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Now when the Israelites saw this, they fell down upon the ground,
and worshipped one God, and called him The great and the only true God;
but they called the others mere names, framed by the evil and vile
opinions of men. So they caught their prophets, and, at the command of
Elijah, slew them. Elijah also said to the king, that he should go to dinner
without any further concern, for that in a little time he would see God
send them rain. Accordingly Ahab went his way. But Elijah went up to the
highest top of Mount Carmel, and sat down upon the ground, and leaned his
head upon his knees, and bade his servant go up to a certain elevated place,
and look towards the sea, and when he should see a cloud rising any where,
he should give him notice of it, for till that time the air had been clear.
When the Servant had gone up, and had said many times that he saw nothing,
at the seventh time of his going up, he said that he saw a small black
thing in the sky, not larger than a man's foot. When Elijah heard that,
he sent to Ahab, and desired him to go away to the city before the rain
came down. So he came to the city Jezreel; and in a little time the air
was all obscured, and covered with clouds, and a vehement storm of wind
came upon the earth, and with it a great deal of rain; and the prophet
was under a Divine fury, and ran along with the king's chariot unto Jezreel
a city of Izar 1
[Issaachar].
1 For Izar we may here read (with Hudson and Cocceius) Isachar, i.e of the tribe of Isachar, for to that tribe did Jezreel belong; and presently at the beginning of sect. 8, as also ch. 15. sect. 4, we may read for Iar, with one MS. nearly, and the Scripture, Jezreel, for that was the city meant in the history of Naboth.
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