1 Kings 17:3

1 Kings 22:25; Acts 17:14; Hebrews 11:38; Jeremiah 36:19; Jeremiah 36:26; John 8:59; Psalms 31:20; Psalms 83:3; Revelation 12:14; Revelation 12:6

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Brook Cherith - Rather, “the torrent course,” one of the many which carry the winter rains from the highlands into that stream.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Elijah is Fed by Ravens, and Raises the Widow's Son. Elijah appeared suddenly: we hear nothing of his birth or parentage. He simply announced to Ah...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

before Jordan: i.e. on the east side.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. Hide thyself by the brook Cherith - This broo...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Brook Cherith— This brook, and the valley through which it runs, are both very near the river Jordan; but whether on the east or west side is not s...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. Get thee hence ... At first the king ma...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Elijah and the Widow of Zarephath The prophet Elijah, who occupies so large a space in the succeeding history, is, like his successor Elisha, cons...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hide thyself ] The prophets of the Lord were in danger from the anger of Jezebel: cp. 1 Kings 18:13 . Brook ] strictly, a ravine or torrent-valle...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The brook Cherith — properly “the torrent (or valley) Cherith, facing the Jordan;” evidently one of the ravines running into the Jordan valley; pro...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

ELIJAH 1 Kings 17:1-7 "And Elias the prophet stood up as fire, and his word was burning as a torch." - Sir 48:1 "But that two-handed engine a...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Sin's Climax Summons Jehovah's Prophet 1 Kings 16:29-34 ; 1 Kings 17:1-7 From the beginning of his reign Ahab set aside both the First and the...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here began a new order, the prophetic. Of course there had been prophets before, but with the coming of Elijah the office was elevated to national im...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(2) And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, (3) Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward ,.... From the place where he was, being in danger from Ahab and Jezebel, provoked by his reproofs, threateni...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that [is] before Jordan. Ver. 3. Get thee hence. ] It was a sweet p...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hide thyself by the brook Cherith A brook, no doubt, well known to Elijah: both it and the valley through which it runs, are near the river Jordan;...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

ELIJAH PROPHESIES A DROUGHT (vs.1-7) Ahab was suddenly confronted by a prophet who had never been mentioned before, Elijah the Tishbite, the fir...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Elijah's First Prophecy; Elijah Fed by Ravens. B. C. 910....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Thus God rescues him from the fury of Ahab and Jezebel, who he knew would seek to destroy him. Quest. Why did not Ahab seize upon him immediately u...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Elijah Is Fed By Ravens At The Brook Cherith ( 1 Kings 17:2-7 ). Having made his public declaration Elijah was then advised by YHWH to go to the e...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 1 Kings 17:3 . Hide thyself by the brook Cherith —He should “hide,” in order to escape alike the king’s violenc...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Kings 17:1 . Elijah the Tishbite. His parentage is not named, but the Jews call him a levite or a priest. He swore to Ahab in the name, not of B...
The Biblical Illustrator

The word of the Lord came unto him. The word of the Lord We have in our theme a suggestion of the Divine guidance. The word of the Lord as a gu...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION ELIJAH AND THE GREAT DROUGHT .—The picture which the historian has just drawn of the shameless idolatry and the gross degene...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Famine
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Get thee hence and turn thee eastward, out of the reach of Ahab's and Jezebel's anger, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, apparently a perennia...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

Jehovah-Jireh Selections from 1 Kings 17:1-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Our God is the God who is enough. There is no good thing which He withho...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hide thyself — Thus God rescues him from the fury of Ahab and Jezebel, who, he knew, would seek to destroy him. That Ahab did not seize on him imme...

³ Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

Related Commentaries of 1 Kings 17:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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