11And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.
And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)In these verses we find, I. The sad state of Israel at this time, upon two accounts:— 1. Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord (1 Kgs. 18:4), slew them , 1 Kgs. 18:13. Being an idolater, she was a persecutor, and made Ahab one. Even in those bad times, when the calves were worshipped and the temple at Jerusalem deserted, yet there were some good people that feared God and served him, and some g…
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