## Rashi on I Kings Chapter 19

###### Rashi on I Kings 19:2:1
[Rashi on I Kings 19:2:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/19:2:1)

**כֹּה יַעֲשׂוּן אֱלֹהִים.** כְּמוֹ שֶׁעָשִׂיתָ לִנְבִיאֵי הַבַּעַל.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**So may the gods do.** As you have done to the prophets of the Baal.


###### Rashi on I Kings 19:4:1
[Rashi on I Kings 19:4:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/19:4:1)

**רֹתֶם.** ייניבר"א בְּלַעַ"ז (עַרְעָר קוֹצָנִי).

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Juniper.** *Genevrier*, in O.F.


###### Rashi on I Kings 19:4:2
[Rashi on I Kings 19:4:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/19:4:2)

**וַיֹּאמֶר רַב.** (תַּרְגּוּם:) סַגִּי לִי אַרְכָּא, עַד אֵימָתַי אֲנָא מַטְרַף כְּדֵין.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And he said, “It is enough.”** [Targum Yonoson rendered,] “My long life is enough,¹ until when will I be confused like this?”

footnotes:
¹ According to the opinion that Eliyahu is Pinchos, Aharon’s grandson, he was over 500 years old at this time.


###### Rashi on I Kings 19:6:1
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**רְצָפִים.** פֶּחָמִים, וְכֵן: וּבְיָדוֹ רִצְפָּה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Hot coals.** Hot coals, and similarly, “and in his hand was a hot coal [רצפה].”²

footnotes:
² Yeshayahu 6:6.


###### Rashi on I Kings 19:9:1
[Rashi on I Kings 19:9:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/19:9:1)

**אֶל הַמְּעָרָה.** הִיא נִקְרַת צוּר שֶׁעָמַד בָּהּ משֶׁה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**To the cave.** That is the cleft of the rock where Moshe stood.³⁴

footnotes:
³ Shemos 33:22. The cave that Eliyahu entered is “the cleft of the rock” in which Moshe stood while God’s Divine Presence passed.
⁴ See Maseches Megillah 19b and Rashi there.


###### Rashi on I Kings 19:10:1
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**אֶת מִזְבְּחֹתֶיךָ הָרָסוּ.** בָּמוֹת יָחִיד הַנַּעֲשׂוֹת לְשֵׁם שָׁמַיִם, שֶׁהֲרֵי מִזְבַּח בֵּית הַבְּחִירָה בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם הָיָה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**They have demolished Your Altars.** [I.e.,] the private altars that were built in the Name of Heaven,⁵ for the altar of the Beis [Hamikdosh] was in Yerusholayim.⁶

footnotes:
⁵ See above 18:30 and Rashi there.
⁶ Eliyahu intimated that God should take vengeance against the Bnei Yisroel.—Ralbag


###### Rashi on I Kings 19:11:1
[Rashi on I Kings 19:11:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/19:11:1)

**וְרוּחַ גְּדוֹלָה.** (תַּרְגּוּם:) מַשִּׁרְיַת מַלְאֲכֵי רוּחָא.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And a great wind.** [Targum Yonoson rendered,] “a camp of angels of the wind.”


###### Rashi on I Kings 19:11:2
[Rashi on I Kings 19:11:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/19:11:2)

**בְּרַעַשׁ.** (תַּרְגּוּם:) מַשִּׁרְיַת מַלְאֲכֵי זִיעָא.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**In the earthquake.** [Targum Yonoson rendered,] “a camp of angels of earthquake.


###### Rashi on I Kings 19:12:1
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**אֵשׁ.** (תַּרְגּוּם:) מַשִּׁרְיַת מַלְאֲכֵי אֶשָּׁתָא.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Fire.** [Targum Yonoson rendered,] “a camp of angels of fire.”


###### Rashi on I Kings 19:12:2
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**קוֹל דְּמָמָה דַקָּה.** (תַּרְגּוּם:) קָל דִּמְשַׁבְּחִין בַּחֲשַׁאי, אֲבָל בִּנְבִיאֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם אוֹמֵר: דְּמָמָה וְקוֹל אֶשְׁמַע, דְּמָמָה הָיְתָה לְשַׁבֵּחַ. וַאֲנִי שָׁמַעְתִּי קוֹל הַבָּא מִתּוֹךְ הַדְּמָמָה, דטינטישמנ"ט בְּלַעַ"ז (הֵד), וְאֵין שׁוֹמְעִין הַקּוֹל מַמָּשׁ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**A calm quiet.** [Targum Yonoson rendered,] “a voice of those praising quietly,” but regarding the prophets of the [other] nations, it states, “Silence and a voice I heard,”⁷ there was silence to the praising. But I heard, it is a voice coming out of the silence, *rentesment*, in O.F., but the voice itself is not heard.

footnotes:
⁷ Iyov 4:16.


###### Rashi on I Kings 19:13:1
[Rashi on I Kings 19:13:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/19:13:1)

**וַיָּלֶט פָּנָיו.** (תַּרְגּוּם:) וְכָרִיךְ אַפּוֹהִי, וְכֵן הוּא אוֹמֵר: לוּטָה בַשִּׂמְלָה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**He wrapped his face.** [Targum Yonoson rendered,] “and he wrapped his face,”⁸ and so it states, “wrapped up [לוטה] in a cloth.”⁹

footnotes:
⁸ In the same manner that Moshe covered his face at the “burning bush” in Shemos 3:6.
⁹ I Shmuel 21:10.


###### Rashi on I Kings 19:16:1
[Rashi on I Kings 19:16:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/19:16:1)

**תִּמְשַׁח לְנָבִיא תַּחְתֶּיךָ.** אִי אֶפְשִׁי בִּנְבִיאוּתְךָ, מֵאַחַר שֶׁאַתָּה מְלַמֵּד קָטֵּיגוֹרְיָא עַל בָּנַי.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**You should anoint as prophet in your place.** [God said,] “I do not want your prophecy, because you plead for the prosecution of My children.¹⁰

footnotes:
¹⁰ Alternatively, “you should appoint another prophet in your place because you had asked to die, and for God to take your soul,” in v. 4 above.—Radak


###### Rashi on I Kings 19:17:1
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**יָמִית אֱלִישָׁע.** לֹא מָצִינוּ שֶׁהֵמִית אֶלָּא אַרְבָּעִים וּשְׁנַיִם יְלָדִים עַל יְדֵי הַדֻּבִּים בִּירִיחוֹ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Elisha will kill.** We do not find that Elisha killed anyone but the forty-two children through the bears in Yericho.¹¹

footnotes:
¹¹ See II Melochim 2:24. Alternatively, the hunger in Shomron was initiated by Elisha’s curse, as implied in II Melochim 6:31.—Ralbag


###### Rashi on I Kings 19:20:1
[Rashi on I Kings 19:20:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/19:20:1)

**לֵךְ שׁוּב.** מֵאַחֲרַי.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Go back.** From following me.¹²

footnotes:
¹² Eliyahu was testing Elisha’s resolve.—Radak


###### Rashi on I Kings 19:20:2
[Rashi on I Kings 19:20:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/19:20:2)

**כִּי מֶה עָשִׂיתִי לָךְ.** שֶׁתָּבוֹא אַחֲרַי.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**For what have I done to you.** That you should follow me.


###### Rashi on I Kings 19:21:1
[Rashi on I Kings 19:21:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/19:21:1)

**בִּשְּׁלָם הַבָּשָׂר.** בִּשֵּׁל לָהֶם אֶת הַבָּשָׂר, כָּךְ פֵּרְשׁוּ דוֹנַ"שׁ וּמְנַחֵם, וְכֵן תִּרְגְּמוֹ יוֹנָתָן בִּשְׁתֵּי תֵבוֹת (בָּשִׁיל לְהוֹן). וַאֲנִי אוֹמֵר, אֵין צָרִיךְ לְחַלְּקוֹ לִשְׁתֵּי תֵבוֹת, וּמַהוּ בִּשְּׁלָם הַבָּשָׂר, בִּשְּׁלָם לִשְׁנֵי הַשְּׁוָרִים אֶת הַבָּשָׂר שֶׁלָּהֶם, שֶׁהַצֶּמֶד אֵין פָּחוֹת מִשְּׁנַיִם.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**He cooked the meat for them.** He cooked for them the meat, so do Dunash and Menachem explain, and so did [Targum] Yonoson render [בשלם] as two words [בשיל להון]. But I say, that it is unnecessary to divide it into two words, and what is the meaning of “בשלם הבשר”? He cooked the two oxen, their flesh, for צמד is a minimum of two.


###### Rashi on I Kings 19:21:2
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**וַיִּתֵּן לָעָם.** מֵרֹב שִׂמְחָה עָשָׂה מִשְׁתֶּה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And he gave it the people.** He made a feast out of great joy.