Chorath

Hmm.

"Then the word of the Lord came to him saying, 'Get away from here and turn eastward and hide by the brook of Cherith.' "

Okay.

Yep.

I am, yeah.

Okay.

So it goes on to say, "So he went and did according to the word of the Lord," this is Elijah, "for he went and stayed by the brook of Cherith, which flows into the Jordan." This is interesting on six: "The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.

And it happened after a while that the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land."

Rising almost perpendicularly a short distance beyond the fountain of Elijah is the Corontana Mountain, first so called by the Crusaders in memory of the forty days of the temptation, although it seems to have been sacred from a much earlier period, as there are remains of many hermitages, one of which is said to have been occupied by S. Chariton about 400 AD.

It is a panorama, wonderful not only in extent, but in the amount of detail which, in the cloudless air of the east, we are enabled to distinguish, and we would willingly pause longer, but the sun is high in the heavens, we have been six hours in the saddle, and leaving our horses to follow, we find a pleasant relief from the glare in descending an almost perpendicular path into the Wadi Kelt, the deep gorge of the brook Cherith, where a monastery marks the site of the alleged hiding place of the prophet Elijah.

It is perched on a narrow shelf high up on the perpendicular rock wall of the ravine, and can only have acquired its present resemblance to domestic architecture by slow and painful labour.

The lower story of rough, massive stones apparently designed for a fortress is all that remains of an ancient monastery founded in 535, possibly upon the site of an earlier habitation of the Essenes, an esoteric sect of Jews whose life somewhat resembled that of the religious order amongst Christians.

But the wedge-tailed raven, Corvus affinis, with his whistling cry and jackdaw-like air of gaiety, did not show until we reached the cliffs of a higher district.

The lady openly exulted in the lack of accessible game and grudged even the occasional shots fired as disturbing to the smaller creatures in which she found delight.

The grackle, the blackbird with orange under wings with whom we had already made friends by the brook, Cherith, whose bell-like notes sounded from tree to tree, the dainty sunbird, Cineres ossoi, whose metallic sheen flashed in and out of the tamarisk trees, the delicate-hued Moabite sparrow, the aristocrat of his family, who ran up reeds and tree trunks like the familiar tits at home.

We were too early to see the flights of birds of passage on their way south to warmer climes and which before and after the winter months pause in the thickets of the Jordan Basin and fill the air with music, which includes the notes of the cuckoo and the nightingale and recalls, however irreverently, Browning's ode to be in England now that April's here.

They then returned to the holy city.

Her next tour was through Jericho again, and then northwards up the Jordan Valley until they came first to Salem, where they visited Melchizedek's church and city, then to Ainan, Thisbe, Elijah's native place, and the brook Cherith, and so crossing the Jordan into the Acetus Uz, where they made the burying place of Job at Carneas or Deneba the final point of their journey.

The church had been built by some tribune, but left unfinished.

Here again Etheria refers to the thankfulness and joy with which she and her companions made their communion at the special oblation which the bishop offered at her request before they returned once more to Jerusalem.

But there is a gap in the manuscript in the middle of the account of this tour.

After leaving the brook Cherith, they continued up the valley until they saw on the left towards Phoenicia on the northwest a great and very high mountain which extended, and there the gap begins, and when the story is taken up again, we are at Job's burial place.

Valerius, chapter 2, mentions several mountains as visited by her which are omitted in our fragments.

Tharon, where Moses prayed with hands uplifted, but that no doubt she described before our fragments begin, page 1.

Seventeen.

Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word." And the word of the Lord came to him: "Depart from here and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.

You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there." So he went and did according to the word of the Lord.

He went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is east of the Jordan.

And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening.

And he drank from the brook.

Get away from here.

Turn eastward and hide by the brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan.

It'll be that you'll drink from the brook.

And I have commanded you ravens to feed you there.

So he went by the word of the Lord, by the brook Cherish.

At a time of famine and hunger, the blessing of God came upon Elijah and ravens fed him there.

Now I wonder, where did the ravens get the food? May I suggest off the king's table? Elijah was out by some brook by Cherith, and every day the Lord sent from heaven a raven over to the king's food.

And the king says to the raven, hey, here's a loaf of bread.

You'll go through them over and over again.

For the first year of the three and a half years of drought, God took Elijah to a place called Kerith, and Kerith was a place and a time of obscurity.

The Bible says, verse 2 of 1 Kings 17, then the Lord said to Elijah, this is after Ahab had said, I'm going to kill you, go east and hide in the Kerith ravine, east of the Jordan, Jordan River.

The Kerith brook will give you fresh water to drink, and I've commanded ravens to to bring you food there every day.

That's unusual.

So Elijah obeyed what the Lord said to do.

He moved to the Kerith ravine and he lived there.

And the birds brought him food each morning and evening and he drank from the brook.

Notice how definite the thought is.

Not westward, not north-south, eastward, and hide by the brook Cherith, not just any brook, which flows into the Jordan.

And it will be that you shall drink from the brook And I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.

There.

If he would have said.

I ain't going no brook.

Cherith.

And I ain't going no eastward.

But when you hear the word of the Lord being read audibly, you are literally hearing the voice of God.

Verse 2, the Bible says, went and dwelt by the brook Cherith that is before Jordan.

And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning and bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank of the brook.

And it came to pass after a while that the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

The Bible tells us that Elijah disappeared.

Look to your Bible there in verse 2.

The Bible says, And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, Get thee hence and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith that is before Jordan.

That phrase that you see there in the word of the, in the word of God.