1 Kings 19:13 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 19:13

When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

BSB

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ASV

And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?

KJV

And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Mantle - The upper garment, a sort of short cloak or cape - perhaps made of untanned sheepskin, which was, besides the strip of leather round his loins, the sole apparel of the prophet (compare Mat 3:4). For the action compare the marginal references. There came a voice unto him ... - The question heard before in vision is now put again to the prophet by the Lord Himself. Elijah gives no humbler and more gentle answer. He is still satisfied with his own statement of his case.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

"What doest thou here, in this cave? Is this a place for a prophet of the Lord to lodge in? Is this a time for such men to retreat, when the public has such need of them?" In the retirement to which God sent Elijah ( ch. xvii. ) he was a blessing to a poor widow at Sarepta, but here he had no opportunity of doing good.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1668: “The Still Small Voice” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1882)

ELIJAH, no doubt, expected that after the wonderful display of God's power on Carmel the nation would give up its idols and would turn unto the only living and true God. Had they not confessed as with a voice of thunder, "Jehovah, He is the God! Jehovah, He is the God!"? The Prophet trusted that the heart of Ahab might, perhaps, be touched and possibly, through him, the heart of Jezebel. If she did not become converted, at least the manifest interposition of Jehovah might check her hand from future persecution.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִ֣י׀	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
כִּשְׁמֹ֣עַ	kish.Mo.a'	when heard	H8085 →
אֵלִיָּ֗הוּ	'e.li.Ya.hu	Elijah	H452 →
וַיָּ֤לֶט	vai.Ya.let	and he wrapped	H3874 →
פָּנָיו֙	pa.Nav	face his	H6440 →
בְּאַדַּרְתּ֔וֹ	be.'a.dar.To	in cloak his	H155 →
וַיֵּצֵ֕א	vai.ye.Tze'	and he went out	H3318 →
וַֽיַּעֲמֹ֖ד	vai.ya.'a.Mod	and he stood	H5975 →
פֶּ֣תַח	Pe.tach	[the] entrance of	H6607 →
הַמְּעָרָ֑ה	ha.me.'a.Rah	the cave	H4631 →
וְהִנֵּ֤ה	ve.hi.Neh	and there!	H2009 →
אֵלָיו֙	'e.Lav	[was] to him	H413 →
ק֔וֹל	Kol	a voice	H6963 →
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and it said	H559 →
מַה־	mah-	what?	H4100 →
לְּךָ֥	le.Kha	[is] to you
פֹ֖ה	foh	here	H6311 →
אֵלִיָּֽהוּ׃	'e.li.Ya.hu	O Elijah	H452 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 6:5
Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD…
leads to
- Luke 5:8–9
  When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”
- James 3:6–10
  The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on…
- Jeremiah 9:3–8
  “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 1:6
  “Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”
- Matthew 12:34–37
  You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
Through
Exodus 33:23
Then I will take My hand away, and you will see My back; but My face must not be seen.”
leads to
- Exodus 33:20
  But He added, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.”
- John 1:18
  No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
Through
1 Kings 19:9
There Elijah entered a cave and spent the night. And the word of the LORD came to him, saying, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
leads to
- Genesis 3:9
  But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”