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.
ExplanationCommentary
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.