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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 19:1-8

One would have expected, after such a public and sensible manifestation of the glory of God and such a clear decision of the controversy depending between him and Baal, to the honour of Elijah, the confusion of Baal's prophets, and the universal satisfaction of the people?after they had seen both fire and water come from heaven at the prayer of Elijah, and both in mercy to them, the one as it signified the acceptance of their offering, the other as it refreshed their inheritance, which was... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 19:9-18

Here is, I. Elijah housed in a cave at Mount Horeb, which is called the mount of God, because on it God had formerly manifested his glory. And perhaps this was the same cave, or cleft of a rock, in which Moses was hidden when the Lord passed by before him and proclaimed his name, Exod. 33:22. What Elijah proposed to himself in coming to lodge here, I cannot conceive, unless it was to indulge his melancholy, or to satisfy his curiosity and assist his faith and devotion with the sight of that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness ,.... Of Paran, which began near Beersheba, and was the wilderness of Arabia, in which the Israelites were near forty years; this day's journey carried him about twenty miles from Beersheba southward, as the above writer reckons: and came and sat down under a juniper tree ; Abarbinel supposes that Elijah chose to sit under this tree, to preserve him from venomous creatures, which naturalists say will not come near it; and Pliny ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 19:5

And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree ,.... Being weary and fatigued with his journey, the same under which he sat; for there was but one, as that is said to be in the preceding verse: behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, arise, and eat ; so far was the Lord from granting his request to take away his life, that he made provision to preserve it; so careful was he of him, as to give an angel charge to get food ready for him, and then awake him to eat of it. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 19:6

And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baked on the coals ,.... Just took off the coals, quite hot. Bochart F17 Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 2. c. 33. col. 528. thinks it should be rendered, "baked on hot stones"; and such was the way of baking cakes in some of the eastern countries; see Gill on Genesis 18:6 , the stones hereabout might be heated by a supernatural power, and the cake baked on them by an angel; these sort of cakes are in Hebrew called "huggoth", as some pronounce the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 19:7

And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him ,.... In order to awake him out of sleep: and said unto him, arise, and eat, because the journey is too great for thee ; which he had to go to Horeb, without eating more than he had; and there were no provisions to be had in a common way and manner in his road thither. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 19:8

And he arose, and did eat and drink ,.... Of what was left of the cake and cruse of water, before provided for him: and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God ; for so long he was going to that place, though it might have been gone in three or four days; but he went in byways, and wandered about in the wilderness, as the Israelites did, and that for the space of forty days, as they did near forty years; and all this while he had no other... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 19:9

And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there ,.... This cave, some travellers say F21 Egmont and Heyman's Travels, vol. 2. p. 166. , is to be seen at this day, not far from a church dedicated to the prophet Elijah, and that the cave itself has the appearance of a chapel; but a more particular account of it is given in a journal F23 Journal from Cairo to Mount Sinai in 1722, p. 26. Ed. 2. lately published, which says, this cave exists to this very day, and is situated at the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 19:10

And he said, I have been jealous for the Lord God of hosts ,.... Through zeal for the glory of God he had slain four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, and this had stirred up the malice and revenge of Jezebel against him, who sought his life, and which had obliged him to flee, and come to this place for shelter; this is the first part of his answer, others follow: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant ; the law, especially the two first commandments delivered in this... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 19:11

And he said, go forth and stand upon the mount before the Lord ,.... Who would appear there as he had to Moses formerly, though not in the same manner: and, behold, the Lord passed by ; or was about to pass, for as yet he had not; his messengers first went before him: and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord ; strong enough to do all this, and so it might: but the Lord was not in the wind ; as he sometimes is, Nahum 1:3 , he... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 19:1-8

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 19:9-18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 19:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 19:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 19:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 19:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 19:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 19:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 19:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 19:11

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