The Spirit of the Lord shall carry thee. — In this phrase there is perhaps a survival of the original physical sense of the word “Spirit” — the whirlwind which is “the breath of the Lord.” (Comp. 2 Kings 2:16; Acts 8:39.) To Obadiah it seemed that only by such miraculous agency could Elijah have been removed from the persecution for so long a time, and that, having emerged for a moment, he will be swept away into his hidden refuge again.
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1 Kings 18:12
12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.