Gen 41:30-31, 38, 1Ki 17:1-16, 2Ki 8:1-2 | TSK | STEP

‏ Genesis 41:30-31

seven years.

27,54; 2Sa 24:13; 1Ki 17:1; 2Ki 8:1; Lu 4:25; Jas 5:17

shall be.

consume.

the plenty.It is well known, that in Egypt there is scarcely any rain, the country depending for its fertility upon the overflowing of the Nile; and that the fertility is in proportion to the duration and quality of the overflow, in order to saturate the land and prepare for the seed. Pliny has given a scale, by which the plenty or dearth may ascertained; which may be considered as perfectly correct. The ordinary height of the inundations is 16 cubits. When the waters are lower than this standard, they do not overflow the whole ground; when above this standard they are too long in running off. In the first case, the ground is not saturated; by the second, the waters are detained so long on the ground that seed-time is lost. The province marks both. If it rise only 12 cubits, a famine is the consequence; at 13 hunger prevails; 14 produces general rejoicing; 15 perfect security; and 16 all the luxuries of life.

grievous. Heb. heavy.

1Sa 5:6; Isa 24:20

‏ Genesis 41:38

in whom.

Nu 27:18; Job 32:8; Da 4:6,8,18; 5:11,14; 6:3

‏ 1 Kings 17:1-16

1 Elijah, having prophesied against Ahab, is sent to Cherith where the ravens feed him.

8 He is sent to the widow of Zarephath.

17 He raises the widow's son.

24 The woman believes him.

A.M. 3094. B.C. 910. Elijah. Heb. Elijahu.

Mt 11:14; 16:14; 27:47,49; Lu 1:17; 4:25,26; 9:30,33,54

Joh 1:21,25; Ro 11:2

Elias. As the Lord God.

22:14; 2Ki 3:14; 5:16; Isa 49:18; Mt 7:29; Lu 1:17

before whom.

De 10:8; Jer 15:19; Lu 1:19; 21:36; Ac 27:23

dew nor rain.

Lu 4:25; Jas 5:17; Re 11:6

12:22; 1Ch 17:3; Jer 7:1; 11:1; 18:1; Ho 1:1,2

hide thyself.

22:25; Ps 31:20; 83:3; Jer 36:19,26; Joh 8:59; Ac 17:14; Heb 11:38

Re 12:6,14

I have commanded.

9; 19:5-8; Nu 20:8; Job 34:29; 38:8-13,41; Ps 33:8,9; 147:9

Am 9:3,4; Mt 4:4,11

did according.

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