relates how God " heard the voice of Elijah ; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

After more than three years of drought and famine, God tells Elijah to return to Ahab and announce the end of the drought: not occasioned by repentance in Israel but by the command of the Lord, who had determined to reveal himself again to his people.

Elijah prays earnestly for rain to fall again on the land.

God again speaks to Elijah (): " What doest thou here, Elijah ?".

Then a " still small voice " comes to Elijah and asks again, " What doest thou here, Elijah?

Elijah encounters Ahab again in, after Ahab has acquired possession of a vineyard by murder.

God again speaks to Elijah and sends him to confront Ahab with a question and a prophecy: " Have you killed and also taken possession?

" The Holy One, blessed be His name, said to Elijah, ' Behold, the precious gift which I have bestowed on my world: though a man sins again and again, but returns in penitence, I will receive him '" ( Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin 28b ).

Once again, Elijah Wood and Gary Oldman reprise their roles while Billy West is replaced as the voice of Sparx by Wayne Brady, Christina Ricci replaces Mae Whitman as the voice of Cynder, and Blair Underwood voices Hunter of Avalar.

The Full Blooded Italians appeared on pay-per-view once again on December 3, 2006 at December to Dismember in a losing effort to Sylvester Terkay and Elijah Burke.

The poet-preacher is also a prophet ; Antichrist, he says, is born in Spain ; Elijah has come to life again in the Orient.

He played Elijah in John Huston's film version of Moby Dick, memorably intoning to Richard Basehart as Ishmael, " At sea one day, you'll smell land where there'll be no land, and on that day, Ahab will go to his grave, but he'll rise again within the hour.

While both Mark and Matthew mention the angels, Luke does not, and Matthew seems once again here to be making parallels with Elijah, who was fed by ravens.

Upon completing his studies, Elijah appeared to him again in a vision, and told him that he would succeed in his efforts and write a commentary on the Zohar.

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.

In typical Elijah fashion, the message begins with a blunt, impertinent question: " Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baalzebub, the god of Ekron ?"().

In the Books of Kings, Elijah challenges 450 prophets of a particular Baal to a contest at the altar on Mount Carmel to determine whose deity was genuinely in control of the Kingdom of Israel ; since the narrative is set during the rule of Ahab and his association with the Phoenicians, biblical scholars suspect that the Baal in question was probably Melqart.

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

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

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

In Judaism, Elijah's name is invoked at the weekly Havdalah ritual that marks the end of Shabbat, and Elijah is invoked in other Jewish customs, among them the Passover seder and the Brit milah ( ritual circumcision ).

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.

It is in this context that Elijah is introduced in as Elijah " The Tishbite ".

No background for the person of Elijah is given.

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.

" Elijah responds by throwing the charge back at Ahab, saying that it is Ahab who has troubled Israel by allowing the worship of false gods.

Elijah speaks with sharp irony: in the religious ambivalence of Israel, she is engaging in a wild and futile religious " dance ".

Elijah is the only person described in the Bible as going back to Horeb after Moses and his generation had left Horeb several centuries before.

Unlike Moses, who tried to defend Israel when they sinned with the golden calf, Elijah bitterly complains over the Israelites ' unfaithfulness and says he is the " only one left ".

Up until this time Elijah has only the word of God to guide him, but now he is told to go outside the cave and " stand before the Lord.

Suddenly, a chariot of fire and horses of fire appear and Elijah is lifted up in a whirlwind.

As Elijah is lifted up, his mantle falls to the ground and Elisha picks it up.

Healing in the Bible is often associated with the ministry of specific individuals including Elijah, Jesus and Paul.

Upon showing the kids how to play, one kid ( Elijah Wood ) comments " You mean, you have to use your hands?

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

) 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 sense of competition between the priestly forces of Yahweh and of Baʿal in the ninth century is nowhere more directly attested than in, where, Elijah the prophet offering a sacrifice to Yahweh, Baʿal's followers did the same.

Elijah Craig did not go with this group but followed a few years later after staying to negotiate guarantees of constitutional religious liberty with James Madison.

When he did finally emigrate, Elijah Craig purchased in what was then Fayette County of Virginia, in 1782, where he planned and laid out the nearby town originally called Lebanon, incorporated in 1784.

Elijah Parish, the latter of whom Ralph H. Brown asserts did the " lion's share of the work in compiling it.

To cite one case, in a recent round of constitutional reform, Elijah Harper, an aboriginal leader from Manitoba, was able to prevent ratification of the agreement in the provincial legislature, arguing that the accord did not address the interests of Canada's aboriginal population.

In The Caves of Steel, for example, it is noted that Baley's mother died shortly after his father was declassified ( lost his civil classification and therefore all social and economic status ), and that Elijah did not remember her.

* Then did Elijah the prophet break forth ( chorus )

To prove this Faustus drew attention to the view commonly held by both Jews and Christians that Elijah did not die.

Both views-that Jesus could die without having been born and that Elijah, though he was born, did not die-run counter to the laws of nature ...

* The Jerusalem Talmud " All the standing that the prophet Elijah did before his teacher Achiya Hashiloni, were as if standing before the Shekhinah.

When it was put before the legislature, NDP MLA Elijah Harper refused to grant unanimous leave for emergency debate, on the grounds that the deal did not recognize the position of aboriginals in Canada's constitutional framework.

The Book of Ezekiel implies that the rules about animals which die of natural causes, or are " torn by beasts ", were only adhered to by the priests, and were only intended for them ; the implication that they did not apply to, and were not upheld by, ordinary Israelites was noticed by the classical rabbis, who declared " the prophet Elijah shall some day explain this problematic passage ".

" In the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Michael Kennedy writes, " he work has become as popular with British choral societies as Messiah and Elijah, although its popularity overseas did not survive 1914.

To explain this discrepancy it is claimed that one of two things occurred: Either the container of Holy Anointing Oil miraculously multiplied when supply became low ( as did the cruise of oil mentioned in the story of Elijah and the widow woman or the oil that lasted for eight days without being consumed during the Jewish Chanukka ) or, following new oil was added to the old, thus continuing the original oil for all time.