Lièwángjìshang 19:8

8 Tā jiù qǐlai chī le hē le , zhàng zhe zhè yǐnshí de lì , zǒu le sì shí zhòuyè , dào le shén de shān , jiù shì Héliè shān .

Lièwángjìshang 19:8 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 19:8

And he arose, and did eat and drink
Of what was left of the cake and cruse of water, before provided for him:

and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights
unto Horeb the mount of God;
for so long he was going to that place, though it might have been gone in three or four days; but he went in byways, and wandered about in the wilderness, as the Israelites did, and that for the space of forty days, as they did near forty years; and all this while he had no other sustenance than what he had taken under the juniper tree, from whence he set out, which must be supernatural; for it is said ^F20, a man cannot live without food beyond seven days, (See Gill on Exodus 24:18) the food either staying in his stomach all this while, or however the nutritive virtue of it, by which he was supported, and held out till he came to Horeb or Sinai; called the mount of the Lord, because here he had appeared to Moses in the bush, and from hence gave the law to the children of Israel. Abarbinel is of opinion that this term of forty days was consumed in his whole journey to Horeb, his stay there, and return to the land of Israel.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 Macrob. in Soma Scipion. l. 1. c. 6.

Lièwángjìshang 19:8 In-Context

6 tā guānkàn , jiàn tóu páng yǒu yī píng shuǐ yǔ tànhuǒ shāo de bǐng , tā jiù chī le hē le , réngrán tǎng xià .

7 Yēhéhuá de shǐzhĕ dì èr cì lái pāi tā , shuō , qǐlai chī ba . yīnwei nǐ dāng zǒu de lù shén yuǎn .

8 Tā jiù qǐlai chī le hē le , zhàng zhe zhè yǐnshí de lì , zǒu le sì shí zhòuyè , dào le shén de shān , jiù shì Héliè shān .

9 Tā zaì nàli jìn le yī gè dòng , jiù zhù zaì dòng zhōng . Yēhéhuá de huà líndào tā shuō , Yǐlìyà a , nǐ zaì zhèlǐ zuò shénme .

10 Tā shuō , wǒ wèi Yēhéhuá wàn jūn zhī shén dà fā rèxīn . yīnwei Yǐsèliè rén beìqì le nǐde yuē , huǐhuaì le nǐde tán , yòng dāo shā le nǐde xiānzhī , zhǐ shèngxia wǒ yī gèrén , tāmen hái yào xún suǒ wǒde méng .