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1 Kings 19:16-21

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16 and 1Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint king over Israel; and 2Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place.
17 "It shall come about, the 3one who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu 4shall put to death, and the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall put to death.
18 "5Yet I will leave 7,000 * in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not 6kissed him."
19 So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, while he was plowing with twelve * pairs of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth *. And Elijah passed over to him and threw 7his mantle on him.
20 He left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, "Please 8let me kiss my father and my mother, then I will follow * you." And he said to him, "Go back again, for what have I done to you?"
21 So he returned from following him, and took the pair of oxen and sacrificed them and 9boiled their flesh with the implements of the oxen, and gave it to the people and they ate. Then he arose and followed * Elijah and ministered to him.
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1 Kings 19:16-21 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 19

This chapter gives us a further account of Elijah, of his being obliged to flee for his life through the threats of Jezebel, 1Ki 19:1-4, of the care the Lord took of him, providing food for him, in the strength of which he went to Horeb, 1Ki 19:5-8, of the Lord's appearance to him there, and conversation with him, 1Ki 19:9-14, of some instructions he gave him to anoint a king over Syria, another over Israel, and a prophet in his room, 1Ki 19:15-18, and of his finding Elisha, and throwing his mantle over him, who left his secular employment, and followed him, and became his servant, 1Ki 19:19-21.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 9

  • 1. 2 Kings 9:1-10
  • 2. 1 Kings 19:19-21; 2 Kings 2:9, 15
  • 3. 2 Kings 8:12; 2 Kings 13:3, 22
  • 4. 2 Kin 9:14-10:25
  • 5. Romans 11:4
  • 6. Hosea 13:2
  • 7. 1 Samuel 28:14; 2 Kin 2:8, 13, 14
  • 8. Matthew 8:21, 22; Luke 9:61, 62; Acts 20:37
  • 9. 2 Samuel 24:22
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