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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 19:1-8

The Prophet's Despair. I. ELIJAH 'S WEAKNESS . 1 . His disappointment . With the hand of the Lord upon him he had come to Jezreel ( 1 Kings 18:46 ). Was it not because a further success for God awaited him there? Could Carmel's wonders and the mercy of God in the rain now flooding the earth be resisted? Jezebel's message, displaying only determined and increased hostility, rudely dispels the dream. The blighting of the long-expected fruit of prayer and waiting and mightiest... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 19:1-18

The Desponding Prophet. A marvellous change has come over Elijah. It is difficult to imagine a more complete contrast than is presented by his moral attitude in this and the previous chapters. He who just before has so boldly confronted the proud king, and defied the priests of Baal, standing without fear before his flaming altar, and sternly carrying out the judgment of God on the corrupters of His people, is now filled with dismay, and flies from the post of duty and of danger. So... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 19:1-18

The Desponding Prophet. A marvellous change has come over Elijah. It is difficult to imagine a more complete contrast than is presented by his moral attitude in this and the previous chapters. He who just before has so boldly confronted the proud king, and defied the priests of Baal, standing without fear before his flaming altar, and sternly carrying out the judgment of God on the corrupters of His people, is now filled with dismay, and flies from the post of duty and of danger. So... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 19:2

Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah [The prophet, wrapped in his abba, was seemingly about to spend the night in the open air, possibly at the gate, or in the plain. There, in the darkness, the messenger found him, Bähr assumes that this message had Ahab's sanction; i.e; that he must have known of it and was too weak to prevent it. But it is just as likely that it was sent without his privity. On the evening of that day he would be afraid to threaten one vested with such tremendous... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 19:2

" Then Jezebel sent a messenger ." Not, as we might have expected, to sue for forgiveness, but to threaten reprisals. "She swears and stamps at that whereat she should have trembled" (Hall). There is no hate like's woman's, no wickedness like hers. They never do things by halves. "Men differ at most as heaven and earth, But women, best and worst, as heaven and hell." This woman will not be persuaded though one rose from the dead ( Luke 16:1 ). The fiery sign was lost upon her... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 19:3

And when he saw that [Heb. and he saw and arose, etc. But the LXX . has καὶ ἐφοβήθη , and the Vulgate timuit, and it is to be observed that this meaning, " and he feared, " can be extracted from this word וירא without any change of radicals, for the full form יִירָא is occasionally abbreviated into יִרָא ; see 1 Samuel 18:12 ; 1 Samuel 21:13 ; 2 Kings 17:28 . A few MSS . have here וייּרא and it certainly suits the context better. Bähr, who interprets, "he... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 19:3

" He arose and went for his life ." Elijah, the intrepid apostle of Carmel, who had met the king without fear and faced the four hundred Baal prophets, and stood alone contra mundum, is seized with panic fear. The champion of the morning becomes the coward of the evening. We may well exclaim here, Quantum mutatus ab illo! well ask, "Lord, what is man?" Some have called man a demigod; have seen in him "the peer of the angels." "What a piece of work," says Hamlet, "is man! how noble in... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 19:2

The prophet had not long to wait before learning the intentions of the queen. A priest’s daughter herself, she would avenge the slaughtered priests; a king’s wife and a king’s child, she would not quail before a subject. That very night a messenger declared her determination to compass the prophet’s death within the space of a day.So let the gods ... - A common oath about this time (marginal references). The Greek Version prefixes to this another clause, which makes the oath even more forcible,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 19:3

The rapid movement of the original is very striking. “And he saw (or, “feared,” as some read), and he rose, and he went, etc.” The fear and flight of Elijah are very remarkable. Jezebel’s threat alone, had not, in all probability, produced the extraordinary change but, partly, physical reaction from the over-excitement of the preceding day; and, partly, internal disquietude and doubt as to the wisdom of the course which he had adopted.Beer-sheba is about 95 miles from Jezreel, on the very... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 19:1

1 Kings 19:1. Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done Not to convince her that Jehovah was the true God, and Baal a mere imaginary being, or a senseless idol, but to exasperate her against both Jehovah and his prophet. His conscience, it seems, would not let him persecute Elijah himself, having in him some remains of the spirit of an Israelite, which tied his hands; but he wished to excite her to do it. Hence it is not said he told her what God had done, but what Elijah had done, as if... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 19:1-8

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 19:1-18

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 19:1-18

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 19:2

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 19:2

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 19:3

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 19:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 19:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 19:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 19:1

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