Elijah's very name is a creed — my God is the LORD (Eli-Yah) — and his life was a contest to prove it. On Mount Carmel he faced four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal alone and prayed down fire from heaven, and all the people fell on their faces crying, the LORD, he is the God.
Yet he also knew despair under the juniper tree, where God met him not in wind or earthquake or fire but in a still small voice. Elijah never died: he was carried up by a whirlwind into heaven, and Scripture promises his return before the great day of the LORD.
Elijah has topped baby-name charts for years — powerful, prophetic, and warmly shortened to Eli.
Variants & nicknames
Eli, Elias, Ilya
Elijah in the Bible
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.