1 Kings 18:27

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.

Elijah

For he is a god

Isaiah 41:23

He is talking

Mark 4:38

General references

Judges 10:14

Bible References

Elijah

When he came to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we refrain?” And he answered him, “Go up and succeed, and the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”

But if you do go, do it, be strong for the battle; yet God will bring you down before the enemy, for God has power to help and to bring down.”

Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the

desires of your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.

“Be broken, O peoples, and be

shattered;

And give ear, all remote places of the earth.
Gird yourselves, yet be shattered;
Gird yourselves, yet be shattered.

Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and falls down before it.

“As for you, O house of Israel,” thus says the Lord God, “Go, serve everyone his idols; but later you will surely listen to Me, and My holy name you will profane no longer with your gifts and with your idols.

“Enter Bethel and transgress;
In Gilgal multiply transgression!

Bring your sacrifices every morning,

Your tithes every three days.

Then He *came to the disciples and *said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.

He was also saying to them, “You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition.

And He *came the third time, and *said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? It is enough; the hour has come; behold, the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.

For he is a god

Declare the things that are going to come afterward,

That we may know that you are gods;
Indeed, do good or evil, that we may anxiously look about us and fear together.

He is talking

Arouse Yourself, why do You sleep, O Lord?

Awake, do not reject us forever.

Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep,
Like a warrior overcome by wine.

Behold, He who keeps Israel
Will neither slumber nor sleep.

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord;

Awake as in the days of old, the generations of long ago.

Was it not You who cut Rahab in pieces,

Who pierced the dragon?

Jesus Himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they *woke Him and *said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”

General references

Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress.”