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NASB | 1 Kings 19:9 ¶ Then he came there to a cave and lodged there; and behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and He said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Kings 19:9 ¶ There he came to a cave and spent the night in it; and behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and He said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" |
Bible Question: Why do you think God asked Elijah what was he doing there? |
Bible Answer: Greetings loveGod'sword! Here is a little commentary on 1 Kings 19:9.. "19:9 What are you doing here, Elijah? The question implies that Elijah had come to Sinai for his own misguided reasons and not because the Lord had sent him." (1) "..What Elijah proposed to himself in coming to lodge here, I cannot conceive, unless it was to indulge his melancholy, or to satisfy his curiosity and assist his faith and devotion with the sight of that famous place where the law was given and where so many great things were done, and hoping to meet with God himself there, where Moses met with him, or in token of his abandoning his people Israel, who hated to be reformed (in the latter case, it agrees with Jeremiah's wish, #Jer. ix. 2, O that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them, for they are all adulterers) and so it was a bad omen of God's forsaking them; or it was because the thought he could not be safe any where else, and to this instance of the hardships this good man was reduced to the apostle refers, #Heb. xi. 38. They wandered in deserts and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth." (2) Blessings to you, Makarios (1) The Zondervan NASB Study Bible, 1999, the Zondervan Corporation, Kenneth Barker, Author and General Editor (2) The Matthew Henry Complete and Unabridged Commentary on the Whole Bible |
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