person
Elijah
also: Elias, Elia
The Hebrew prophet who, after the slaughter of the prophets of Baal and the queen Jezebel's threat, fled into the wilderness, was fed by an angel, and heard the Lord not in storm or fire but in a 'still small voice' (1 Kings 18-19).
Reading notes
- New Poems: The Other Part §9 broom-bush
Elijah, who after slaying the prophets of Baal fled Jezebel into the desert and lay down under a broom-bush praying to die (1 Kings 19).
- New Poems: The Other Part §28 Elijah
Hearing the cry 'Eli, Eli,' the bystanders think the dying man calls the prophet Elijah and keep him alive for the spectacle of a rescue (Matthew 27:47).