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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed. And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood. And he said, Do it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God. And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time. She was too fast in uttering her threat, and it often happens that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. Jezebel was the chief patroness of the idolatrous prophets, and therefore you may imagine how her wrath was stirred when her husband told her what Elijah had done to the men who ate at her table.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time. And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. This is the man who could fearlessly face the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-Sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. He did not feel safe even in the adjoining kingdom; for he fled through Israel, and then went almost the whole length of Judah, right into the wilderness. Note that he “left his servant there,” at Beer-Sheba. Even in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. Having presented this passionate and unreasonable prayer, he laid himself down to sleep, — the very best...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; What inconsistent beings men are! Elijah had fled to save his life, yet “he requested for himself that he might die;” — that he might die because he was afraid of death, die under a juniper tree in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat. And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink and laid him down again. And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat. And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again. He was very sad at heart because of the apostasy of Israel; and beside that, he was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee. God exercises foresight on behalf of his people which they cannot themselves exercise. He knows when we are to be called either to unusual service or unusual suffering, and he prepares us for it. He not only...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God. And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah? “Thou, Jehovah’s courageous prophet, why hast thou fled? Why art...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; There was something congenial about the rugged sides of Horeb, the mount of God, making it a suitable place for a man of Elijah’s spirit; the very gloom of the cave gave him some sort of miserable comfort. 1Ki_19:9. And, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, I have been very jealous, for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. He despaired of the good cause, and this was a great pity; for a man such as he was ought never...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: and after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? And he said, I have been very jealous — He stands to what he had said before, and now repeats his assertion:
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said,- A second time pouring out the bitterness of his soul before his God,- 1Ki_19:14. I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. It was a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the LORD said unto him, go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus:- “Get back to thy work; be not a deserter from the field of battle; return, for thou art wanted for various duties.”