mt 8:8,9; Re 6:8

brake.

104:15; Ge 47:13,19; Le 26:26; Isa 3:1; Eze 4:16; Ac 7:11

‏ Psalms 107:34

a fruitful.

Ge 13:10,13; 19:25; De 29:23-28; Isa 32:13-15

barrenness. Heb. saltness.

Ge 14:3; Eze 47:11

‏ Jeremiah 14:1

1 The grievous famine,

7 causes Jeremiah to pray.

10 The Lord will not be intreated for the people.

13 Lying prophets are no excuse for them.

17 Jeremiah is moved to complain for them.

A.M. 3399. B.C. 605. The word.This discourse is supposed to have been delivered after the fourth year of Jehoiakim. The Hebrew {batzaroth,} rendered dearth, signifies restraint, that is, "when the heaven is shut up that there is no rain;" which Houbigant thinks happened early in the reign of Zedekiah.

the dearth. Heb. the words of the dearths, or restraints.

17:8