Elijah was the most distinguished of the prophets of Israel. He lived in the 9th century BC, during the reigns of Ahab and Ahaziah, and until the beginning of the reign of Jehoram, his special function being to denounce vengeance on the kings of Israel for their apostasy. He incurred the anger of Jezebel, wife of Ahab, for slaying the prophets of Baal, but escaped to Horeb, afterwards returning to Samaria to denounce Ahab for the murder of Naboth. Elijah at length supposedly ascended to heaven in a chariot of fire, or so claims Elisha, his successor,claiming to have seen the event. Research Elijah
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