3<\/strong>. Elijah the Tishbite<\/em> ] See on 1Ki 17:1<\/span>. For a similar message to the prophet cf. 1Ki 21:17<\/span>. We know from 2Ki 4:25<\/span> that Elisha was often to be found on Mt Carmel where there was most likely a school of the prophets (see 2Ki 2:25<\/span>). It may be that Elijah also made his most settled dwelling there. At this time he went and took up a position on some height (see below, verse 9) which commanded the road by which the messengers were journeying from Samaria to Ekron.<\/p>\n the king of Samaria<\/em> ] When the city of Samaria had been built and made the royal residence, the name ‘Samaria’ soon came to be used as the equivalent of ‘Israel’ for the kingdom of the ten tribes. See before 1Ki 21:1<\/span>.<\/p>\n Is it not because<\/em> there is not a God in Israel<\/em> ] R.V. Is it because there is no God in Israel<\/strong>. The Hebrew could employ a double negative, as the Greek sometimes does, but the sense intended is given in English by the single one. This rendering the A.V. employs in Exo 14:11<\/span> where the original is in the same form as in the verse before us: ‘Because there were no graves in Egypt’; and for a similar double negative in the Hebrew of Ecc 3:11<\/span> the A.V. gives ‘so that no man can find out’. The same form of phrase is repeated below in verses 6 and 16.<\/p>\n The LXX. takes away the first word of the Hebrew in the next sentence, = Now therefore<\/em>, from its connexion and renders it as a separate phrase, and as if it had been = , putting , which has nothing to represent it in the Hebrew, as the connecting particle of the next clause. The same misreading occurs in verses 6 and 16.<\/p>\n Is it not because there is not a God in Israel?<\/B> Dost thou not by this action cast contempt upon the God of Israel, as if he were either ignorant of the event of thy disease, or un able to give thee any relief, and as if Baal-zebub had more skill and power than he? <\/P> <\/p>\n 3. the angel of the Lord<\/B>notan<\/I> angel, but the<\/I> angel, who carried on allcommunications between the invisible God and His chosen people[HENGSTENBERG]. This angelcommissioned Elijah to meet the king’s messengers, to stop themperemptorily on the idolatrous errand, and convey by them to the kinginformation of his approaching death. This consultation of an idol,being a breach of the fundamental law of the kingdom (Exo 20:3<\/span>;Deu 5:7<\/span>), was a daring anddeliberate rejection of the national religion. The Lord, in makingthis announcement of his death, designed that he should see in thatevent a judgment for his idolatry.<\/P><\/p>\n But the angel of the Lord said unto Elijah<\/strong>,…. One of the ministering spirits sent by the Lord to him:<\/p>\n arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria<\/strong>: that is, the king of Israel, whose capital city was Samaria:<\/p>\n is it not because there is not a God in Israel<\/strong>; known, acknowledged, and worshipped there, of whom there had been sufficient proof of his deity and divine perfections, as omniscience, omnipotence, &c.<\/p>\n that ye go to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron<\/strong>? about future things, when they had God nigh unto them, fully acquainted with them, as this message shows.<\/p>\n (3) But the angel . . . said.<\/strong>Rather, Now the angel . . . had said.<\/em> The angel<\/em> is right. (Comp. 2Ki. 19:35<\/span>.) Reuss strangely renders: Mais une rvlation de lEternel parla; and adds the note, Et non pas un ange (!).<\/p>\n Arise, go up.<\/strong>Samaria lay on a hill, and the prophet was to meet the messengers at the gates.<\/p>\n King of Samaria.<\/strong>Not Israel, a mark of Judan feeling.<\/p>\n And say.<\/strong>Literally, speak<\/em>. LXX., Vulgate, and Arabic add saying, but comp. 1Ki. 21:5-6<\/span>.<\/p>\n Is it not because.<\/strong>Omit not. So 2Ki. 1:6<\/span>.<\/p>\n Ye go.<\/strong>Are going.<\/p>\n A God in Israel.<\/strong>Comp. Mic. 4:5<\/span> : For all peoples will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and ever.<\/p>\n 3<\/strong>. <\/strong> Not a god in Israel <\/strong> This inquiry of a strange god was at once a violation of the first commandment of the decalogue (Exo 20:3<\/span>) and an utter rejection of Jehovah, and deserved the judgment of death.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n 2Ki 1:3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in Israel, [that] ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Ver. 3. Is it not because there is not a God in Israel,<\/strong> ] God scorneth that it should be thought that he had “said unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain”: that is enough for dumb idols. Isa 45:16-19 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n That ye go to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?<\/strong> ] To their own Baal they sent not, belike, either because he had lately deceived his father Ahab to the loss of his life, or because men are apt to admire foreign things.<\/p>\n Angel of the LORD. See note on Exo 3:2. He who directed Moses directs Elijah. <\/p>\n the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. <\/p>\n Elijah = my GOD is JAH. See App-4. <\/p>\n God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4. <\/p>\n 2Ki 1:3-4<\/p>\n 2Ki 1:3-4<\/p>\n ELIJAH INTERCEPTED HIS MESSENGERS AND PROPHESIED THE DEATH OF AHAZIAH<\/p>\n “But the angel of Jehovah said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, Go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Now therefore thus saith Jehovah, Thou shalt not come down from the bed whither thou art gone up, but shall surely die. And Elijah departed.”<\/p>\n “The angel of Jehovah” (2Ki 1:3). The importance of this event is stressed by the appearance of this Mighty Angel to Elijah. Some identify him with the great Christophanies of the O.T., and Dentan was probably correct in his statement that, “The Angel of the Lord who appears in 2Ki 1:3; 2Ki 1:15 is actually the Lord himself.” “Gen 22:15-16 speaks of the angel of the Lord and the Lord as being the same.”<\/p>\n “Now therefore” (2Ki 1:4). “The word therefore means `for this reason,’ the reason being Ahaziah’s total apostasy from God, for which sin God sentenced him to die as a result of his fall … it is implied that he might have recovered if he had acted otherwise.”<\/p>\n E.M. Zerr:<\/p>\n 2Ki 1:1. David had brought the Moabites under tribute to the children of Israel. (2Sa 8:2.) They continued in that relation until after the death of Ahab, at which time they rebelled and made war. This verse barely introduces the subject of the situation, then the writer drops it to insert certain other happenings among noted individuals. It will be taken up again at 2Ki 3:4-5. <\/p>\n 2Ki 1:2. The injury that Ahaziah received by his fall was very severe. It was not immediately fatal, however, and the outcome was uncertain. In other words, the condition was apparently such that superhuman information was thought necessary to determine it. Baal was the general name of an idolatrous deity, and zebub was a special one located at Ekron, a Philistine city. To this place the wounded man ordered his messengers to go for the information on his case. <\/p>\n 2Ki 1:3. Had there been no man of God available, it would still have been an insult to God for one of his professed servants to recognize an idol god. The prophet Elijah was told by the angel to intercept the messengers of Ahaziah. Is it not because, etc., is in the form of a question. The meaning of it is an accusation of ignoring the true God of Israel, which was a deep offense to Him. <\/p>\n 2Ki 1:4. We do not know whether Ahaziah’s injury was necessarily fatal; it might have been. But in whatever case the victim was involved, the outcome was as yet hidden from his knowledge. The information was thus given him by the prophet that he would die. <\/p>\n angel <\/p>\n (See Scofield “Heb 1:4”). <\/p>\n angel: 2Ki 1:15, 1Ki 19:5, 1Ki 19:7, Act 8:26, Act 12:7-11 <\/p>\n Elijah: 2Ki 1:8, 1Ki 17:1 <\/p>\n Arise: 1Ki 18:1 <\/p>\n it: 2Ki 1:6, 2Ki 1:16, 2Ki 5:8, 2Ki 5:15, 1Sa 17:46, 1Ki 18:36, Psa 76:1 <\/p>\n ye go: Jer 2:11-13, Jon 2:8, Mar 3:22 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Jos 15:11 – Ekron Jdg 10:6 – the gods of the Philistines 1Sa 28:7 – Seek me 2Sa 12:1 – the Lord 1Ki 22:5 – Inquire 2Ki 1:2 – Baalzebub Isa 8:19 – should not Jer 21:2 – Inquire Hos 10:7 – Samaria<\/p>\n 2Ki 1:3. Is it not because, &c. There are two negatives in the Hebrew text, which increase the sense, Is it not because there is no God, none in Israel? That is, Do you not plainly declare that you think there is no God, none at all in Israel? That he knows nothing, and can do nothing? which makes you send to Ekron, as if there were a more knowing and mighty, if not the only God there. God had expressly said, that he had given prophets to the Israelites to inform them of future events, that they might not be tempted to go to inquire of strange gods, Deu 18:14-15. <\/p>\n 1:3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, {c} [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in Israel, [that] ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?<\/p>\n (c) He shows that idolaters do not have the true God, or else they would seek none but him alone.<\/p>\n But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in Israel, [that] ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? 3. 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