Elijah’s name is a combination of two names for God, Elohim and Yahweh (or Jehovah). It means literally “Yah is El” and could be translated “Yahweh is God.” Elijah has been called the most important leader of Yahweh worship since Moses and Samuel.10 Although he is one of the best-known prophets in the Old Testament, we know very little about his early life. According to verse 1 he was born in Tishbeh, an unidentified village probably in the vicinity of Gilead, where he was living when he appears