Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 18:31
Took twelve stones - He did this to show that all the twelve tribes of Israel should be joined in the worship of Jehovah. read more
열왕기상 18:29-45 Krv
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 18:32
He made a trench - This was to detain the water that might fall down from the altar when the barrels should be poured upon it, 1 Kings 18:35 . read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 18:33
Fill four barrels - This was done to prevent any kind of suspicion that there was fire concealed under the altar. An ancient writer under the name of Chrysostom, quoted by Calmet, says that he had seen under the altars of the heathens, holes dug in the earth with funnels proceeding from them, and communicating with openings on the tops of the altars. In the former the priests concealed fire, which, communicating through the funnels with the holes, set fire to the wood and consumed the... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 18:36
Lord God of Abraham - He thus addressed the Supreme Being, that they might know when the answer was given, that it was the same God whom the patriarchs and their fathers worshipped, and thus have their hearts turned back again to the true religion of their ancestors. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 18:38
Then the fire of the Lord fell - It did not burst out from the altar; this might still, notwithstanding the water, have afforded some ground for suspicion that fire had been concealed, after the manner of the heathens, under the altar. Pindar's account of the Rhodians' settling is the isle of Rhodes, and their first sacrifice there, bears a near affinity to the account here given: the shower of gold descending on the sacrifice offered up without fire, to show the approbation of... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 18:39
Fell on their faces - Struck with awe and reverence at the sight of this incontestable miracle. And they said - We should translate the words thus: Jehovah, He is the God! Jehovah, He is the God! Baal is not the God; Jehovah alone is the God of Israel. As our term Lord is very equivocal, we should every where insert the original word יהוה , which we should write Yeve or Yeheveh, or Yahvah or Yehueh, or, according to the points, Yehovah. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 18:40
Let not one of them escape - They had committed the highest crime against the state and the people by introducing idolatry, and bringing down God's judgments upon the land; therefore their lives were forfeited to that law which had ordered every idolater to be slain. It seems also that Ahab, who was present, consented to this act of impartial justice. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 18:41
Get thee up , eat and drink - It appears most evidently that Ahab and the prophet were now on good terms, and this is a farther evidence that the slaying of the false prophets was by the king's consent. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 18:42
Put his face between his knees - He kneeled down, and then bowed his head to the earth, so that, while his face was between his knees, his forehead touched the ground. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 18:30
He repaired the altar of the Lord - There had been an altar of Jehovah in that place, called, even among the heathens, the altar of Carmel, probably built in the time of the judges, or, as the rabbins imagine, by Saul. Tacitus and Suetonius mention an altar on Mount Carmel, which Vespasian went to consult; there was no temple nor statue, but simply an altar that was respectable for its antiquity. " Est Judaeam inter Syriamque Carmelus; ita vocant montem Deumque: nec simulachrum... read more