Elijah
30 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
23 sections
- A Post-Exile Jew
- Also Called Eliah: A Benjamite Chief
- Antitype of John the Baptist
- Appears to Jesus at his Transfiguration
- Consolation Given To
- Despondency and Complaints of
- Fasts for Forty Days
- Flees to the Wilderness of Damascus
- Kills the Prophets of Baal
- Miracles of Calls Fire Down Upon the Soldiers of Ahaziah
- Miracles of Causes Fire to Consume the Sacrifice
- Miracles of Causes Rain After Seven Years of Drought
- Miracles of Increases the Oil of the Widow of Zarephath
- Miracles of Raises the Son of the Woman of Zarephath from the Dead
- Persecuted by Ahab
- Personal Aspect of
- Prophecies of Foretells a Drought
- Prophecies of The Death of Ahaziah
- Prophecies of The Destruction of Ahab and his House
- Prophecies of The Plague Sent As a Judgment Upon the People in the Time of Jehoram, King of Israel
- Returns, and Sends a Message to Ahab
- The Tishbite
- The Tishbite, a Gileadite and Prophet, Called Elias in the King James Version of the Nt: Piety of
A Post-Exile Jew
- Ezra 10:21 From the descendants of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah.
Also Called Eliah: A Benjamite Chief
- 1 Chronicles 8:27 Jaareshiah, Elijah, and Zichri were the sons of Jeroham.
Antitype of John the Baptist
- Matthew 11:14 And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come.
- Matthew 16:14 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
- Matthew 17:10–12 The disciples asked Him, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?” …
- Mark 9:12–13 He replied, “Elijah does indeed come first, and he restores all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected? …
- Luke 1:17 And he will go on before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous — to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
- John 1:21–25 “Then who are you?” they inquired. “Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.” …
Appears to Jesus at his Transfiguration
- Matthew 17:3–4 Suddenly Moses and Elijah appeared before them, talking with Jesus. …
- Mark 9:4 And Elijah and Moses appeared before them, talking with Jesus.
- Luke 9:30 Suddenly two men, Moses and Elijah, began talking with Jesus.
Consolation Given To
- 1 Kings 9:11–18 King Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, who had supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every desire. …
Despondency and Complaints of
- 1 Kings 19:10 “I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking …
- 1 Kings 19:14 “I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking …
Fasts for Forty Days
- 1 Kings 19:8 So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
Flees to the Wilderness of Damascus
- 1 Kings 19:9–21 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?” …
Kills the Prophets of Baal
- 1 Kings 18:40 Then Elijah ordered them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let a single one escape.” So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered them there.
Miracles of Calls Fire Down Upon the Soldiers of Ahaziah
- 2 Kings 1:10–12 Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.” And fire came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty men. …
- Luke 9:54 When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”
Miracles of Causes Fire to Consume the Sacrifice
- 1 Kings 18:24 Then you may call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD. The God who answers by fire, He is God.” And all the people answered, “What you say is good.”
- 1 Kings 18:36–38 At the time of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet approached the altar and said, “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and that I am Your servant and have done all …
Miracles of Causes Rain After Seven Years of Drought
- 1 Kings 18:41–45 And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.” …
- James 5:17–18 Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. …
Miracles of Increases the Oil of the Widow of Zarephath
- 1 Kings 17:14–16 for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.’” …
Miracles of Raises the Son of the Woman of Zarephath from the Dead
- 1 Kings 17:17–24 Later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill, and his sickness grew worse and worse, until no breath remained in him. …
Persecuted by Ahab
- 1 Kings 17:2–7 Then a revelation from the LORD came to Elijah: …
- 1 Kings 18:7–10 Now as Obadiah went on his way, Elijah suddenly met him. When Obadiah recognized him, he fell facedown and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?” …
Personal Aspect of
- 2 Kings 1:8 “He was a hairy man,” they answered, “with a leather belt around his waist.” “It was Elijah the Tishbite,” said the king.
Prophecies of Foretells a Drought
- 1 Kings 17:3 “Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.
Prophecies of The Death of Ahaziah
- 2 Kings 1:2–17 Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.” …
Prophecies of The Destruction of Ahab and his House
- 1 Kings 21:17–29 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, …
- 2 Kings 9:25–37 And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him into the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember that when you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, the LORD lifted up this burden against him: …
Prophecies of The Plague Sent As a Judgment Upon the People in the Time of Jehoram, King of Israel
- 2 Chronicles 21:12–15 Then a letter came to Jehoram from Elijah the prophet, which stated: “This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘You have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa king of Judah, …
Returns, and Sends a Message to Ahab
- 1 Kings 18:1–16 After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.” …
The Tishbite
- 2 Kings 2:11 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.
The Tishbite, a Gileadite and Prophet, Called Elias in the King James Version of the Nt: Piety of
- 1 Kings 19:10 “I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking …
- 1 Kings 19:14 “I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking …
- Luke 1:17 And he will go on before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous — to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
- Romans 11:2 God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:
- James 5:17 Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.