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?

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

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.

The first encounter has to do with Elijah, whom Ahab refers to as " the troubler of Israel " ( 1 Kings 18: 17 ), in which Elijah predicts a drought ( 1 Kings 17: 1 ).

The first two are destroyed by fire which Elijah calls down from heaven.

* 1789 – Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig.

* 1959 – Elijah Jerry " Pumpsie " Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate.

The first stands for " Movement for the welcoming of the Elohim, creators of humanity " ( Mouvement pour l ‘ accueil des Elohim, créateurs de l ' humanité ) while the second stands for " Moses preceded Elijah and the Christ " ( Moise a devancé Élie et le Christ ).

In his 2012 book The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama music historian and musician Elijah Wald says the term was first defined in a 1921 pop song-" Don't Slip Me in the Dozens, Please ", recorded by the black vaudeville comic Henry Troy, composed by Chris Smith, who accompanied Troy on the piano.

The first four robot novels The Caves of Steel ( 1953 ), The Naked Sun ( 1956 ), The Robots of Dawn ( 1983 ), and Robots and Empire ( 1985 ) make up the Elijah Baley ( sometimes " Lije Baley ") series, and are mysteries starring the Terran Elijah Baley and his humaniform robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw.

Today several Latter Day Saint churches are represented in Jackson County, most notably the Community of Christ, the LDS Church, the Church of Christ ( Temple Lot ) and the Church of Christ with the Elijah Message — the first and last two of these have their worldwide headquarters there.

General Elijah Covington was among the first landowners.

Thus ( Irenaeus, i. 30, p. 109 ) the first archon sent Moses, Joshua, Amos, and Habakkuk ; the second Samuel, Nathan, Jonah, and Micah ; the third Elijah, Joel, and Zechariah ; the fourth Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Daniel ; the fifth Book of Tobit and Haggai ; the sixth Micah ( qu.

The first settler was Elijah Lincoln in 1830, who established a land claim one and a half miles southwest of present Bunker Hill.

The first settler to Carbon was Elijah Walters in 1849.

Among the first settlers of European origin in the Clinton area was Elijah Buell, who built a log cabin on July 25, 1835 and established the town of Lyons, named after the French city of the same name.

The first Europeans credited with having settled the area now known as Bowling Green were Robert Moore, his brother George and General Elijah Covington.

The first permanent settlers in the area were Elijah Carmen and his family, who arrived in 1835.

Leslie was first settled by Elijah Woodworth in 1836, who built the first log cabin in the city.

Elijah White was the first permanent white settler in the township in 1855.

The home of Elijah Terry, the first teacher in the local school, was built in 1823 and sits next to the Bald Hills Schoolhouse, built in 1850.

Elijah C. Wadhams was elected Plymouth Borough's first Burgess in 1866.

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