Elijah in the Bible

Meaning: God the Lord, the strong Lordpar

Exact Match

But how did God answer him? [I Kings 19:18 says], "I [i.e., God] have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed their knee [in worship] to Baal [Note: "Baal" was a term used for one of the idols worshiped in Elijah's day by Canaanites and others in Palestine].

Verse ConceptsBaal Worship, HistorySeven ThousandBowing To False GodsSurvivors Of Israel

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Elijah was a man like us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months there was no rain in the land. Then he prayed again, and the heavens yielded rain and the earth produced crops.






















He will go before him with the spirit and the power of Elijah, to reconcile fathers to their children, and to bring the disobedient back to the wisdom of upright men, to make a people perfectly ready for the Lord."

and, if you are ready to accept the idea, he is himself Elijah who was to come.

They said, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets."

The disciples asked him, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?" He answered, "Elijah does come and is to reform everything, but I tell you, Elijah has come already, and they would not recognize him, but treated him just as they pleased. It is in just that way that the Son of Man is going to be treated by them!"

He said to them, "Elijah does come first, and reforms everything, and does not the Scripture say of the Son of Man that he will suffer much and be refused? Why, I tell you, not only has Elijah come, but people have treated him just as they pleased, as the Scripture says about him."



Elijah was a man like us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months there was no rain in the land.




He will go before him with the spirit and the power of Elijah, to reconcile fathers to their children, and to bring the disobedient back to the wisdom of upright men, to make a people perfectly ready for the Lord."

Elijah was a man like us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months there was no rain in the land.



God has not repudiated his people, which he had marked out from the first. Do you not know what the Scripture says in speaking of Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel?








And Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with him.



And Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with him. And Peter spoke, and said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! If you wish, I will make three huts here, one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

And Elijah appeared to them, accompanied by Moses, and they talked with Jesus.

And two men were talking with him. They were Moses and Elijah,





Elijah was a man like us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months there was no rain in the land. Then he prayed again, and the heavens yielded rain and the earth produced crops.




Elijah was a man like us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months there was no rain in the land.



When the disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Master, will you have us order fire to come down from heaven and consume them?"



















































































Elijah was a man like us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months there was no rain in the land.













and Elijah was not sent to one of them, but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.












Then he prayed again, and the heavens yielded rain and the earth produced crops.



Elijah was a man like us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months there was no rain in the land.































Elijah was a man like us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months there was no rain in the land.
























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