1 Kings 17

In fact, God will make it up some way or other in this life (Proverbs 11:25). The liberal soul shall be made [reconstructed: fat]: as the loaves in breaking multiplied, or as the widow's oil increased by pouring out (1 Kings 17:16). An estate may be imparted, yet not impaired.

When the Protestants in Rochelle were besieged by the French King, God by his Providence sent in a great number of small fish that fed them, such as were never seen before in that haven. So the raven, that unnatural creature — that will hardly feed its own young, yet — provident…

(1.) Sometimes God afflicts with poverty. The widow had nothing left her save a pot of oil (1 Kings 17:12). Poverty is a great temptation.

God creates comforts when means fail: He that brought food to the Prophet Elijah by the unnatural Ravens, will bring sustenance to his people. God can preserve the Oil in the Cruse, 1 Kings 17:14. The Lord made the Sun on Ahaz's Dial go ten degrees backward: So when our outward…

If men had but a spark of grace, the consideration of this would make them loath the practice of any evil work. Elijah says to Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel lives before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these three years (1 Kings 17:1). Where the prophet confi…

See, the pardoning of their sin is expounded to be the removing of the locusts and pestilence. And to call sins to remembrance, is to punish sin: the Shunammite says, (1 Kings 17:18). Are you come to me (O man of God) to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son? Job compla…

He can make a little means go far. As he blessed the pulse to the captive children (Daniel 1:15), and made the widow's barrel of meal, and cruse of oil to hold out (1 Kings 17:14), and his filling and feeding five thousand with a few barley loaves, and a few fishes (Matthew 14:2…

Why, certainly he had great acquaintance with his God in secret. Take one instance what his practice was (1 Kings 17:19-24). It is the memorable History of raising the widow woman's dead Son.

This due time may be understood in part of this life: for godliness has the promise of this life, as well as of the life to come, and the works of mercy have been even in this life recompensed to the full. The widow of Zarephath for entertaining the Prophet Elijah, was miraculou…

It is no wonder then if Hezekiah asks one, seeing the Lord is pleased to offer the same voluntarily to others. Yet we are to note, that the faithful have not asked signs of their own heads, but were led so to do by the special instinct of the Holy Ghost, which may also be affirm…

He throws out an indirect hint as to their vanity and presumption, in entertaining a dislike of him, because he had been brought up among them. When there was a great famine for three years and a half, there were many widows in Israel, whose want of food Elijah was not commanded…

He will go before, by a remarkable power of the Spirit, to proclaim the great and dreadful day of the Lord.” The Jews, with their usual grossness of interpretation, had applied this to Elijah the Tishbite, (1 Kings 17:1,) as if he were to appear again and discharge the office of…

We have stated elsewhere the origin of that error which prevailed among the Jews. As John the Baptist was to resemble Elijah by restoring the fallen condition of the Church, the prophet Malachi (4:5,6) had even given to him the name of Elijah; and this had been rashly interprete…

Affliction naturally speaks Anger, and Anger respects Sin. It bespeaks it self to be God's Messenger to call Sin to remembrance, 1 Kings 17. 8. Gen. 42. 21, 22.

Ah how unwilling are we to surrender to the Lord the Loan which he lent us! to be disquieted by troubles when at ease in our enjoyments! How unwelcome are the messengers of affliction to the best men! we are ready to say to them as the Widow to Elijah, What have I to do with you…

Thus that peevish prophet; I do well to be angry to the death (Jonah 4). 2. Discontent is accompanied with unthankfulness; because we have not all we desire, we never mind the mercies which we have: we deal with God as the widow of Zarephath did with the prophet; the prophet Eli…

When the candle of prosperity shines upon us, we may light our neighbor who is in the dark and have no less light ourselves. Whatever is disbursed to godly uses, God brings it in by some other way; as the loaves in the breaking multiplied, or as the widow's oil increased by pour…