And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
Ver. 46. And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah.] He was filled with, and acted by a supernatural ability and agility, ut pedes regem equitantem anteiret, that he run before the king's chariot, whereinto the king should have done well to have taken him.