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4021 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 …
4022 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 172.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah!This was the official dress of the priests of Baal.
4023 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 …
4024 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 …
4025 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 …
4026 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 …
4027 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 …
4028 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 …
4029 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 …
4030 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 …
4031 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 …
4032 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 …
4033 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 …
4034 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 7.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah on whom she could lay hands, as if they had been Elijah’s accomplices, to be punished for what she regarded as his crime. If all the representatives …
4035 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 8.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… concerning Jehovah and His prophet that it implied; and, lastly, if no general repentance had taken place, every one must at least have been prepared for the …
4036 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 9.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah was characteristic of each. It is a mistake to suppose, as interpreters generally do, that the words with which Ahab accosted Elijah, “Art thou the …
4037 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 11.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah restored by Elijah, and dating from before the building of the Temple, when such worship was lawful. On the plateau beneath, under the shade of the …
4038 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 13.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
If Jehovah be the Elohim—go after Him; but if the Baal, go after him! To an appeal so trenchantly true there could in the then condition of the public mind be no …
4039 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 13.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah. Single-handed, therefore, he would go to the contest, if contest of power it were against that multitude. Power! They worshipped as God the powers …
4040 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 13.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah’s majestic interposition would also make the deeper impression. But although from Elijah’s point of view it was important that the priests …