Our leaders are both an example to us, and a reflection of us.
- The Character of Ahab (16.29-33)
- Ahab = Father’s brother. Jezebel = Baal exalts or Baal is husband to. Ethbaal = With Baal or companion of Baal.
- ‘Jeroboam’s state cult is like drinking polluted water; Ahab’s imported paganism is like sucking raw sewage. Neither is good, but one is worse than the other.’ – Dale Ralph Davis
- The Character of Israel (16.34)
- Hiel = Brother of God or God lives. Bethel = House of God.
- ‘Israel no longer conquers the Canaanites but instead embraces their religion and courts their fate.’ – Iain Provan
- The Character of Elijah (17.1-7)
- Elijah = The LORD is God.
- ‘God wonderfully suits men to the work he designs them for. The times were fit for an Elijah; an Elijah was fit for them. The Spirit of the Lord knows how to fit men for the occasions.’ – Matthew Henry
- The Character of God (17.1-7)
- ‘Physical suffering is a smaller calamity than moral delinquency. And the love of God does not shrink from inflicting such suffering, if, as a result, the plague of sin may be cut out as a cancer and stayed.’ – F. B. Meyer