OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 18:12

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It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that the LORD’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth.

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Verse 12. Spirit. Abdias supposed that the prophet had been transported to some unknown country, ( Calmet.) as he was afterwards to paradise. His disciples imagined, by a violent wind. 4 Kennicott. 2:16. Bible.—Thus the spirit of the Lord took away Philip, (Acts 8:39,) and conducted Jesus into the desert. Matthew 4:1. Mar. 1:12. Calmet.—Infancy. This he mentions, that the prophet might take pity on him. Menochius.

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