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621 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 …

622 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 …

623 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 …

624 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 172.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of Jehovah!This was the official dress of the priests of Baal.

625 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 …

626 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 …

627 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 …

628 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 …

629 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 …

630 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 …

631 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 …

632 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 …

633 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 …

634 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 …

635 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 …

636 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 …

637 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 …

638 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 …

639 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 …

640 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 …