1 Kings 17

1 Kings, chapter 17 1 Kings 17 1 Kings 16 chapter 16 1 Kings 18 chapter 18 First book of Kings Old Testament 11 Nevi'im 4 Former Prophets Leningrad-codex-09-kings.pdf 250px The pages containing the Books of Kings (1 & 2 Kings) Leningrad Codex (1008 CE). 1 Kings 17 is the seventeenth chapter of the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible or the First Book of Kings in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.Halley 1965 197–198Collins 2014 288 The book is a compilation of various annals recording the acts of the kings of Israel and Judah by a Deuteronomic compiler in the seventh century BCE, with a supplement added in the sixth century BCE.McKane 1993 324 This chapter belongs to the section comprising 1 Kings 16:15 to 2 Kings 8:29 which documents the period of Omri's dynasty.Dietrich 2007 244 The focus of this chapter is the activity of prophet Elijah during the reign of king Ahab in the northern kingdom.Dietrich 2007 245 Text This chapter was originally written in the Hebrew language and since the 16th century is divided into 24 verses. Textual witnesses Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), Aleppo Codex (10th century), and Codex Leningradensis (1008).Würthwein 1995 35-37 There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; B; 4th century) and Codex Alexandrinus (A; A; 5th century).Würthwein 1995 73-74The whole book of 1 Kings is missing from the extant Codex Sinaiticus.Codex Sinaiticus Elijah's conflict with Ahab and his flight (17:1–6) right|thumb|200px|"Elijah and the Raven" by anonymous painter, between c. 1600 and 1699. Albright-Knox Art Gallery Following the list of Ahab's mistakes in the previous chapter, prophet Elijah suddenly appeared to confront the king with Yahweh's word against Ahab's policy of syncretizing the worship of Yahweh and Baal, and declaring the war against Baal (as the god of fertility and rain) that the land would suffer drought and hunger (only Yahweh can control rain).Dietrich 2007 245Coogan 2007 521 Hebrew Bible This set up a tense conflict between the worship of the two deities which would be resolved in 1 Kings 18:41-5.Dietrich 2007 245 As soon as he finished with his message, Elijah withdrew to a small east Jordanian river valley, being fed by the usually greedy (ravenous) ravens.Dietrich 2007 245 Verse 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the Lord God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at my word."1 Kings 17:1 NKJV NKJV "Elijah": his name means: 'My God is Yahweh!', and his stories depict him as a man led by God and obedient to him.Dietrich 2007 245 "Tishbite": or "from Tishbe", here is a place in Gilead,Confirmed by Josephus in Ant. viii. 13, 2, that he was grc ἐκ πόλεως θεσβώνης τῆς Γαλααδίτιδος χώρας, apud Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges. 1 Kings 17. Accessed 28 April 2019. not a place with similar name in the territory of Naphtali, which was the birthplace of Tobit (Tobit 1:2).Ellicott, C. J. (Ed.) (1905). Ellicott's Bible Commentary for English Readers. 1 Kings 17. London : Cassell and Company, Limited, [1905-1906] Online version: (OCoLC) 929526708. Accessed 28 April 2019. "These years": or "these following years", which were three and a half years according to Luke 4:25 and James 5:17.Benson, Joseph. Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. 1 Kings 17. Accessed 9 Juli 2019. Elijah and the widow in Zarephath (17:7–16) thumb|Elijah and the widow in Sarepta (Zarephath). A sculpture at Sayn Abbey After a period of time, Elijah experienced the same drought as the people of Israel, with the brook near where he lived, the wadi Cherith (see verse 3), running dry, so God sent him to the Sidon region, on the coast of Phoenicia (modern Lebanon), home of Queen Jezebel, and the heartland of Baal worship (cf. 1 Kings 16:31).Dietrich 2007 245Coogan 2007 522 Hebrew Bible Elijah was to find a widow to feed him there by having randomly asked a woman at the gates of Zarephath for water and then for bread. When she claimed, 'as Yahweh your God lives', that she and her son are starving themselves, Elijah repeated his wish, but adding the soothing words, 'Do not be afraid', and a prophecy of an endless supply of food, which happened as Elijah had said.Dietrich 2007 245 Elijah awakens the dead (17:17–24) thumb|right|150px|Elijah reviving the Son of the Widow of Zarephath by Louis Hersent Raising of the son of the widow of Zarephath This story as the previous one involves the same three people and deals with the same question of whether it is worthwhile to support the men of God, whose presence might bring not only death (by revealing sins and bestowing punishment, verse 18), but also life.Dietrich 2007 245 The narrative is closely related to that in 2 Kings 4:18-37, showing that while a prophet 'plays the role of a magician reviving a dead soul by a ritual action', only God has the authority over life and death (the prophet had to plead twice to God).Dietrich 2007 245Coogan 2007 523 Hebrew Bible There are notable parallels of this narrative with the raising of the son of the widow of Nain in Luke 7,Fred Craddock, Luke, 2009 0664234356 page 43, 95–8 especially some verbal parallels.The People's New Testament Commentary - M. Eugene Boring, Fred B. Craddock - 2004 Page 204 "7:11-17 RAISING THE WIDOW'S SON This story is only in Luke, but it has many points of contact with the story of Elijah's raising the widow of Zarephath's son (1 Kgs. 17:8-24), including such verbatim parallels as "he gave him to his mother" ..." The raising of the son of the woman of Shunem (2 Kings 4) by Elisha is also similar, giving an example of a repeated pattern in the history of redemption.Sinclair Ferguson, Preaching Christ from the Old Testament https://web.archive.org/web/20130903060849/http://www.proctrust.org.uk/dls/christ_paper.pdf 2013-09-03 , Proclamation Trust, 2002, page 12. See also 22em Cherith Gilead Idolatry Israel Jordan River Prophet Zarephath Related Bible parts: 1 Kings 16, 2 Kings 4, 2 Chronicles 17, Luke 4, Luke 7, James 5 Notes References Sources Collins John J. Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures Chapter 14: 1 Kings 12 – 2 Kings 25 277–296 Fortress Press 2014 https://books.google.com/books?id=fbsoBAAAQBAJ 978-1451469233 Coogan Michael David Michael D. Coogan The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books: New Revised Standard Version, Issue 48 Coogan Michael David Marc Zvi Brettler Carol Ann Newsom Pheme Perkins Augmented 3rd Oxford University Press 2007 978-0195288810 https://books.google.com/books?id=HmpMPgAACAAJ Dietrich Walter 13. 1 and 2 Kings The Oxford Bible Commentary John Barton John Barton (theologian) John Muddiman John Muddiman Oxford University Press first (paperback) 2007 232–266 978-0199277186 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJdVkgEACAAJ February 6, 2019 Halley Henry H. Henry Hampton Halley Halley's Bible Handbook: an abbreviated Bible commentary 24th (revised) Zondervan Publishing House 1965 https://archive.org/details/halleysbiblehand00henr registration 0-310-25720-4 Hayes Christine Introduction to the Bible Yale University Press 2015 https://books.google.com/books?id=SKbkXYHxvlAC 978-0300188271 Leithart Peter J. 1 & 2 Kings Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible Brazos Press 2006 https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_gvin9G7LgC 978-1587431258 McKane William Kings, Book of Metzger Bruce M Bruce M. Metzger Coogan Michael D The Oxford Companion to the Bible https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780195046458 registration Oxford University Press 1993 409–413 978-0195046458 Metzger Bruce M Bruce M. Metzger Coogan Michael D The Oxford Companion to the Bible Oxford University Press 1993 978-0195046458 Würthwein Ernst Ernst Würthwein The Text of the Old Testament Wm. B. Eerdmans Grand Rapids, MI 1995 Erroll F. Rhodes 0-8028-0788-7 https://books.google.com/books?id=FSNKSBObCYwC January 26, 2019 External links Jewish translations: Melachim I - I Kings - Chapter 17 (Judaica Press). Hebrew text and English translation [with Rashi's commentary] at Chabad.org Christian translations: Online Bible at GospelHall.org (ESV, KJV, Darby, American Standard Version, Bible in Basic English) 1 Kings chapter 17. Bible Gateway 17 Category:Hebrew Bible chapters about Elijah Category:Phoenicians in the Hebrew Bible Category:Baal Category:Resurrection Category:Jezebel