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God's Mysterious Transport
Obadiah expresses a real belief that the "Spirit of the Lord" could physically carry Elijah away. Commentators explain this was understood as a literal, supernatural event, not just a metaphor. This belief in God's power to miraculously move His prophets, seen elsewhere in Scripture (e.g., Acts 8:39), was the source of Obadiah's fear that he would be unable to produce Elijah for King Ahab.
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Charles Ellicott
On 1 Kings 18:12
19th Century
Bishop
The Spirit of the Lord shall carry thee. —In this phrase there is perhaps a survival of the original physical sense of the word “Spirit”—t…
John Gill
On 1 Kings 18:12
17th Century
Pastor
And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from you,
that the Spirit of the Lord shall carry you wh…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Kings 18:1–16
17th Century
Minister
The severest judgments, by themselves, will not humble or change the hearts of sinners; nothing, except the blood of Jesus Christ, can atone for th…