ELIJAH AND AHAB 377 1 KINGS xviii. 1-20. CHAPTER XXXVII. ELIJAH ON MOUNT CARMEL 383 1 KINGS xviii. 20-40. CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE RAIN 399 1 KINGS xviii. 41-46. CHAPTER XXXIX. ELIJAH'S FLIGHT 404 1 KINGS xix. 1-4. CHAPTER XL. ELIJAH'S DESPAIR 415 1 KINGS xix. 1-10. CHAPTER XLI. HOW GOD DEALS WITH DESPONDENCY 424 1 KINGS xix. 5-8. CHAPTER XLII. THE THEOPHANY AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE 429 1 KINGS xix. 9-18. CHAPTER XLIII. THE CALL OF ELISHA 445 1 KINGS xix. 19-21. CHAPTER XLIV. AHAB AND BENHADAD 450 1 KINGS xx. 1-30. CHAPTER XLV. AHAB'S INFATUATION 463 1 KINGS xx. 31-43. CHAPTER XLVI. NABOTH'S VINEYARD 473 1 KINGS xxi. 1-29. CHAPTER XLVII. ALONE AGAINST THE WORLD 485 1 KINGS xxii. 1-40. CHAPTER XLVIII. CONCLUSION 497 APPENDIX. CHRONOLOGY OF THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 500 AUTHORITIES CONSULTED. Josephus, _Antiquities_, Books VII. to X. Munk, _Palestine_. 1845. Jahn, _Hist. of the Hebrew Commonwealth_, E. T. 1828. Reuss, _La Bible. Hist. des Israelites._ Paris, 1877. Renan, _Histoire du Peuple Israel_. 1885-1890. Lange, _Bibelwerk_ (_K. C. W. F. Bähr_, 1868). Bunsen, _Bibelwerk_. Heinrich von Ewald, _The History of Israel_, E. T. " " _The Rise and Splendour of the Hebrew Monarchy_. London, 1871. Grätz, _Geschichte der Israeliten_, vol. ii. Leipzig, 1875. Hitzig, _Geschichte des Volkes Israel_. 1847, 1857, 1870. Stade, _Geschichte des Volkes Israel_, vol. i. 1887. Kuenen, _Religion of Israel_, E. T. 1874. Eisenlohr, _Das Volk Israel unter der Herrschaft der Könige_. Leipzig, 1856. Klostermann, _Die Bücher Samuels und der Könige_. 1887. Van Oort, _Bible for Young People_, E. T., vol. iii. 1877. F. W. Newmann, _Hebrew Monarchy_, Second Edition. 1853. Milman, _Hist. of the Jews_, 3 vols.