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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 18:21-40

The Contest On Mount Carmel: YHWH Versus Baal (1 Kings 18:21-40 ). In this vivid description of the contest on Mount Carmel Ahab is deliberately not mentioned. This was because it was not a contest between Elijah and Ahab, but between YHWH, represented by Elijah, and Baal, represented by his four hundred and fifty prophets. All eyes were to be on the combatants. And it was carried out before all the people so that they could come to their own conclusions. It would end in a complete victory... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 18:1-41

1 Kings 18:1-Mark : . Elijah’ s Meeting with Ahab and his Contest with the Priests of Baal.— The history of Ahab’ s reign must have been something like the following: On his marriage with Jezebel he must have allowed the worship of the Baal of Tyre and been met with the remonstrances of the prophets. Furious at their opposition, Jezebel had massacred a large number, but the king’ s steward had supported the cause of Yahweh ( 1 Kings 18:4); so Ahab cannot have been wholly ill-disposed to those... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 18:22

I only remain, to wit, here present, publicly to own and plead the cause of God; for he opposeth himself only to Baal’s four’ hundred and fifty prophets, because they only were present; the prophets of the groves being, it seems, not permitted by Jezebel (through her pride, or obstinacy, or care and kindness to them) to go thither. See 1 Kings 22:6. As for the other prophets of the Lord, many of them were slain by Ahab or Jezebel, others banished, or hid in caves. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Kings 18:19-40

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—1 Kings 18:19. Prophets of Baal, &c.—Soothsayers and oracle príests. Groves—Asherah. Baal and Astarte were the male and female divinities. Jezebel was the patroness of the prophets of this female divinity. 1 Kings 18:21. How long halt ye, &c.—From the root סָעַף, to divide, dissever. In Psalms 119:118, the same word is rendered by “vain thoughts,” i.e., double-minded, ambiguous. The Vulg. translates here, Usquequo claudicatis in duas partes? To go from... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 18:22

1 Kings 18:22 I. The lesson of Elijah's history is the blessing and the glory of a constant will. It was this which made Elijah so great; it is this only which can make us great, for this is at the root of all true greatness. All actions of a seeming greatness which do not spring from this are nothing better than delusions and hypocrisy. Just so far as the will is truly purified by God's Holy Spirit and rules over all within us, just so far do we, as renewed men, rise up to the greatness of our... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 18:1-46

Chapter 18So our introduction to Elijah.Now it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the eaRuth ( 1 Kings 18:1 ).Now this is very important to the further part of the story. "The word of the Lord came to Elijah saying, Go show yourself to Ahab. I'm going to send rain upon the earth." So he has the promise of God that rain is going to come. Now later on, we're going to find Elijah up... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 18:1-46

1 Kings 18:1 . After many days. About the end of the third year, leaving six months more for the crops to be sown and ripened, which harmonizes the new testament with the old. Luke 4:25. James 5:17. 1 Kings 18:5 . Go to all fountains and brooks. It had rained in some corners of the land, for “one whole city had gone to another city to drink water.” No doubt there were some very deep springs that would run for more than a year. 1 Kings 18:13 . Jezebel slew the prophets of the lord. ... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Kings 18:19-40

1 Kings 18:19-40Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto Mount Carmel.The priests of BaalMendelssohn has wrought the harmonies and discords of this scene into a grand oratorio, and the painter or poet can find in it abundant material for his art. The actors are a king and royal court, hundreds of priests in splendid vesture, masses of people, anxious and hungry-eyed; and over against them a single man, big, fearless, with hairy mantle and leathern girdle, and loose locks waving like... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 18:22

1Ki 18:22 Then said Elijah unto the people, I, [even] I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal’s prophets [are] four hundred and fifty men. Ver. 22. I, even I, only remain. ] So Paphnutius in the Nicene Council carried it for the truth. So before him, did Nicodemus, John 7:51 ; Joh 7:53 as after, Athanasius and Luther, qui totius orbis impetum soli sustinuerunt. God is the more seen in such cases. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Kings 18:22

I only: 1 Kings 19:10, 1 Kings 19:14, 1 Kings 20:13, 1 Kings 20:32, 1 Kings 20:35, 1 Kings 20:38, 1 Kings 22:6-Ruth :, Romans 11:3 Baal's prophets: 1 Kings 18:19, 1 Kings 18:20, Matthew 7:13-Ezra :, 2 Timothy 4:3, 2 Timothy 4:4, 2 Peter 2:1-Leviticus : Reciprocal: Judges 5:3 - even I 2 Kings 10:18 - Ahab served Baal Jeremiah 2:8 - prophets Luke 10:2 - are read more