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Jun 25, 2019 · Elijah - Boldest of the Prophets. Profile of Elijah, a Man Who Did Not Die. Elijah stood up boldly for God in a time when idolatry had swept his land. In fact, his name means "My God is Yah (weh)." The false god Elijah opposed was Baal, the favorite deity of Jezebel, wife of King Ahab of Israel. To please Jezebel, Ahab had altars erected to ...
Aug 28, 2023 · The name Elijah means “ Jehovah is my God.”. The name Elisha means “God is my salvation.”. Certainly, fitting names for the roles these two prophets played in the history of Israel. The very first we read of Elijah is in 1 Kings, where he is already an accomplished and well-known prophet of the Lord.
Sep 9, 2022 · Elijah is credited with at least eight miracles, including calling down fire from heaven. Others include shutting up the heavens to cause a drought, multiplying flour and oil for a desperate widow, raising the widow’s son from the dead, calling out rain to end the drought, destroying two different groups of soldiers with fire and lightning, and parting the waters of the Jordan.
Introduction. 23 Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!” 24 When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up ...
Elijah Announces a Great Drought. 17 Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe[ a] in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”. Elijah Fed by Ravens. 2 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah: 3 “Leave here, turn eastward and hide ...
ATS Bible Dictionary. Elijah. The prophet, a native of Tishbeh in Gilead, 1 Kings 17:1. His parentage and early history are unknown. His bold faithfulness provoked the wrath of Ahab and Jezebel, especially when he threatened several years of drought and famine as a punishment for the sins of Israel, B. C. 908.
Elijah's name means "God the Lord, the strong Lord" and Elisha's means "salvation of God." If you are questioning a blood relationship between them, there is none. Except for a mention in 1Kings 17:1, we know nothing of their parentage or early life. We do know that the latter was a native of Abel-Meholah in the northern kingdom of Israel.
