New Century Version (NCV). He stood by them, and patiently heard them for so many hours praying to an idol, yet with secret indignation and disdain; and at noon, when the sun was at the hottest, and they too expecting fire (then if ever), he upbraided them with their folly; and notwithstanding the gravity of his office, and the seriousness of the work he had before him, bantered them: "Cry aloud, for he is a god, a goodly god that cannot be made to hear without all this clamour. Obadiah feared God greatly; Ahab had sold himself to work wickedness; and both discovered their character by the manner of their address to the prophet. One true prophet against 450 false prophets. (3.) Little wonder, then, that when King Ahab chose to marry a woman from Baal territory, the farmers in Israel built a house for this new god and welcomed him to the neighborhood (see 1 Kings 16:31). That Elijah could have made such a run is assured in the Arab runners could easily cover one hundred miles in two days. (Patterson and Austel), 2018 David Guzik No distribution beyond personal use without permission. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website. There he spoke with us. Above two years he had lain hid with the widow at Zarephath, after he had been concealed one year by the brook Cherith; so that the third year of his sojourning there, here spoken of (1 Kings 18:1; 1 Kings 18:1), was the fourth of the famine, which lasted in all three years and six months, as we find, Luke 4:25; James 5:17. He fitted up an altar. 16So Obadiah went to Ahab and told him where Elijah was. Such was Elijah's zeal, no doubt, against the idolatry of Baal, and such his compassion to his people, that he thought it long to be thus confined to a corner; yet he appeared not till God bade him: "Go and show thyself to Ahab, for now thy hour has come, even the time to favour Israel." Now it happened in the meantime that the sky became black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy rain. If, in this trial, they could but bring it to a drawn battle, their other advantages would give them the victory. When Jezebel cut off God's prophets God cut off the necessary provisions by the extremity of the drought. Those that procure God's judgments do the mischief, not he that merely foretels them and gives warning of them, that the nation may repent and prevent them. The higher the vote, the further up an answer is. Elijah might have looked for rain seventy times seven times, and not have seen it, if he had not thus begun his work at the right end. We need 2 cookies to store this setting. Elijah allows it to them (1 Kings 18:25; 1 Kings 18:25), gives them the lead for their greater confusion; only, knowing that the working of Satan is with lying wonders, he takes care to prevent a fraud: Be sure to put no fire under. Those that slighted and hated his counsels would gladly be beholden to him for his prayers. And when midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice. 46The Lord gave his power to Elijah, who tightened his clothes around him and ran ahead of King Ahab all the way to Jezreel. Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord (1 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings 18:4), slew them,1 Kings 18:13; 1 Kings 18:13. Otherwise you will be prompted again when opening a new browser window or new a tab. He hid 100 of them in two caves, when the persecution was hot, and fed them with bread and water,1 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings 18:4. And will a nation change their god?" 44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. It was a very coarse compliment with which he accosted him at the first word: Art thou he that troubleth Israel?1 Kings 18:17; 1 Kings 18:17. 2 And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. THE PROPHETS OF BAAL,THE PROPHETS OF ASHERAH,AND THE LATTER RAIN. 5 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts. Elijah told him to go and look again. IV. And there was a sore famine in Samaria. He proposed to bring the matter to a fair trial; and it was so much the fairer because Baal had all the external advantages on his side. 3. He causeth vapours to ascend, and maketh lightnings for the rain; for this rain he did both. His interview with Ahab himself, 1 Kings 18:17-20. Note, 1. The prophets of Baal, as criminals, are seized, condemned, and executed, according to law, 1 Kings 18:40; 1 Kings 18:40. This happened seven times. 24You prophets of Baal, pray to your god, and I will pray to the Lord. Ahab is the Achan, the troubler, who follows Baalim, those accursed things. It was strange that so wicked a man as Ahab would prefer him to it and continue him in it; certainly it was because he was a man of celebrated honesty, industry, and ingenuity, and one in whom he could repose a confidence, whose eyes he could trust as much as his own, as appears here, 1 Kings 18:5; 1 Kings 18:5. Follow Christ's journey to the Cross. For the nations around Israel, Baal was the rider of the clouds, who brought the rains and blessed the earth.When Baal showed up, the heavens rained oil, the rivers ran with honey, mothers gave birth to healthy children, and even the dead could be raised. Nothing creates more trouble to a land than the impiety and profaneness of princes and their families. All the people agreed that this was a good idea. (1.) And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken. St. Joseph New Catholic Version New Testament: Pocket Edition - Slightly Imperfect, St. Joseph New Catholic Version New Testament: Pocket Edition. The king and court were all for Baal; so was the body of the people. 3King Ahab sent for Obadiah, who was in charge of the kings palace. And they did it the second time. shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? Do you believe that? When Baals people died, it was Elijah who raised them to life (v. 22). He knew, by the Spirit, where to meet him, and we are here told what passed between them. He tells Elijah what great search Ahab had made for him and how much his heart was upon it to find him out, 1 Kings 18:10; 1 Kings 18:10. Jack Gutknecht. But there was no voice. The wind began to blow, and soon a heavy rain began to fall. if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. The Character of Obadiah; Elijah's Interview with Obadiah. This he calls (1 Kings 18:21; 1 Kings 18:21) halting between two opinions, or thoughts. Ahab had continued fasting all day, either religiously, it being a day of prayer, or for want of leisure, it being a day of great expectation; but now let him eat and rink for, though others perceive no sign of it, Elijah, by faith, hears the sound of abundance of rain,1 Kings 18:41; 1 Kings 18:41. It also dried up the water in the ditch. He himself retired to pray (for though God had promised rain, he must ask it, Zechariah 10:1), and to give thanks for God's answer by fire, now hoping for an answer by water. He would have the king know before, that it might not be a surprise to him and that he might be sure it was the prophet's own act to present himself to him. Pursuant to this order we have here, I. 1. 30 And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. 9 And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me? Each would take a bull and place it on their own altar. Ahab agrees with the request, but only 450 of the 850 priests (those who serve Baal) accept the challenge and show up (1Kings 18:22). As for those who fall as victims to the fire of God's wrath, no water can shelter them from it, any more than briers or thorns, Isaiah 27:4; Isaiah 27:5. 33 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. 25:3146). Though he was not at the place appointed, he chose the appointed time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, thereby to testify his communion with the altar at Jerusalem. The God therefore that has power to pardon sin, and to signify it by consuming the sin-offering, must needs be the God that can relieve us against the calamity. Didnt the prophet trick him? These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. 3. I would have healed Israel, but they would not be healed. The prophets of Baal went first. There was one very good man, who was a great man at court, Obadiah, who answered his name--a servant of the Lord, one who feared God and was faithful to him, and yet was steward of the household to Ahab. Idols could do neither good nor evil. 10 Reasons God Might Not Be Blessing Your Life, 9 Christians You Don't Want to Sit Beside on Sunday Morning, 6 Truths about Jesus Coming into the World, Inspiring Mother Breaks Down after Earning Golden Buzzer with Celine Dion Hit, 7 Ways Anxiety Dominates the Christian Mind. What is the story of Elijah and the prophets of Baal? I see nothing, he said. 18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim. Elijah, doubtless, had a special commission from God to put it to this test, otherwise he would have tempted God and affronted religion; but the case was extraordinary, and the judgment upon it would be of use, not only then, but in all ages. Money becomes a spiritual power that too often uses us rather than the other way around. But, since Ahab invites him not to ride with him, he will run before him (1 Kings 18:46; 1 Kings 18:46) as one of his footmen, that he may not seem to be lifted up with the great honour God had put upon him or to abate in his civil respect to his prince, though he reproved him faithfully. 29 And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded. III. ly. He bids Obadiah go and tell the king that he is there to speak with him: Tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is forth-coming, 1 Kings 18:8; 1 Kings 18:8. Elijah now came to bring blessings to Israel, tidings of the return of the rain; yet he was thus affronted. V. Elijah hereupon hastened Ahab home, and attended him himself. 46 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. 7While Obadiah was on his way, Elijah met him. Having built his altar in the name of the Lord (1 Kings 18:32; 1 Kings 18:32), by direction from him and with an eye to him, and not for his own honour, he prepared his sacrifice, 1 Kings 18:33; 1 Kings 18:33. We left the prophet Elijah wrapt up in obscurity. Elijah, like himself, boldly returned the charge upon the king, and proved it upon him, that he was the troubler of Israel,1 Kings 18:18; 1 Kings 18:18. All these parables point in the same direction: money wants our worship. What was the result of this fair trial. Maybe we can find enough grass to keep our horses and mules alive and not have to kill our animals. 6So each one chose a part of the country to search; Ahab went in one direction and Obadiah in another. The prince of the power of the air, if God has permitted him, could have caused fire to come down from heaven on this occasion, and gladly would have done it for the support of his Baal. 4When Jezebel was killing all the Lords prophets, Obadiah hid a hundred of them in two caves, fifty in one cave and fifty in another. 27 At noon Elijah began to taunt them, saying, "Shout louder, for he is a god! April 2018. 2. Prove that you are the God of Israel and that I am your servant. To win his people back, God demonstrated his power and mocked Baal along the way. 3:24). 25Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, There are many of you, so you go first. Go tell your master that I am here., 9Then Obadiah said, What wrong have I done for you to hand me over to Ahab like this? It was great condescension in God that he would suffer so plain a case to be disputed, and would permit Baal to be a competitor with him; but thus God would have every mouth to be stopped and all flesh to become silent before him. 37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. Because our material possessions so often seduce us into worshiping them like gods, they pose possibly the preeminent threat to worshiping Jesus. 15 And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself unto him to day. Through Elijah, God declared that Baal couldnt deliver the goods and his people couldnt have it both ways. In fact, the New Testament teaches that money and greed are often the loudest and most appealing idols seeking to steal our attention. Vote Up V. Elijah soon obtains from his God an answer by fire. 22 Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men. Baal and his prophets were confounded. They cut themselves and cried out to Baal for hours, but 1 Kings 18:26 says, "There was no voice; no one answered." Their god was a non-entity, a nothing. Otherwise, the rain will stop him.. In the myth, Baal returns to life when the rains come. But it is strange to find such an eminently good man governor of Ahab's house, an office of great honour, power, and trust. 35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water. He sent his prophet Elijah to tell Israel to stop limping between two different opinions (1 Kings 18:21 ESV). Community answers are sorted based on votes. 2. Asked April 28 2020 The battle for their hearts took place in part on the battlefield of their bank accounts. Used by permission of Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group. 12The Spirit of the Lord may carry you to some other place after I leave. It is a very bad thing to halt between God and Baal. Those halt between them that are unresolved under their convictions, unstable and unsteady in their purposes, promise fair, but do not perform, begin well, but do not hold on, that are inconsistent with themselves, or indifferent and lukewarm in that which is good. He sent the rain in torrents. The managers of Baal's cause were 450 men, fat and well fed (1 Kings 18:22; 1 Kings 18:22), besides 400 more, their supporters or seconds, 1 Kings 18:19; 1 Kings 18:19. Note, It has been the lot of the best and most useful men to be called and counted the troublers of the land, and to be run down as public grievances. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly: 4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) There needed no proof of the fact; all Israel were witnesses of it: and therefore Elijah (acting still by an extraordinary commission, which is not to be drawn into a precedent) orders them all to be slain immediately as the troublers of the land, and Ahab himself is so terrified, for the present, with the fire from heaven, that he dares not oppose it. He put himself into a strange posture. 22Elijah said, I am the only prophet of the Lord here, but there are four hundred fifty prophets of Baal. A fight to the finish. He solicited their allegiance, work, and worshipfor himself and his kingdom. And nothing can't answer you when you call out to it! It was strange that either he did not reform Ahab or Ahab corrupt him; but it seems they were both fixed; he that was filthy would be filthy still, and he that was holy would be holy still. Does the devil have power to make us sick? The land of Judah lay close to the land of Israel, yet we find no complaint there of the want of rain; for Judah yet ruled with God, and was faithful with the saints and prophets (Hosea 11:12), by which distinction Israel might plainly have seen the ground of God's controversy, when God caused it to rain upon one city and not upon another (Amos 4:7; Amos 4:8); but they blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts, and would not see. In it, Elijah, the prophet of Gd, puts to the test what was at the time perceived as the most supreme and powerful of all the godsBaal. This is the right method. The execution he did upon the prophets of Baal, 1 Kings 18:40. If I go tell King Ahab you are here, and he comes and doesnt find you, he will kill me! This great good man used his power for the protection of God's prophets. From Genesis to Revelation, we see that one of our Creator Kings primary qualities is his lavish generosity. 23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: 24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. 7 And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah? V. The return of the mercy of rain, at the word of Elijah, 1 Kings 18:41-46. Ahab issued out writs accordingly, for the convening of this great assembly (1 Kings 18:20; 1 Kings 18:20), either because he feared Elijah and durst not oppose him (Saul stood in awe of Samuel more than of God), or because he hoped Elijah would bless the land, and speak the word that they might have rain, and upon those terms they would be all at his beck. God immediately answered him by fire, 1 Kings 18:38; 1 Kings 18:38. So they cried aloud, and cut themselves, as was their custom, with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them. Joseph and Daniel were preferred because there were none so fit as they for the places they were preferred to. VI. Nay (1 Kings 18:13; 1 Kings 18:13), Was it not told my lord how I hid the prophets? Ahab, like himself, basely accused Elijah. What would be some verses from the Bible to save a marriage? 25 And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under. Let the prophets of Baal choose one bull and kill it and cut it into pieces. "I love Jesus and it is the honor of my life to get to portray him," he said. By this time there was no food in Samaria. 44The seventh time, the servant said, I see a small cloud, the size of a human fist, coming from the sea., Elijah told the servant, Go to Ahab and tell him to get his chariot ready and go home now. And now, 1. God never required his worshippers thus to honour him; but the service of the devil, though in some instances it pleases and pampers the body, yet in other things it is really cruel to it, as in envy and drunkenness. Should the explanation in Genesis on how God created plants before the sun affect the understanding of creation? We may suppose it was a great surprise to Ahab to hear that Elijah, whom he had so long sought and not found, was now found without seeking. We are fairly put to our choice whom we will serve,Joshua 24:15. I. The manager of God's cause was but one man, lately a poor exile, hardly kept from starving; so that God's cause has nothing to support it but its own right. He addressed himself to God as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, acting faith on God's ancient covenant, and reminding people too (for prayer may prevail) of their relation both to God and to the patriarchs. Clarify I. Elijah reproved the people for mixing the worship of God and the worship of Baal together. Elijah, in answer to him, [1.] [2.] They danced around the altar they had built. 1 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth. King Ahab sent for Obadiah, who was in charge of the king's palace. In the book of Acts, we read a most interesting and revealing number. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. If the ruler said you were not there, Ahab forced the ruler to swear you could not be found in his country. Providence ordered it so, that Ahab might, with his own eyes, see how bad the consequences of this judgment were, that so he might be the better inclined to hearken to Elijah, who would direct him into the only way to put an end to it. He sent fire from heaven. The people, as the jury, gave in their verdict upon the trial, and they are all agreed in it; the case is so plain that they need not go from the bar to consider of their verdict or consult about it: They fell on their faces, and all, as one man, said, "Jehovah, he is the God, and not Baal; we are convinced and satisfied of it: Jehovah, he is the God" (1 Kings 18:39; 1 Kings 18:39), whence, one would think, they should have inferred, "If he be the God, he shall be our God, and we will serve him only," as Joshua 24:24. That word occurs again in verse 26b when the prophets of Baal are desperate trying to get their god to answer them: "'O Baal, answer us!' But there was no voice, and no one answered. Is it True for Christians That 'Once Saved, Always Saved'? Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. How sharp Elijah was upon them, 1 Kings 18:27; 1 Kings 18:27. 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