1 Kings 19

True peace is after trouble. First there was the earthquake, and then the fire, and then the still small voice (1 Kings 19:11). You who never had any legal bruisings may suspect your peace; God pours the golden oil of peace into broken hearts.

Water when it is hot soon boils over: So when the heart is heated with anger, it soon boils over in fiery and passionate speeches. 1 Kings 19:12. after the earthquake a fire, but God was not in the fire: So I may say of the fire of rash anger, God is not in this fire. Grace heat…

(1 Corinthians 10:13) There has no temptation taken you, but that which is [illegible], common to man, indeed, to the best: men, Christ's lambs who have had the earmark of election upon them, have been set upon by the wolf. Elijah that could shut Heaven by prayer, could not shut…

When our Savior Christ knew that the Pharisees heard of the multitude of Disciples which he made, John 4:1-3, he left Judea, where they had greatest jurisdiction, and came into Galilee, for his safety. The Prophet in the Old Testament did fly: as, Elijah from Jezebel: 1 Kings 19…

The words in the original, are thus: Escaped the mouth of the sword: which is the Hebrew phrase in the old Testament, and here followed by the Penman of this Epistle; and before, where he calleth the word of God a two mouthed sword, Hebrews 4.12: hereby meaning (as it is transla…

3. 'Tis an happy life, not subjected to the necessities of meat and drink, we have then spiritual bodies (1 Corinthians 15:45). 'Tis not encumbered with miseries, as the present life is (Genesis 47:9); 'tis a life which we are never weary of; in deep distresses life it self may…

Ah, this goes close to honest hearts! But though God allows — indeed commands — the most awakened apprehensions of these calamities, and in such a day calls to mourning, weeping, and girding with sackcloth (Isaiah 22:12), and severely threatens the insensible (Amos 6:1), yet it…

All sinful actions are like to the sowing of the wind in the earth: Now we know if windy vapors be got into the earth, they cause earthquakes, they break forth into whirlwinds, into violence: and so wicked actions they break forth into violence and irresistable evils, and wil ca…

We have no Institution for worship but where people may personally join together: but for thousands of Congregations to be bound by Institution to join in the very same bond of worship, in the very same individual act, such a union we have not in these days, and without the unde…

Notwithstanding the great diversity of opinions about the issue of some of these awakenings, yet I know of none that have denied that there have been great awakenings of late, in these times and places, and that multitudes have been brought to more than common concern for their…

To these things they added genuflection, or prostration of the body with kisses: 1 Kings 16:31, "He served Baal and bowed down to him." Hence God distinguishes the remnant who feared Him from the deserters, in that they "had not bowed the knee, nor given kisses to Baal" (1 Kings…

By feeling of the heart, we choose, love, desire, delight, are zealous in the good thing itself, that it may be done; to refuse, hate, abhor, and are zealous against the known evil (Amos 5:14; Philippians 1:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:1). Among these, zeal is an earnest affection of th…

1. That he fasted forty days, and forty nights; so did Moses when he received the law (Exodus 34:28). And at the restoring of the law Elijah did the like (1 Kings 19:8). Now what these two great prophets had done, Christ the great prophet and doctor of the Christian Church, did…

Thus we find them often employed. An Angel brought Elijah his food under the Juniper Tree (1 Kings 19:5). An Angel stirred the waters at the Pool of Siloam (John 5:4).

Both had ventured their lives, Moses by encountering Pharaoh, and Elias Ahab. Both had seen the glory of God in Mount Horeb, and spoke with God also, Moses (Exodus 33:11) he saw the Lord face to face, and spoke with him as a man does with his friend, and Elias (1 Kings 19). Both…

Where need is, there a man may commit himself to the providence of God, and rely upon him; and where means fail us, God can help us by prerogative, that we may say with Abraham, when we have no help present, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen (Genesis 22:14), and with Mos…

You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them. Bowing the knee (1 Kings 19:18). I have left me seven thousand in Israel, which have not bowed the knee to Baal.

Therefore it was a comfort to Christ to have solemn messengers sent from heaven to applaud his triumph. (2.) Outward, they were sent to serve him, either to convey him back from the mountain, where Satan had set him; or to bring him food, as they did to Elijah (1 Kings 19:5-6):…

Because of their weakness and infirmity he lays aside his majesty, and reassumes the habit of his humiliation; as Moses did put a veil upon his face, that the people might endure his sight and presence. God's appearing at first may be terrible, but the issue is sweet and comfort…

When Paul says, I travail, he signifies the measure of his Ministerial pains, that they were as the travail of a woman with child: and this he shows plainly in the particulars (2 Corinthians 11:23). Elias, that was sent in his time to restore religion, was at length so wearied i…

Again, great is the abuse of meat, drink, and apparel. To Elijah there came an Angel and said, arise and eat (1 Kings 19:7): but to the men of our days, there had need come an Angel and say, cease to eat, cease to drink, cease to game. The third question is, what is the right us…

For with the heart, man believes to righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses to salvation (Romans 10:10). For this cause the Lord approves of their integrity and uprightness in his service, that had not so much as bowed a knee to Baal (1 Kings 19:18). Saint Paul applies th…

Many had, no doubt, been slain in other places, and particularly at the time when that cruel fury, “Cette cruelle diablesse;” — “that cruel female devil.” Jezebel, (1 Kings 19:2,) raged against them; but because in no other place had the prophets, at any time, been fiercely torm…

Elijah, that great Prophet, who had so much holy Familiarity with God, at a Time of special Nearness to God, even when he conversed with him in the Mount, wrapped his Face in his Mantle. Which was not because he was terrified with any servile Fear, by the terrible Wind, and Eart…

So Psal. 1. 4. And in this sense sometimes it signifies a violent and strong Wind; that is, [[original in non-Latin script]], 1 Kings 19. 11. And sometimes a cool and soft Wind, or a light easie agitation of the Air, such as often arises in the Evenings of the Spring or Summer;…

The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. And therefore in the greater transgressions of the Law, the people were said to forsake, to break, to profane, to transgress the covenant of God (Leviticus 26:15; Deuteronomy 3:20; Chap. 17:2; Hosea 6:7; Joshua 7:11; 2 Kings 18:…

§ 31 The place they came to, is called the Wilderness of Sinai, v. 2. and so was the Mountain also it self whereon the glorious majesty of God appeared, v. 20. It was also called Horeb (Exodus 3:1): He came to the Mountain of God even to Horeb, where they were to serve God, v. 1…

And setting aside that actual inspiration by the Holy Ghost, which they had for the declaration and writing of that Word of God which came to them in particular, and the prophets themselves were subject to mistakes. So was Samuel when he thought Eliab should have been the Lord's…

And it is stirred especially when the ear of a man is filled with a voice of blasphemy, or his eye with a spectacle of bold transcendent wickedness against the Lord. Word being brought to Hezekiah of the blasphemy that Rabshakeh had belched out against God, when he heard how he…

So likewise bowing the knee to any idol, and kissing it (Hosea 13:2): Let the men that sacrifice, kiss the calves. And so when Elijah complained of the total defection of the Israelites from the service of the true God, to idolatry; God to comfort and encourage him, tells him, T…

2. Nor should Christians be unwilling to know the spiritual condition one of another; you may fall upon some, in your very course and kind. It is like David (Psalm 71:7), Heman (Psalm 88:15), the suffering Church (Lamentations 1:12; Psalm 102:6, 7), Elias (1 Kings 19:10), Isaiah…

There may be an earthquake in the zeal of a meekened Elias; there was no godly men on earth left but himself, as his angry zeal said to him, and the Lord knew 7000 besides him. The Lords way of appearing to Elias (1 Kings 19) taught him some other thing; for the Lord was neither…

1. To consider the circumstances of that which we apprehend to be a provocation, so as at no time to express our displeasure but upon due and mature deliberation. The office of meekness is to keep reason upon the throne in the soul, as it ought to be, to preserve the understandi…

Moses dealt with a very obstinate and stiff-necked people, and yet my doctrine (says he) shall drop as the dew, and distil as the small rain (Deuteronomy 32:2). It was not the wind, nor the earthquake, nor the fire that brought Elijah into temper (for the Lord was not in them) b…

When the Lord himself speaks by this his Spirit to a man, selecting and calling him out of the lost world, he can no more disobey than Abraham did when the Lord spoke to him after an extraordinary manner to depart from his own country and kindred (Genesis 12:4): Abraham departed…

To swim against the common stream of evil shews Grace to be alive. The Prophet Elias continuing zealous for the Lord of Hosts, when they had digged down Gods Altars, 1 Kings 19:10. shewed his heart and lips had been touched with a Coal from the Altar. 1 Use. See hence how unwort…

When men are vexed with the world, they look upon death as a relief, to take vengeance upon God, to deprive him of a servant. 2. In deep sorrow, as Job 3:3, Elijah, 1 Kings 19:4: He requested for himself, that he might die; and he said, It is enough, now, O Lord, take away my li…

(Malachi 3:16) "Then they that feared the Lord, spoke often one to another." There are many advantages attending the communion of saints, their very sight and presence is a confirmation to us; many times that temptation befalls us, which befell Elijah; we think we are left alone…

Had God granted his desire, he had lost thirty years of eminent service in the world. It was an irregular passion in Elias, when the persecutions of wicked men so tired him, as to make him say, in (1 Kings 19:4), O Lord, take away my life. It has been an observation, that many g…

Christ has now taken you into his banqueting house; be sure to take this happy advantage to establish your faith, and every grace. Think there may come a spending time again, and how much it concerns you to be better stored against it comes, than formerly: Consider therefore, an…

Not when I was upon the throne, but in the house of my pilgrimage (Psalm 119:54). We read, "The Lord was not in the wind, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire" (1 Kings 19:11). But in a metaphorical and spiritual sense, when the wind of affliction blows upon a believer, God is…

Let us take heed of this; it is hateful to God. God is not in this fire, but in the still small voice (1 Kings 19:12). Objection: But did not the apostle Paul call the Galatians fools (Galatians 3:1)?

Though they must be lions for courage, yet lambs for peaceableness. God was not in the earthquake nor in the fire, but in the still, small voice (1 Kings 19:12). God is not in the rough, fiery spirit but in the peaceable spirit.

So Elijah passed by Elisha, and cast his Mantle upon him as a transient Act. But there was such a Communication of Virtue thereby, that he ran after him, and would not be deferred, though Elijah said, go back again, for what have I done to you, 1 Kings 19:19, 20. When God has so…

Obadiah the governor of Ahab's house, hid a hundred men of the Lord's Prophets, by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water, when Jezebel would have destroyed them (1 Kings 18:13). Elijah being in fear of his life, fled from Jezebel into Mount Horeb (1 Kings 19:3). Aga…

4. That it serve for the immediate preservation of life, health, or goods. Of life; thus Elias continued his flight from Jezabel many Sabbaths together (1 Kings 19:8). And the reason is good: the Sabbath was made for man (says Christ) that is, not for the hurt, but for the good…

David in like manner (2 Samuel 13:20, 21) was angry upon this occasion, because Amnon his son had defiled his sister Tamar. Elias is angry (1 Kings 19:14), and why? Because the Israelites forsook the covenant of God, cast down his altars, and had slain his prophets with the swor…

By what reasons are they confuted? (1) Because, the church of God, in the Prophet Elijah's time was brought to that pass, that he thought none remained but himself (1 Kings 19:10; Romans 11:2-4). (2) Because, for a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teachin…

So the worshipping of Baal, is called bowing the knee to Baal. They that bowed the knee to him or his image, in their so doing worshipped him (1 Kings 19:18; Romans 11:4). And where God promises to bring all nations to the worship of himself he says, they shall bow the knee to h…