1 Raja-raja 18:44

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Pada ketujuh kalinya berkatalah bujang itu: "Wah, awan kecil sebesar telapak tangan timbul dari laut." Lalu kata Elia: "Pergilah, katakan kepada Ahab: Pasang keretamu dan turunlah, jangan sampai engkau terhalang oleh hujan."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Pada ketujuh kalinya berkatalah bujang itu: "Wah, awan kecil sebesar telapak tangan timbul dari laut." Lalu kata Elia: "Pergilah, katakan kepada Ahab: Pasang keretamu dan turunlah, jangan sampai engkau terhalang oleh hujan."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka pada ketujuh kalinya itu sesungguhnya kata hamba itu: Bahwasanya adalah sebuah awan kecil sebesar tapak tangan orang itu naik dari sebelah laut. Maka kata Elia: Pergilah engkau, katakanlah kepada Akhab: Suruhlah lengkapkan kendaraanmu, lalu berjalanlah, asal jangan engkau ditegahkan oleh hujan.

Contextual Overview

⁴¹ And Elias sayde vnto Ahab: Get thee vp, eate and drinke: for there is a sounde of much rayne. ⁴² And so Ahab went vp to eate and to drinke, and Elias went vp to the top of Carmel, and he layde him selfe flat vpo the earth, and put his face betweene his knees, ⁴³ And sayde to his seruaunt: Go vp [I pray thee] and loke towarde the way of the sea. And he went vp, and loked, and sayde: There is nothing. And againe he sayde: Go againe seuen times. ⁴⁴ And it fortuned that at the seuenth time, he sayde: Beholde there aryseth a litle cloude of the sea lyke a mans hand. He sayde: Go, and say vnto Ahab, Make fast [thy charet] and get thee downe, that the rayne stoppe thee not. ⁴⁵ And it came to passe, that in the meane whyle the heauen was blacke with cloudes and winde, & there was a great rayne: And Ahab gat vp, and came to Iezrahel. ⁴⁶ And the hande of the Lorde was on Elias, and he girded vp his loynes, and ranne before Ahab, till he came to Iezrahel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a little cloud: Kekaph ish, "like the hollow of a man's hand;" in the form of a hand bent, the concave side downmost. Mr. Bruce mentions a similar cloud in Abyssinia, as attending the inundation of the Nile. "Every morning, about nine, a small cloud, not above four feet broad, appears in the east, whirling violently round, as if upon an axis; but arrived near the zenith, it first abates its motion, then loses its form, and extends itself greatly, and seems to call up vapours from all opposite quarters. These clouds having attained nearly the same height, rush against each other with great violence, and put me always in mind of Elijah foretelling rain on Mount Carmel." Job 8:7, Zechariah 4:10

Prepare: Heb. Tie, or Bind, 1 Samuel 6:7, 1 Samuel 6:10, Micah 1:13

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 20:14 - order Job 36:29 - the spreadings Psalms 147:8 - covereth Amos 5:8 - that calleth Luke 12:54 - When

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass at the seventh time that he said, behold there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand,.... Either about the size or in the form of it; rain water comes out of the sea, and, being strained through the clouds and air, becomes fresh:

and he said, go up: the meaning seems to be, that he should first go down from the mount, and then go up to that part of it where Ahab was:

say unto Ahab, prepare thy chariot; bind or fasten the horses to it, as the phrase seems to signify:

and get thee down; from the mountain where he was, to go to Jezreel, which lay low in a valley:

that the rain stop thee not; on the road, that might be made impassable by it, signifying that such abundance should fall as would make it so.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A little cloud ... - Sailors know full well that such a cloud on the far horizon is often the forerunner of a violent storm.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 18:44. There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. — איש ככף kechaph ish, like the hollow of a man's hand. In the form of the hand bent, the concave side downmost. I have witnessed a resemblance of this kind at sea previously to a violent storm, a little cloud the size of a man's hand first appearing, and this increasing in size and density every moment, till at last it covered the whole heavens, and then burst forth with incredible fury.

Mr. Bruce mentions a similar appearance in Abyssinia: - "Every morning, in Abyssinia, is clear, and the sun shines. About nine a small cloud, not above four hundred feet broad, appears in the east, whirling violently round, as if upon an axis; but arrived near the zenith, it first abates its motion, then loses its form, and extends itself greatly, and seems to call up vapours from all opposite quarters. These clouds, having attained nearly the same height, rush against each other with great violence, and put me always in mind of Elijah foretelling rain on Mount Carmel." - Travels, vol. v., page 336, edit. 1806.