Parallel Verses English Standard Version “Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. King James Bible Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. American Standard Version Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. Douay-Rheims Bible Get thee hence, and go towards the east and hide thyself by the torrent of Carith, which is over against the Jordan, English Revised Version Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. Webster's Bible Translation Depart hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. 1 Kings 17:3 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentWhereas the former kings of Israel had only perpetuated the sin of Jeroboam, i.e., the calf-worship. or worship of Jehovah under the image of an ox, which he had introduced, Ahab was not satisfied with this. לכתּו הנקל ויהי, "it came to pass, was it too little?" i.e., because it was too little (cf. Ewald, 362, a.) to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, that he took as his wife Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal the king of the Sidonians, and served Baal, and worshipped him. ויּלך before ויּעבד, "he went and served," is a pictorial description of what took place, to give greater prominence to the new turn of affairs. אתבּעל .sri (i.e., with Baal) is the Εἰθώβαλος (בּעל אתּו or Ἰθόβαλος: Jos. Ant. viii. 13, 1) mentioned by Menander in Josephus, c. Ap. i. 18, who was king of Tyre and Sidon, and priest of Astarte, and who usurped the throne after the murder of his brother, king Pheles, and reigned thirty-two years. Jezebel (איזבל, i.e., probably without cohabitation, cf. Genesis 30:20, equals untouched, chaste; not a contraction of אביזבל, as Ewald, 273, b., supposes) was therefore, as tyrant and murderess of the prophets, a worthy daughter of her father, the idolatrous priest and regicide. Baal (always הבּעל with the article, the Baal, i.e., Lord κατ ̓ ἐξοχήν) was the principal male deity of the Phoenicians and Canaanites, and generally of the western Asiatics, called by the Babylonians בּל equals בּעל (Isaiah 46:1), Βῆλος, and as the sun-god was worshipped as the supporter and first principle of psychical life and of the generative and reproductive power of nature (see at Judges 2:13). Ahab erected an altar to this deity הבּעל בּית, in the house (temple) of Baal, which he had built at Samaria. The worship of Baal had its principal seat in Tyre, where Hiram, the contemporary of David and Solomon, had built for it a splendid temple and placed a golden pillar (χρυσοῦν κίονα) therein, according to Dius and Menander, in Joseph. Ant. viii. 5, 3, and c. Ap. i. 18. Ahab also erected a similar pillar (מצּבה) to Baal in his temple at Samaria (vid., 2 Kings 3:2; 2 Kings 10:27). For statues of images of Baal are not met with in the earlier times; and the בּעלים are not statues of Baal, but different modifications of that deity. It was only in the later temple of Baal or Hercules at Tyre that there was, as Cicero observes (Verr. iv. 43), ex aere simulacrum ipsius Herculis, quo non facile quidquam dixerim me vidisse pulcrius. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge hide thyself Psalm 31:20 You shall hide them in the secret of your presence from the pride of man... Revelation 12:6,14 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared of God... Cross References 1 Kings 17:2 And the word of the LORD came to him: 1 Kings 17:4 You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there." Jeremiah 36:19 Then the officials said to Baruch, "Go and hide, you and Jeremiah, and let no one know where you are." Jump to Previous Brook Cherith Depart Direction East Eastward Front Hence Hidden Hide Jordan Kerith Leave Ravine Secret Stream Thyself Turn TurnedJump to Next Brook Cherith Depart Direction East Eastward Front Hence Hidden Hide Jordan Kerith Leave Ravine Secret Stream Thyself Turn TurnedLinks 1 Kings 17:3 NIV1 Kings 17:3 NLT 1 Kings 17:3 ESV 1 Kings 17:3 NASB 1 Kings 17:3 KJV 1 Kings 17:3 Bible Apps 1 Kings 17:3 Biblia Paralela 1 Kings 17:3 Chinese Bible 1 Kings 17:3 French Bible 1 Kings 17:3 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |