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2601 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 21.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… what Jehovah was and of what He purposed.The journey straight to Mount Horeb would have taken scarcely more than a fourth of that time. The Hebrew has the …
2602 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 22.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah. The one question—afterwards repeated in different circumstances—“What doest thou here, Elijah?” was intended to bring his state of mind clearly …
2603 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 23.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… before Jehovah—and behold, Jehovah passing by (passeth by).” The narrative portion only begins after this: “And wind, great and strong,” etc. It deserves notice that …
2604 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 23.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah—not in storm Jehovah! And after the wind earthquake—not in earthquake Jehovah! And after the earthquake fire—not in fire Jehovah! And after the fire …
2605 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 23.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… before Jehovah (comp. Exodus 3:6; 33:20, 22; Isaiah 6:2 ). The storm which rends, the earthquake which shakes all to its foundations, the fire which consumes—these are …
2606 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 24.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah. If the LORD Himself had not been in the desolating messengers of terror, why should Elijah have expected it in the judgments which he was commissioned …
2607 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 25.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… that Jehovah was still in Israel, in the voice of soft stilling, was granted to the prophet. All unknown to him God had even in corrupt Israel His own, a “remnant …
2608 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 28.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , that Jehovah He was God—“the God of Gods” —and that Jehovah was in Israel—, and the God of Israel.Although this special Psalm 136 may not be David’s, we must remember …
2609 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 32.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… was Jehovah, the living Covenant God, Who gave the victory. Thus the teaching of Elijah on Mount Carmel was now to find its confirmation and application in …
2610 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 33.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , since Jehovah is the living God; and that hence ours should be the faith of a constant expectancy. It reads as we might have expected in the circumstances, that …
2611 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 35.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… that Jehovah He was God.
2612 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 36.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… for Jehovah to show forth that great lesson which underlies and sums up all revelation. Of the Israelitish host we know not the numbers—only that, as they camped …
2613 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 38.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah; he inquired not as to His purpose or will. There was an ominous similarity between his conduct and that of Saul in regard to Agag ( 1 Samuel 15 ). Evidently …
2614 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 39.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah”—that is, by direct command from Him—to confront Ahab with such a symbolic (or parabolic) presentation of his late conduct as would show it in its true …
2615 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 39.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah,” bade him “smite” him.The expression “neighbor” or “fellow” ( ver. 35 ) means that he was also one of “the sons of the prophets.”
2616 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 39.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah,” we can understand the Divine judgment which so speedily overtook him when he was torn by a lion. For the fundamental idea, the very law, of prophetism …
2617 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 40.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… been Jehovah’s, not Ahab’s, and Ben-hadad had been the “banned” of the Lord. “Because thou hast let go forth out of thine hand (custody) the man of my ban (compare Leviticus …
2618 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 43.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah have left its households when even in Jezreel a burgher could appeal from the demands of an Ahab to the authority and law of his God. And it affords …
2619 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 43.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… by Jehovah: now by His prophets, then by His worshippers. Here was a power which he dared not resist, yet to which he would not submit. But Jezebel shared neither …
2620 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 46.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… day Jehovah had bidden Elijah arise and meet Ahab with the Divine message, just as the king thought himself in secure possession of the fruit of his crime …