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1 Rois 19:9

Et là, il entra dans la caverne, et il y passa la nuit. Et voici, la parole de l'Éternel lui fut adressée, en ces mots: Que fais-tu ici, Élie?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cave;   Elijah;   Minister, Christian;   Prophets;   Trouble;   Thompson Chain Reference - Caves;   God's;   Silence-Speech;   Voice;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Caves;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jezebel;   Sinai;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John the baptist;   Sinai;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Prophet, Prophetess, Prophecy;   Remnant;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cave;   Elijah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Caves;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Elijah;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Shadow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahab;   Elijah;   Prayer;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Ulai;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elijah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Cave;   Eli'jah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Elijah;   God;   House;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 28;  

Parallel Translations

Darby's French Translation
Et lŕ, il entra dans la caverne, et y passa la nuit. Et voici, la parole de l'Éternel vint ŕ lui et lui dit: Que fais-tu ici, Élie?
Louis Segond (1910)
Et lŕ, il entra dans la caverne, et il y passa la nuit. Et voici, la parole de l'Eternel lui fut adressée, en ces mots: Que fais-tu ici, Elie?
La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et lŕ il entra dans une caverne, et y passa la nuit. Ensuite voilŕ, la parole de l'Eternel lui [fut adressée], et [l'Eternel] lui dit : Quelle affaire as-tu ici, Elie?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

unto a cave: Exodus 33:21, Exodus 33:22, Jeremiah 9:2, Hebrews 11:38

What doest thou: 1 Kings 19:13, Genesis 3:9, Genesis 16:8, Jeremiah 2:18, Jonah 1:3, Jonah 1:4

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 17:5 - did according 1 Kings 19:14 - I have been Proverbs 27:8 - man Jeremiah 37:12 - went Jonah 4:5 - Jonah Matthew 26:69 - Peter Mark 14:54 - and he John 18:18 - Peter

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there,.... This cave, some travellers say u, is to be seen at this day, not far from a church dedicated to the prophet Elijah, and that the cave itself has the appearance of a chapel; but a more particular account of it is given in a journal w lately published, which says, this cave exists to this very day, and is situated at the foot of Mount Sinai, and is now enclosed in a church built of red and white granite marble, the entrance into which is from the west; the dimensions of this cave are in length five feet, in depth four feet, and in height four and a half. The Jewish writers are of opinion that this was the cleft of the rock in which Moses was put, when the Lord passed before him; but, if so, there would have been no need of Elijah to have gone forth to and stand upon the mount when the Lord passed by, 1 Kings 19:11,

and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him; an articulate voice was heard by him:

and he said unto him, what dost thou here, Elijah? this is not a proper place for a prophet to be in, in a wilderness, in a mountain, in a cave in it: what work could he do for God? or what service to his people? in the land of Israel he might bear his testimony against idolatry, and so be a means of reclaiming backsliders, and of establishing those that were in the true religion; but of what usefulness could he be here? Abarbinel takes it to be a reproof of Elijah, for going into a place so holy as it was, and in which Moses, the chief of the prophets, had been, and that it did not become such a man as he was to be in such a place.

u Egmont and Heyman's Travels, vol. 2. p. 166. w Journal from Cairo to Mount Sinai in 1722, p. 26. Ed. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A cave - Rather, “the cave.” Some well-known cave must be intended - perhaps the “cliff of the rock” Exodus 33:22. The traditional “cave of Elijah” which is shown in the secluded plain immediately below the highest summit of the Jebel Mousa, cannot, from its small size, be the real cavern.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 19:9. He came thither unto a cave — Conjectured by some to be the same cave in which God put Moses that he might give him a glimpse of his glory. See Exodus 33:22.

What doest thou here, Elijah? — Is this a reproach for having fled from the face of Jezebel, through what some call unbelieving fears, that God would abandon him to her rage?


 
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