Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 18:8
And he answered him, I [am]: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is here].
8. I am] R.V. It is I. To correspond with the change in the preceding verse.
tell thy lord ] It would be news of great interest to the king of Israel, as is clearly shewn by the efforts which he had already made to find Elijah.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Tell thy lord, Ahab; whom, though a very wicked man, he owns for Obadiahs lord and king; thereby instructing him that he did well in owning him as such, and that the wickedness of kings doth not exempt their subjects from obedience to their lawful commands.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And he answered him, I am,…. He did not desire to be concealed, his orders were to show and make himself known to Ahab, and Obadiah was one of his domestic servants:
go tell thy lord, behold, Elijah is here; in such a place, ready to face him at any time. Elijah, by calling Ahab the lord of Obadiah, as he tacitly reproves him for calling him lord, shows reverence to Ahab as a king, and yet that he was fearless of him, as he was the prophet and ambassador of the Lord of hosts to him.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
1Ki 18:8 And he answered him, I [am]: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is here].
Ver. 8. Behold, Elijah is here. ] Not ashamed to show my face; but of his mind who said, Malo miserandum quam erubescendum. Memorable was that speech of John Frith to the archbishop’s men that would have let him go and shift for himself; If you should both leave me here, and go to Croyden, declaring to the bishops that you had lost Frith, I would surely follow as fast after as I might, and bring them news that I had found and brought Frith again. Do you think that I am afraid to declare mine opinion to the bishops of England in a manifest truth? a
a Act. and Mon., 1927.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
thy lord: 1Ki 18:3, Rom 13:7, 1Pe 2:17, 1Pe 2:18
Reciprocal: 1Ki 18:11 – Go