Have you also brought evil? —Elijah’s complaint is characteristic of the half-presumptuous impatience seen more fully in …

The words of the woman had touched his heart, and perhaps he also spoke unadvisedly; but who are we that we should judge? He seemed to feel that, w…

And he cried unto the Lord
Or prayed unto him, as the Targum, with great vehemence and importunity:

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Neither faith nor obedience shuts out afflictions and death. The child being dead, the mother spoke to the prophet, rather to give vent to her sorr…