Elijah
And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the
LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said [unto him, As]
the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave
thee. So they went down to Bethel....
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And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for
the LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, [As] the LORD
liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So
they came to Jericho....
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And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I
[be] a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and
consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from
heaven, and consumed him and his fifty....
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(pronounced /ɨˈlaɪdʒə/)[1] or Elias (pronounced /ɨˈlaɪ.əs/)
(Hebrew: אליהו, Eliyahu; Arabic:إلياس, Ilyās), whose name
(El-i Jahu) means "Jehovah is my God,"[2] was a prophet in
Israel in the 9th century BCE. He appears in the Hebrew
Bible, Talmud, Mishnah, New Testament, and the Qur'an.
According to the Books of Kings, Elijah raised the dead, ...
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(1) The great prophet of the times of Ahab, king of Israel.
Elijah is identified at his first appearance (1 Ki 17:1) as
"Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead."
Thus his native place must have been called Tishbeh. A Tishbeh
(Thisbe) in the territory of Naphtali is known from Tobit 1:2;
but if (with most modern commentators) ...
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1. The Tishbite, a Gileadite and prophet, called ELIAS in
the
King James Version of the N. T.
Persecuted by Ahab
1Ki 17:2-7; 18:7-10
Escapes to the wilderness, where he is miraculously fed
by
ravens
1Ki 17:1-7
By divine direction goes to Zarephath, where he is
sustained
in the household of a widow, whose meal and oil are
miraculousiy in...
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(my God is Jehovah) has been well entitled "the grandest and
the most romantic character that Israel ever produced."
"Elijah the Tishbite,... of the inhabitants of Gilead" is
literally all that is given us to know of his parentage and
locality. Of his appearance as he "stood before" Ahab (B.C.
910) with the suddenness of motion to this day
ch...
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whose God is Jehovah. (1.) "The Tishbite," the "Elias" of
the
New Testament, is suddenly introduced to our notice
in 1 Kings
17:1 as delivering a message from the Lord to Ahab.
There is
mention made of a town called Thisbe, south of
Kadesh, but it is
impossible to say whether this was the place
referred to in the
name given to the prophet...
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("God-Jehovah".) (1 Kings 17:1, etc.). "The Tishbite, of the
inhabitants of Gilead." No town of the name has been
discovered; some explain it as "Converter." His name and
designation mark his one grand mission, to bring his
apostate people back to Jehovah as THE true God; compare 1
Kings 18:39 with Malachi 4:5-6. In contrast to the detailed
g...
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