In First Kings, chapter seventeen, verse seventeen, we confront here one of the perplexing mysteries of life. At the time, God miraculously provided flour and oil, and trouble and sorrow occurred. No soul of life in the son is the expression. However, here only means that he died, as manifested in the following verses. The …
In First Kings, chapter seventeen, verse fifteen, the needs and misery of a poor widow were not insignificant to God. He sent Elijah to strengthen her faith and give material blessings when she felt all was lost, as in verse twelve. The faith of the widow in God and His Word through the prophet Elijah …
In First Kings, chapter seventeen, verse seven, when the brook dried up, God directed Elijah to go to a pagan territory inhabited by Baal worshipers. He provided for Elijah through a poor widow, as in verse nine. The experience further strengthened Elijah’s confidence in God’s providence. Sometimes adversity occurs even though we are not in …
In First Kings, chapter seventeen, the second portion of verse one, as God’s messenger, Elijah spoke a word of judgment from the Lord against disobedient Israel. God would withhold rain for three and a half years, as in Deuteronomy eleven, thirteen through seventeen. The word of judgment also mocked Baal, for the worshipers of Baal …
In First Kings, chapter seventeen, verse one, Elijah was a prophet in the northern kingdom during the reigns of Ahab and his son Ahaziah. The name Elijah represents the unshakable conviction of Elijah’s life in chapter eighteen, verses twenty-one and thirty-nine, respectively. The principal narratives about his life are found in First Kings, chapters seventeen …
In First Kings, chapter sixteen, verse thirty-one, Baal was the idol that the Zidonians worshipped, which they thought to be Hercules or false gods, for this name is common to all such. And this idolatry was much worse than that of the calves: because in the calves, they worshipped the true God, but in these, …
In First Kings, chapter sixteen, verse thirty, sin and evil become progressively worse during the reign of King Ahab. Jezebel, Ahab’s wife, led the way in witchcraft and idolatry so that rebellion and hardness of heart against God would try to prevail in Israel. In the face of such apostasy, God sent the mighty profit …
In First Kings, chapter sixteen, verse seven, Jehu did what God commanded in this matter, though it was not without apparent hazard to himself. Nadab, on the other hand, who thought he, was not expressed is sufficiently understood. But why is he punished for doing the work of God? Because, first, God appointed that the …
In First Kings, chapter fifteen, verse nine, continues with Asa, king of Judah. In the twentieth year of Jeroboam, the king of Israel reigned Asa for forty-and-one years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. He took the sodomites out of the land, removed all the idols his father did, and dismissed …
In First Kings, chapter fifteen, verse three begins with Abijam, king of Judah. So his reign began with Jeroboam’s eighteenth year, continued his whole nineteenth year, and ended within his twentieth year, equal three years. The son of his mother, Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom: walked in all the sins of his father. The not perfect heart …
