1 Kings 1:1
old <02204> [old.]
David was probably now about sixty-nine years of age. He was thirty years old when he began to reign, reigned forty, and died in his seventieth year; and the transactions mentioned here are supposed to have taken place about a year before his death. Sixty-nine was not an advanced age; but he had been exhausted with various fatigues, and especially family afflictions, so that he was much older in constitution than in years.
old <0935 03117> [and stricken in years. Heb. and entered into days.]
1 Kings 1:7
collaborated <01697> [And he conferred. Heb. his words were.]
Joab <03097> [Joab.]
Abiathar <054> [Abiathar.]
supported him <0138 05826 0310> [following Adonijah helped him. Heb. helped after Adonijah.]
1 Kings 6:33
four-sided <07243> [a fourth part. or, four square.]
1 Kings 8:34
forgive ... sin <02403 05545> [forgive the sin.]
gave <05414> [which thou gavest.]
1 Kings 11:17
small boy <05288 06996> [a little child.]
{N„ƒr katon,} rather, "a little boy:" one who was apprehensive of his danger, and could, with his father's servants, make his escape.
1 Kings 13:30
mourned ..... Ah <05594 01945> [mourned over.]
1 Kings 15:8
Abijah <038> [A.M. 3049. B.C. 955. Abijam.]
Asa <0609> [Asa.]
1 Kings 16:6
Baasha <01201> [A.M. 3074. B.C. 930. Baasha.]
Tirzah <08656> [Tirzah.]
Elah <0425> [Elah.]
1 Kings 16:28
Omri passed away <06018 07901> [So Omri slept.]
1 Kings 17:3
Hide ...... Valley <05641 05158> [hide thyself.]
1 Kings 17:5
did as .... told <06213 01697> [did according.]
Many learned men have raised doubts on those parts of the Inspired Word, which may, by the perverseness of their argument and the ingenuity of their surmise, be made to appear inconsistent with fact. In this case, they are not satisfied with being expressly told by God that the ravens supplied Elijah with food, while the brook gave him drink, but apparently to mystify a manifest miracle, they suggest whether these ravens might not be merchantmen, or the inhabitants of a neighbouring town. Let any unprejudiced reader and lover of the Bible take the whole history of Elijah, and he will find that his life was almost a daily illustration of the power of God in his miraculous interpositions. Instance the supply of provision in the unwasting barrel of meal and cruse of oil, after the prophet had removed to Zarephath: the power communicated to him to raise the widow's son from death: the wonderful interposition of the Lord to prove the folly of Baal's worshippers, in sending down fire from heaven to consume Elijah's sacrifice and lick up the water, although the sacrifice had been saturated therewith, and the altar surrounded by a deep trench to prevent its running away. The prayer for rain is another instance: the sojourn in Horeb forty days and forty nights, after having eaten of the cake: the destruction of Ahaziah's messengers twice: the smiting of the waters at Jordan: the fall of the mantle on Elisha: and finally, in the closing scene of life, he was taken to glory without tasting the pains of death, the sting was taken away.
