1 Kings 18:42

Contextual Overview

⁴¹ And Eliiah sayde vnto Ahab, Get thee vp, eate and drinke, for there is a sound of much rayne. ⁴¹ Eliyah said to Ach'av, Get you up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain. ⁴¹ Then Elijah said to King Ahab, "Now go eat and drink. A heavy rain is coming." ⁴¹ And Elijah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink, for there is a sound of the rushing of rain." ⁴¹Now Elijah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of the roar of an abundance of rain." ⁴¹ And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain. ⁴¹ Then Elijah said to Ahab, Up! take food and drink, for there is a sound of much rain. ⁴¹ Elijah told Ahab, "Get something to eat and drink. I hear a heavy rain coming." ⁴¹ Then Eliyahu said to Ach'av, "Get up, eat, and drink, because I hear the sound of heavy rain." ⁴¹ And Elijah said unto Ahab: 'Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.'

Bible Verse Review
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Elijah: 1 Kings 18:19, Matthew 14:23, Luke 6:12, Acts 10:9

he cast himself: Genesis 24:52, Joshua 7:6, 2 Samuel 12:16, Daniel 9:3, Mark 14:35, James 5:16-18

put his face: 1 Kings 19:13, Ezra 9:6, Psalms 89:7, Isaiah 6:2, Isaiah 38:2, Daniel 9:7

Reciprocal: Joshua 15:55 - Carmel Joshua 19:26 - Carmel 1 Samuel 15:12 - Carmel 2 Kings 1:9 - he sat 2 Kings 2:25 - mount Carmel 2 Kings 4:25 - to mount Jeremiah 46:18 - Carmel Mark 9:2 - an high James 5:18 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Ahab went up to eat and to drink,.... Up to his chariot, as some think, or rather to some place higher than that in which he now was:

and Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; higher still, where he both might be alone, and have the opportunity of observing the clouds gathering, and the rain coming:

and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees; expressive of his humility, and of his earnestness, and vehement desire, and continued importunity, that rain might fall; for this was a posture of prayer he put himself into, and continued in; and it is certain that it was through his prayer that rain came, James 5:18 and from hence came the fable of the Grecians concerning Aeacus praying for rain in a time of drought, when it came h. So the Chinese writers i report that at the prayers of their emperor Tangus, after a seven years' drought, great rains fell.

h Pausan. Attica, sive, l. 1. prope finem. Isocrat. Evagoras, p. 373. i Martin. Sinic. Hist. l. 3. p. 60.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ahab could feast; Elijah could not, or would not. Ascending Carmel not quite to the highest elevation 1 Kings 18:43, but to a point, a little below the highest, from where the sea was not visible, he proceeded to pray earnestly for rain, as he had prayed formerly that it might not rain.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 18:42. Put his face between his knees — He kneeled down, and then bowed his head to the earth, so that, while his face was between his knees, his forehead touched the ground.