I, even I only, am left - This is the same statement as in 1 Kings 18:22, but the meaning is different. There, Elijah m…

And he said. —The reply to the implied reproof is one of impatient self-exculpation and even remonstrance. He himself (it says) ha…

And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altar…

And he said, I have been jealous for the Lord God of hosts ,
&c.] Through zeal for the glory of God he had slain fou…

The question God put, What doest thou here, Elijah? is a reproof. It concerns us often to ask whether we are in our place and in the way o…