A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: 1 Kings (Biblia.com)

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Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures has served as a standard reference for more than a century. The subtitle “Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical” aptly describes the three-pronged approach to the biblical text. This translated version of the German text is often considered by many to be superior to the original.

and worshipper of idols, but that she was not in the native land of the prophet. By מָעוֹג “the smallest-sized bread in the form of cake is to be understood (Thenius). It is baked in hot ashes; the Sept. has ἐγκρυφίας (cf.Ps. 35:16). כַּד is a little vessel for holding meal. Oil was used in baking. The woman was collecting the wood to have her last “baking,” for she saw before her death from starvation. Vers. 13–16. And Elijah said unto her, Fear not, &c. The prophet attaches to his word of consolation

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