* 1 Sam. x. 5, where a band of prophets is mentioned "coming
down from the high place with a psaltery, and a timbrel, and
a pipe, and a harp, before them, prophesying;" cf. ver. 10.
In 2 Kings ii. 3-5, bands of the "children of the prophets"
come out from Bethel and Jericho to ask Elisha if he knows
the fate which awaits Elijah on that very day.

** Cf. the anonymous prophet who encourages Ahab, in the
name of Jahveh, to surprise the camp of Benhadad before
Samaria (1 Kings xx. 13-15, 22-25, 28); and the prophet
Zedekiah, who gives advice contrary to that of his fellow-
prophet Micaiah in the council of war held by Ahab with
Jehoshaphat, King of Judah, before the attack on Ramobh-
gilead (1 Kings xxii. 11, 12, 24).

*** The ethnical inscription, "Tishbite," which we find
after his name (1 Kings xvii. 1, xxi. 17), is due to an
error on the part of the copyist.

He is there ministered unto by ravens, which bring him bread and meat
every night and morning. When the spring from which he drinks dries up,
he goes to the house of a widow at Zarephath in the country of Sidon,
and there he lives with his hostess for twelve months on a barrel of
meal and a cruse of oil which never fail. The widow's son dies suddenly:
he prays to Jahveh and restores him to life; then, still guided by an
inspiration from above, he again presents himself before the king. Ahab
receives him without resentment, assembles the prophets of Baal, brings
them face to face with Elijah on the top of Mount Carmel, and orders
them to put an end to the drought by which his kingdom is wasted. The
Phoenicians erect an altar and call upon their Baalim with loud cries,
and gash their arms and bodies with knives, yet cannot bring about
the miracle expected of them. Elijah, after mocking at their cries and
contortions, at last addresses a prayer to Jahveh, and fire comes
down from heaven and consumes the sacrifice in a moment; the people,
convinced by the miracle, fall upon the idolaters and massacre them, and
the rain shortly afterwards falls in torrents. After this triumph he is
said to have fled once more for safety to the desert, and there on Horeb
to have had a divine vision. "And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a
great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks
before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind
an earthquake; but the Lord w