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4041 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 …
4042 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 …
4043 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 …
4044 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 …
4045 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 …
4046 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 15.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah at Jerusalem had come. From the accounts of Temple times left us we know that the evening sacrifice was offered “between the evenings,” as it was termed …
4047 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 15.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to Jehovah. This was the meaning of his restoring the broken place of former pious worship by rolling to it twelve of the large pieces of rock that strewed …
4048 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 15.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah, and all that he had previously done as only at His Word: but Jehovah was the covenant-God, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, manifesting Himself …
4049 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 16.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to Jehovah, so now the fire of Jehovah leaped from heaven, consumed the sacrifice and the wood, enwrapped and burnt up the limestone rocks of which the altar …
4050 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 16.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to Jehovah. He also was to share in the sacrifice; he was to eat the sacrificial meal. But it must be in haste, for already Elijah heard the sighing and low moaning …
4051 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 17.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah was upon the Tishbite.The Targum renders: “And the spirit of strength from before Jehovah.”
4052 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 17.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to Jehovah or to the god of Jezebel.
4053 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 18.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah ( Exodus 20:2, 3 ), idolatry was not only a crime, but a revolt against the Majesty of heaven, Israel’s King, which involved the most fatal consequences …
4054 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 21.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… great Jehovah, Whose manifestation on Carmel had been so awful in its grandeur, condescended to His servant in the hour of his utmost need, and with unspeakable …
4055 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 …
4056 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 …
4057 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 …
4058 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 …
4059 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 …
4060 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 …