42So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,
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And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:
God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
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?
Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 41-46)Israel being thus far reformed that they had acknowledged the Lord to be God, and had consented to the execution of Baal’s prophets, that they might not seduce them any more, though this was far short of a thorough reformation, yet it was so far accepted that God thereupon opened the bottles of heaven, and poured out blessings upon his land, that very evening (as it should seem) on which they did…
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