![]() I just let my mouth run and I said these things. But I was just upset so I just you know didn't really engage my brain. Afterwards you're even sorry that you said them many times. You know, you get real upset and you just say things you don't really mean. And it's interesting how that when we are so upset, we oftentimes say things we don't really mean. Now this is, you know, out of a distraught condition. Probably so bushed he couldn't go on any further.īut he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, he came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested that he might die he said, It is enough now, O LORD, take away my life, slay me, I'm through ( 1 Kings 19:4 ). And when he got the message from Jezebel, he got up, and he began to run for his life, and he came all the way to Beersheba, and he left his servant there ( 1 Kings 19:1-3 ). And Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, and she said, So let the gods do to me, and even more also, if I don't make your life like the life of those prophets by to morrow this time. So Ahab told his wife Jezebel the whole story of what had happened, what Elijah did, and how he killed all of her prophets with the sword. e., “I am a mere weak man, no better nor stronger than they who have gone before me, no more able to revolutionize the world than they.” Thus the prophet at length gave way completely - made his prayer that he might die - and, exhausted sank, to sleep. Such solitude might brace the soul in certain moods but in others it must utterly overwhelm and crush. He was still suffering from the reaction of overstrained feeling he was weary with nights and days of travel he was faint with the sun’s heat he was exhausted for want of food he was for the first time alone - alone in the awful solitude and silence of the great white desert. The prophet’s depression here reached its lowest point. Requested for himself that he might die - Like Moses and Jonah (marginal references). ![]() It grows to such a size as to afford shade and protection, both in heat and storm, to travelers. He, therefore, proceeds southward into the desert, simply to be out of the reach of his enemies.Ī juniper-tree - The tree here mentioned רתם rethem is not the juniper but a species of broom ( Genista monosperma), called “rethem” by the Arabs, which abounds in the Sinaitic peninsula. Elisha showed his willingness to succeed Elijah by killing his oxen (his previous source of income) and using them to provide a farewell dinner for his family and friends (19-21).Įlijah did not feel himself safe until he was beyond the territory of Judah, for Ahab might demand him of Jehoshaphat 1 Kings 18:10, with whom he was on terms of close alliance 1 Kings 22:4. With renewed confidence Elijah returned to Israel. ![]() Through the work of an enemy king Hazael, an Israelite king Jehu and the prophet Elisha, violent and spectacular events would occur as punishments on Israel but always there would be some who heeded God’s voice and remained faithful to him (15-18). ![]() God then showed Elijah that although violent and spectacular events had some use, there would be lasting benefits only as people listened to God’s voice in their hearts and responded accordingly (11-14). The people as a whole repeatedly rebelled against its commands, and they were spiritually unaffected by the drought and its spectacular removal (9-10). Elijah doubted whether the covenant had any more meaning for Israel. But God sustained him, enabling him to keep moving south till he reached Mt Sinai, the place where God had made his covenant with Israel (3-8). Elijah fled south through the barren regions of Judah where, overcome with despair, he wanted only to die. She still had great power over the people, who, despite Elijah’s victory at Mt Carmel, soon returned to their idolatrous ways (19:1-2 cf. When Jezebel heard that Elijah had killed her prophets, she threatened to do the same to him.
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