[605] Henry Smith, The Trumpet of the Lord sounding to Judgment.
[606] Tobit i. 2.
[607] Josephus, Antt., VIII. xiii. 2; Vat. (LXX.), Θεσβίτης ὁ ἐκ θεσβῶν. The Alex. LXX. omits Θεσβίτης. An immense amount has been written about Elijah. Among others, see Knobel, Der Prophetismus, ii. 73; Köster, Der Thesbiter; Stanley, ii., lect. xxx.; Maurice, Prophets and Kings, serm. viii.; F. W. Robertson, ii., serm. vi.; Milligan, Elijah (Men of the Bible).
[608] See 1 Chron. ii. 55.
[609] See Cheyne, The Hallowing of Criticism, p. 9.
[610] Zech. xiii. 4.
[611] The word also means "sea-mist" (Cheyne, p. 15).
[612] Lev. xxvi. 19; Psalm cxxxiv. 1; Heb. x. 11.
[613] So too Ecclus. xlviii. 2, "He brought a sore famine upon them, and by his zeal he diminished their number"; but the writer adds, "By the word of the Lord he shut up the heavens." Deut. xxviii. 12; Amos iv. 7.
[614] 2 Sam. xxi. 1.