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2561 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 164.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah as regards doctrine and life, so as to bring the heavenly origin of the latter into marked prominence. Not as in the Authorized Version ( 1 Kings 16 …
2562 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 164.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah, which had their complete extermination for its object ( 1 Kings 18:13; 19:10; 2 Kings 9:7 ). These measures were wholly due to the absolute power which …
2563 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 168.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah as the Living God. A few Talmudic notices about Ahab may here find a place. They are chiefly derived from the Tractate Sanhedrin (102 b-103 b). His outward …
2564 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 169.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah’s Kingship, Holy Scripture here inserts a notice of the daring rebuilding of the walls of Jericho, and of the literal fulfillment of Joshua’s …
2565 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 169.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… serving Jehovah or Baal, with all that the choice implied. The difference between Noah and Elijah was only that of times and circumstances, the one was before …
2566 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 170.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah, the God of Israel. We have the highest authority for saying that he was the type of John the Baptist. But chiefly in this respect, that he lifted the …
2567 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 170.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… as Jehovah’s representative, almost plenipotentiary, we recall his unswerving faithfulness to, and absolutely fearless discharge of his trust. And yet …
2568 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 171.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… God Jehovah! though it is scarcely necessary to say that he did not assume it himself. Later Jewish tradition has represented him as of priestly descent, presumably …
2569 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 172.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah!This was the official dress of the priests of Baal.
2570 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 173.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah’s denunciation of judgment upon an apostate people ( Leviticus 26:19, etc.; Deuteronomy 11:16, etc.; 28:23, etc.; comp. 1 Kings 8:35; Amos 4:7 ); but with this addition …
2571 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 173.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… name Jehovah in such a place; the authority which he pleaded and the power which he claimed—in general, even the terms of his message, “Lives Jehovah, the God of …
2572 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 174.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… as Jehovah had such strange provisioners as “the ravens” to act as His messengers—for there is nothing that is merely natural in this history, and the miraculous …
2573 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 175.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… been Jehovah Who “commanded” the ravens, so it was He also Who “commanded” the widow of Sarepta, all unconscious as she was of it, to sustain Elijah.The Rabbis note …
2574 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 175.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah. Would she, the heathen, be willing to hold friendly communication with him? So he handed her the drinking-vessel which he had brought, with the request …
2575 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 176.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah—did she truly believe in Jehovah Himself; and if so, was her faith such that she would venture her last means of support upon her trust in Him and in …
2576 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 177.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , “Lives Jehovah, thy God,” which attested alike her knowledge of Elijah’s profession and her own faith, she told how nothing but a handful of meal was left in the …
2577 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 178.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah could only have been rudimentary and incipient, and who yet, at the word of a stranger, could give up her own and her son’s last meal, because a prophet …
2578 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 178.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… that Jehovah reigneth, and that we can venture our all upon it. And yet as great as this miracle of daily providing seems that other of the faith of the widow …
2579 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 179.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… upon Jehovah as his God, laying the living upon the dead, pouring his life, as it were, into the child, with the agony of believing prayer. But it was Jehovah Who …
2580 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 180.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah in thy mouth is truth.” She had learned it when first she received him; she had seen it day by day at her table; she had known it when God had answered her …