* Elijah C. Hutchinson ( 1855 – 1932 ), represented from 1915 – 1923.

Elijah C. Wadhams was elected as the borough's first Burgess.

He studied law with Jacob Parker in Mansfield, Ohio, and studied law with Elijah Hayward in Washington, D. C .. Bartley was admitted to the bar in 1833, and began practice in Mansfield.

* Elijah C. ( Zeke ) Boyd, candidate in 1974 and 1976 for U. S. Senate from New York, in 1977 for Mayor of New York City

They decide to take a detour to see Freek Land, a freak show, and they wind up in the clutches of demented proprietor Elijah C. Skuggs ( Randy Quaid ) and his henchman, the long-tongued Toad ( Jaime Cardriche ).

They are then joined by the still-mutated Ortiz and the Stuey Monster before it's revealed that Skye Daley is actually Elijah C. Skuggs.

* Randy Quaid as Elijah C. Skuggs

These men, who would be known as the Beckett Land Company, consisted of Conant, Elijah Alford, Nathan Birchard, Gideon Bush, Dillingham Clark, Elisha Clark, Isaac Clark, Benjamin Higley, Aaron P. Jagger, Enos Kingsley, Jeremiah Lyman, Bill Messenger, Ebenezer Messenger, Benjamin C. Perkins, John Seely, and Alpheus Streator.

Elijah C. Hutchinson ( R )

Elijah C. Hutchinson ( R )

Elijah C. Phister ( D )

The power of every ecclesiastical organization has always rested on the miracle, and the clergy have always proved their divine commission as did Elijah ''.

This encounter ends with Elijah victorious over the official Baal prophets of Israel in a contest held for the sake of the Israelites and their king, Ahab.

The third is when Elijah confronts Ahab over Ahab and Jezebel's execution of Naboth and usurpation of his land in 1 Kings 21.

The Hebrew Bible says that dogs licked his blood, according to the prophecy of Elijah.

The followers of Yahweh found their champion in Elijah, whose story reflects the prophetic teaching of more than one age.

A third source, or set of sources, were cycles of stories about various prophets ( Elijah and Elisha, Isaiah, Ahijah and Micaiah ), plus a few smaller miscellaneous traditions.

The earlier period would place Obadiah as a contemporary of the prophet Elijah as reflected in 1 Kings, Chapter 18, Verses 1-16.

And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

The book concludes by calling upon the teachings of Moses and by promising that Elijah will return prior to the Day of the Lord.

Jews were slow to return to the town, but by 1750 the Rabbi Elijah Synagogue was built as the first Jewish synagogue in Casablanca.

Her parents, Samuel Elijah Eastman and Annis Bertha Ford, were both Congregational Church clergy, and together served as pastors at the church of Thomas K. Beecher near Elmira, New York.

At the end, he is taken up to heaven like Enoch and Elijah.

Derivative references to Elijah appear in the Talmud, Mishnah, the New Testament, and the Qur ' an.

In Christianity, the New Testament describes how both Jesus and John the Baptist are compared with Elijah, and on some occasions, thought by some to be manifestations of Elijah, and Elijah appears with Moses during the Transfiguration of Jesus.

In Islam, the Qur ' an describes Elijah as a great and righteous prophet of God, and one who powerfully preached against the worship of Ba ' al.

Elijah is also a figure in various folkloric traditions.

In Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania, he is known as " Elijah the Thunderer " and in folklore is held responsible for summer storms, hail, rain, thunder, and dew.

Elijah in the wilderness, by Washington Allston.

No background for the person of Elijah is given.

Elijah not only challenges Baal on behalf of his own God, Yahweh, he challenges Jezebel, her priests, Ahab, and the people of Israel.

When Elijah finds her and asks to be fed, she says that she does not have sufficient food to keep her and her own son alive.

Elijah tells her that God will not allow her supply of flour or oil to run out, saying, " Don't be afraid .. this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ' The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord gives rain on the land ," illustrating that the demand of the covenant is not given without the promise of the covenant.

In particular, 1 Kings 18: 7-8 reads: And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?

According to Bamidbar Rabbah, Ezra was doubtful of the correctness of some words in the Torah and said, " Should Elijah ... approve the text, the points dots that he scribed above the letters will be disregarded ; should he disapprove, the doubtful words will be removed from the text ".

According to the Books of Kings, Elijah defended the worship of Yahweh over that of the Phoenician god Baal ; he raised the dead, brought fire down from the sky, and was taken up in a whirlwind ( either accompanied by a chariot and horses of flame or riding in it ).

Elijah did not give a direct answer to the Lord's question but evades and equivocates, implying that the work the Lord had begun centuries earlier had now come to nothing, and that his own work was fruitless.

Elijah then goes beyond the prophecy he was given and tells Ahab that his entire kingdom will reject his authority ; that Jezebel will be eaten by dogs within Jezreel ; and that his family will be consumed by dogs as well ( if they die in a city ) or by birds ( if they die in the country ).

It generally resonates better with existing Muslim views than with Christianity: it foretells the coming of Muhammad by name ; rather than describing the crucifixion of Jesus, it describes him being raised up into heaven, similar to the description of Elijah in 2 Kings, Chapter 2 ; and it calls Jesus a " prophet " whose mission was restricted to the " house of Israel ".

Elijah Levita was called to the chair of Hebrew at the University of Paris.

According to tradition Jonah was the boy brought back to life by Elijah the prophet, and hence shares many of his characteristics ( particularly his desire for ' strict judgment ').

After Fard's departure in June 1934, the Nation of Islam was led by Elijah Muhammad, who established mosques called Temples, Schools named Muhammad University of Islam, businesses, farms and real estate holdings in the United States and abroad.

He was given his Muslim name, Farrakhan, by Elijah Muhammad.

After replacing his surname with an “ X ,” Clay was given his Muslim name, Muhammad Ali, by Elijah Muhammad.

An official Nation of Islam platform referred to as " The Muslim Program " was written by Elijah Muhammad in his book Message to the Blackman in America ( 1965 ).

This was, Elijah Muhammad claims, long before Adam.

In his Comment on the Gospel of Matthew, which stems from a 6th century Latin translation, it is written: " In this place Jesus said Elijah was come and referred to John the Baptist it does not appear to me that by Elijah the soul is spoken of, lest I fall into the doctrine of transmigration, which is foreign to the Church of God, and not handed down by the apostles, nor anywhere set forth in the scriptures " ( ibid., 13: 1: 46 – 53 ).

Afterwards he was visited by either a Bath Kol ( Heavenly voice ) or the prophet Elijah, who told him that he would be rewarded with the birth of a noble son " who would illuminate the world with his Torah knowledge.

) The team's starting halfback, Paul Hornung, was injured early in the season, but running back Elijah Pitts did a good job as a replacement, gaining 857 combined rushing and receiving yards.

( The final captions reveal that David led police to Elijah, who was committed to an institution for the criminally insane.

In 1961 and 1962 George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party, was invited to speak by Elijah Muhammad at a Nation of Islam rally.

De Leon ascribed the work to Shimon bar Yochai, a rabbi of the 2nd century during the Roman persecution who, according to Jewish legend, hid in a cave for thirteen years studying the Torah and was inspired by the Prophet Elijah to write the Zohar.

Conversely, Elijah Delmedigo ( c. 1458 – c. 1493 ), in his Bechinat ha-Dat endeavored to show that the Zohar could not be attributed to Shimon bar Yochai, arguing that if it were his work, the Zohar would have been mentioned by the Talmud, as has been the case with other works of the Talmudic period, that had bar Yochai known by divine revelation the hidden meaning of the precepts, his decisions on Jewish law from the Talmudic period would have been adopted by the Talmud, that it would not contain the names of rabbis who lived at a later period than that of Simeon ; and that if the Kabbalah was a revealed doctrine, there would have been no divergence of opinion among the Kabbalists concerning the mystic interpretation of the precepts.

These men, who had gone to Palestine from Europe either as pilgrims or as crusaders, chose Mount Carmel in part because it was the traditional home of Elijah.

Their former habit of a mantle with black and white or brown and white stripes — the black or brown stripes representing the scorches the mantle of Elijah received from the fiery chariot as it fell from his shoulders — was discarded and they wore the same habit as the Dominicans, except that the cloak was white.