Geneva Bible Notes: 1 Kings 19

1 Kings 19:1 (a) To wit, Baal.

1 Kings 19:2 (b) Thogh the wicked rage against Gods children, yet he holdeth them backe that they can not execute their malice.

1 Kings 19:3 (/) Or, whether his minde led him.

1 Kings 19:4 (c) So hard a thing it is to bridel our impacience in affliction that the saints colde not ouercome the same.

1 Kings 19:5 (!) Eliiah fleing from Jezebel is nourished by the Angel of God.

1 Kings 19:7 (d) He declareth that except God had nourished him miraculously, it had not bene possible for him to haue gone this journey.

1 Kings 19:10 (e) He complaineth, that the more zealous that he shewed him self to mainteine Gods glorie, the more cruelly was he persecuted.

1 Kings 19:11 (f) For the nature of man is not able to come nere vnto God, if he shoulde appeare in his strength & ful majestie, & therefore of his mercie he submitteth him self to our capacitie.

1 Kings 19:14 (g) We oght not to depend on the multitude in mainteining Gods glorie, but because our duetie so requireth, we oght to do it.

1 Kings 19:15 (/) Or, Syria.

1 Kings 19:15 (!) He is commanded to anoint Hazael, Jehu, and Elisha.

1 Kings 19:18 (h) He declareth that wicked dissemblers and idolaters are not his.

1 Kings 19:20 (i) Thogh this natural affection is not to be contemned, yet it oght not to moue vs when God calleth vs to serue him.

1 Kings 19:21 (k) He wolde not stay til wood was broght, so freat was his desire to followe his vocation.