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- 1 Kings
- Chapter 19
- Verse 12
And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
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Gill's Exposition
And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire,.... As he was when he descended on this mount, and spake to Moses, Exo 19:1, the Targum, and so Jarchi, interpret all these…
Barnes' Notes
A still small voice - literally, “a sound of soft stillness.” The teaching is a condemnation of that “zeal” which Elijah had gloried in, a zeal exhibiting itself in fierce and terrible vengeances, and…
Here is, I. Elijah housed in a cave at Mount Horeb, which is called the mount of God, because on it God had formerly manifested his glory. And perhaps this was the same cave, or cleft of a rock, in…
Cambridge Bible
a still small voice Literally, as in the margin of R.V. -a sound of gentle stillness." There is nothing to indicate to us whether the sound was articulate or not, nor is it said that the Lord was now…
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