In the Book of Kings, Elijah is taken up to heaven in a whirlwind, in a fiery chariot. But it's not clear if that means he dies a spectacular death in the chariot or lives and goes to heaven. But in ...

The Book of 1 Kings Chapter 17 During the Passover Seder, Jews pour an extra glass of wine for the prophet Elijah and leave the door open so he can com ...

Sunday’s readings contain an interesting illustration of the way that the Bible can use numbers. In the Old Testament reading, Elijah is on the run from the evil queen Jezebel and he goes out ...

In one of the stories in the Bible's Book of Kings, Elijah flees to the wilderness and falls asleep under a juniper tree, exhausted and prepared to die. Suddenly an angel shakes him awake and ...

According to the first Book of Kings, she established Phoenician pagan worship at Ahab’s court on a grand scale. At her table were no less than 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Baal’s ...

As scholar Daniel C. Matt (Brandeis University Class of 1972) shows in his new book, “Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation,” Elijah starts out in the Bible’s Book of Kings as an ...