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701 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 79.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah, as practiced in Jerusalem, he had, at least in profession, not renounced the national religion, but only worshipped the God of Israel under the symbol …
702 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 80.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to Jehovah, whose prophet Elijah was in the land, and as such it must bring sharpest punishment to all involved in it. It was fitting, so to speak, that, in contrast …
703 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 80.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah would be vindicated. Guilty messengers of an apostate king, they were to bring back to him Jehovah’s sentence of death. Whether or not they recognized …
704 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 81.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah. The first measure of the king was to send to Elijah “a captain of fifty with his fifty.” There cannot be any reasonable doubt that this was with hostile …
705 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 81.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… —not Jehovah. Secondly: Elijah in taking up the challenge does not use the term Jehovah—which would have been unfitting in this connection, but in repeating …
706 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 82.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah as the living and true God, even as the king’s had been a public denial thereof. It seems not easy to understand how Ahaziah dispatched a third—nay …
707 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 83.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah. Accordingly the prophet was directed to go with him, as he had nothing to fear from him. Arrived in the presence of the king, Elijah neither softened …
708 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 85.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… that “Jehovah would cause Elijah to ascend in a storm-wind to heaven”—nay, perhaps Elijah himself may not have been aware of the special circumstances that …
709 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 86.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… that Jehovah will take away thy master from thy head today?” The word “today” may, indeed, be taken in a more general sense, as equivalent to “at this time,” but even …
710 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 88.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah of Hosts. To behold this emblem was pledge of perceiving the manifestation of God, unseen by the world, and of being its herald and messenger, as Elijah …
711 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 89.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , that Jehovah our God liveth; regret and a sense of loss should not dull, rather quicken us for work, in the name of God. Nor yet should the feeling that we have a …
712 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 90.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… is Jehovah, the God of Elijah—even He?” spoken not in doubt nor hesitation, but, on the contrary, in assurance of his own commission from heaven, with all that it …
713 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 93.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah had not uplifted and then cast Elijah into some remote corner of that desolate and rocky region near Jericho? It will be remembered that Christian …
714 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 93.4 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah should appear, as it were, in a concrete form, through a living representative, who should be quick to bring blessing or judgment, and so to demonstrate …
715 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 94.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah,” it was “not like his father, and like his mother;” and we are expressly told that “he removed the pillar of Baal which his father had made” ( 2 Kings 3:2 ). This …
716 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 95.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah ( v. 21 ). Accordingly, as everything connected with the service of the LORD, the cruse to be used must be “new” ( Numbers 19:2 ), dedicated to God alone. And the …
717 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 95.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah. But most of all, does it help us to realize how God is a present help in time of trouble—if only we seek Him in the manner which He appoints.
718 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 96.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah. Thus it was really open defiance of God, all the more inexcusable that it was entirely unprovoked, and that it offended against the law of man almost …
719 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 97.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… been Jehovah, not the prophet, who had healed the waters of Jericho. It may here be noticed that, if the event had not really taken place, the inventor would have …
720 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 100.11 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah,” to Chemosh—both at the taking of Nebo, in the northernmost part of Moab.