...Jezreel. It will be remembered that, on the approach of the storm, after Elijah had prayed for rain, " he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel (1 Kings xviii. 41 — 46), a task he could not have accomplished from the western extremity of the...

...before the driving storm, and while the prophet himself, elate with the joy of a nation's deliverance, girded up his loins and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel — a harbinger of good news to the famished land, that would outstrip the very winds which had come...

...than aloud. The perusing of a book in silence is there unknown. Ginliny up the loine. "And he [Elijah] girded up his loins and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jesreel." The girdle still used in oriental countries for this purpose is often as much as fifteen...

...of the feat performed by the prophet at the winding up of this wonderful drama : " The hand of the Lord was upon Elijah, and he girded up his loins,...me most extraordinary conduct for a man of his age, cliaracter, and office. And yet, when rightly understood, it was beautiful, and full of important Elijah...

...wind, and there was a great rain, " and Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; " and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel." J Fancy the prophet bounding before the chariot of Ahab ! A more pitiful sight cannot be conceived,...

...wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and 4e went to Jezreel. And the hand of Jehovah was on Elijah ; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. 1 CHAP. XIX.— And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had slain all the prophets...

...which had been miraculously supplied to him. In 1 Kings xviii. 46, it is stated that the hand of the Lord was upon Elijah, and he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel, ie, extraordinarily strengthened, he ran before Ahab from Carmel to the entrance of Jezreel, a distance...

...which had been miraculously supplied to him. In 1 Kings xviii. 46, it is stated that the hand of the Lord was upon Elijah, and he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel, ie, extraordinarily strengthened, he ran before Ahab from Carmel to the entrance of Jezreel, a distance...

...wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah ; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel" (ver. 41-46). "This," says Dr. Thomson, " has always appeared to me most extraordinary conduct for...

...and such other things as are to happen." — DIOD. Sic. 1. nc 40. 46. And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah ; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. " No well-girt runner goes before us." — MART. 1. xn. epig. 24. " Sergius Sulpicius Galba (afterwards...