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Peter Zombory-Moldovan
Professional Negligence, Dispute Resolution and Commercial Litigation, Construction Disputes
Peter is a senior lawyer in the Dispute Resolution department.
He has over 20 years' experience in dealing with claims for professional negligence, breach of fiduciary duty and fraud against solicitors, barristers, accountants, financial advisors, surveyors, valuers, architects, engineers and insurance brokers.
Peter is a senior lawyer in the Dispute Resolution department. He has over 20 years' experience in dealing with claims for professional negligence, breach of fiduciary duty and fraud against solicitors, barristers, accountants, financial advisors, surveyors, valuers, architects, engineers and insurance brokers.
He also has extensive experience in advising on the professional indemnity insurance coverage issues to which such claims sometimes give rise and pursuing claims against insurers under the Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act in cases involving insolvent defendants.
Peter's clients include professional indemnity and commercial property insurers. He also regularly acts for claimants (whether individuals, partnerships or companies) in professional negligence claims and for professional insureds in coverage disputes with their indemnity insurers.
Peter also undertakes general commercial litigation, arbitrations and ADR, with particular expertise in mediation.
He has a special interest in art law, where he has dealt with disputes ranging from breach of copyright to conversion of goods.
Peter contributed chapters on Contribution and Professional Indemnity Insurance in the leading practitioner textbook on lender claims.
His extra-curricular activities include translations from German for the London stage and of a long-lost Hungarian memoir of the First World War. He is currently working on a book about T S Eliot and is planting an orchard.
- Recently acted for a major Bank in two multi-million pound claims against valuers for negligent over-valuation of commercial and residential properties in London and the South-East
- Acted for a defendant sole practitioner surveyor facing an uninsured claim for negligent over-valuation of a London residential property
- Acted for a defendant surveyor in complex multi-million pound litigation over the valuation of development land and in a professional indemnity insurance dispute with his insurers in relation to the claim
- Acted for the purchasers of a residential property in a professional negligence claim against their conveyancing solicitors for failing to advise in relation to Planning issues affecting the property
- Acted for a firm of Independent Financial Advisors in relation to a coverage dispute with their professional indemnity insurers
- Acted for the owners of a valuable work of art in a claim against a leading auction house
- Acted for the purchaser of a residential property in a claim against surveyors for negligent advice in relation to its value and against their indemnity insurers over coverage for the claim
- Acted for a major clothing manufacturing company in a claim against a firm of accountants for negligent advice in relation to a corporate acquisition
- Acted for a luxury goods manufacturing company in relation to a claim for breach of copyright in the design of packaging
- Acted for a commercial property insurance company in a coverage dispute with their policyholder following a major fire loss
- Acted for a solicitor facing a multi-million pound professional negligence claim from the purchaser of a bespoke luxury West End property
- 1997-2009 – Barrister, Squire and Co
- 1996-1996 – Pupil Barrister, 7 Kings Bench Walk
- 1995-1996 – Pupil Barrister, Essex Court Chambers
- 1987-1992 – Editorial Director, Longman Group
- University of Cambridge
- Inns of Court School of Law
- City University
- Poole Grammar School
- Lender Claims (Sweet & Maxwell, 2010) (co-author)
- La Ronde (Nick Hern Books, 2007) (co-translator)
- The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914 (New York Review Books, 2014) (translator and editor)


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Wow, my k/d is just over 1 and I've been jumping to my death a lot for block refill...
The only thing I would suggest for this is the ability to change the sorting method on the leaderboard. For example, showing the top ratios or top deaths.
If your username has a space, you would put your name in quotations (" ") So for you, it would be /login "big boss" [password]Have fun

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East Meadow Shopping Center
www.zacharyspartys.com (516) 794-9770
Labor Day Weekend is typically marked with lots of celebrations including BBQ's, picnics and pool parties.
Don't show up to the gathering empty-handed! Here are a few recipes that will surely be a hit! Not only are they delicious, but they serve a large group of people so there will be plenty to go around!
Who doesn't enjoy spinach and artichoke dip? This recipe is simple and only takes 35 minutes from start to finish.
Prepare 2 cups parmesan cheese; 1 box frozen chopped spinach-thawed or 10 ounces fresh spinach; 1 can (14 ounces) of artichoke hearts drained and chopped thinly; 2/3 cup sour cream; 1 cup cream cheese (nothing's better then Philadelphia Cream Cheese whipped!); ½ cup mayonnaise (Hellmann's Light) ; 2 teaspoons of garlic chopped really fine!
- - Preheat your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit
- - Mix together the Parmesan cheese, spinach and artichoke hearts
- - Combine the remaining ingredients and then add to the spinach mixture
- - Bake in the oven for 20-30 minutes
- - Serve with crackers or bread (lots of people like it with toasted bread!)
Prepare ¼ cup craisins (Ocean Spray Original Sweetened Dried Cranberries flavored ones are delicious!); 1 tablespoon sugar; 2 tablespoons water; ½ cup brandy; 1 bottle (75-ml) dry red wine chilled; 3 cups cranberry pomegranate juice drink chilled (Ocean Spray Cran-Pomegranate is perfect!); 1 cup orange juice chilled (Tropicana Low Pulp); 1 orange thinly sliced (don't peel!); 1 bottle club soda.
- - Combine sweetened dried cranberries, sugar and water in a small saucepan and cook over medium-low heat for 3 minutes (or until the sugar is dissolved)
- - Stir in brandy, and let cool
- - Combine mixture with wine, cranberry pomegranate juice and orange juice together in a large pitcher
- - Add orange slices and mix well
- - Stir in Club Soda before serving and enjoy!


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|Site Manager working hard, or is that hardly working?!
Thursday, 15 November 2012
Progress... Finally!
13 comments:
- Susan said...
I think you'll be surprised how good the forgotten fabrics look together when you're finished.
- 15 November 2012 at 18:43
- Maria said...
Now that is great way to put hexies together, no more hand sewing YES!!!!!
Looks great
- 15 November 2012 at 19:28
- Anne Downing said...
Love the material
- 15 November 2012 at 19:29
- katherine said...
I can visualise how you are putting it together and it will look wonderful. Love the site manager. I will have two supervisors today as the cat is being really clingy already and it isnt even 6am yet!
- 16 November 2012 at 02:56
- marina said...
they look lovely on their background fabrics. I am debating whether to put my novelty fabric hexies together on plain backgrounds with sashings. I don't want to make heaps of stepping stone hexies to put them together. so will watch your progress keenly to see how they come together. I like your think, plan as you go method!
- 16 November 2012 at 03:44
- Sandi said...
Love the think, plan as you go method...and don't under-estimate
the site manager, I quite often manage the household like this...lol
- 16 November 2012 at 03:58
- Jeanette said...
They look great Andrea. Your site manager is adorable. Hugs,
- 16 November 2012 at 04:50
- Fiona said...
The hexie flowers on the white background really makes them stand out... it will look lovely...
- 16 November 2012 at 05:04
- Maddy said...
Just love your fabrics bright fun and fresh on the white background.
- 16 November 2012 at 09:18
- Peg - Happy In Quilting said...
Your hexies look great Anthea....but have been a big day for the site Manager...LOL
- 16 November 2012 at 11:56
- Charlie and Wendy said...
I love your hexagon block, I look forward to seeing how this one turns out!
- 16 November 2012 at 11:58
- Deb R said...
Looking good!
- 16 November 2012 at 16:25
- Quilt Kitty said...
That is a brilliant idea Anthea. I have made flowers from my scraps to make the Vignette hexie quilt but they make me shudder to think of them side by side. White blocks like that would make a whole lot of difference & might mean I have enough made. I ay have to borrow your idea! Tracee xx
- 16 November 2012 at 19:32


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I can hear the fireworks starting outside, yet we are staying in on this Canada Day evening. I'm actually not the biggest fan of fireworks (they really all look the same after awhile...) and because it isn't dark until after 10 these days, the works won't start until 10:30 or 11pm - too late for our girls. So, they are in bed and we will stay home and watch some Veronica Mars (my latest addiction).
Today, however, we had a great day of exploration going Geocaching for the first time. Brian and I have wanted to do this before, and despite how accessible geocaches are wherever you go, we hadn't tried it yet. Brian downloaded an app on his phone, since we don't have a GPS specifically, and we wandered downtown searching. Wandering with the girls was slow going, but since we had no specific agenda, except to enjoy our day outdoors and maybe find some geocaches, it was totally relaxing and fun!
Our first search led us to a roundabout in the city, and because we really had no idea, Brian and Clara climbed onto the hill and investigated these statues. We probably weren't supposed to be there...
They searched for a few minutes, and then I 'called a friend'. :) A close friend of mine has been geocaching for years - and has gone geocaching all over the world, in fact - and so I gave him a call for some tips. He told us exactly where to go to find this one, and we certainly wouldn't have found it on our own. Part of geocaching is that you are supposed to be sneaky and stealthy so that those who are around - and not geocaching - won't also find the geocache and remove it or tamper with it in any way. Geocaching with two little girls is probably not the sneakiest way to do it...
And taking a photo like this probably doesn't help... Hopefully we didn't draw too much attention...
My friend gave us tips to find the next geocache as well, explaining what it looked like and then after about 20 minutes when we still couldn't find it, he told me exactly where to find it. He promised we'd get the 'hang' of it once we'd found a few, and we were definitely excited to continue!
The girls were tired, though, so we stopped for ice cream by the river and then went home to let Audrey nap and Clara rest for a couple of hours before having supper and then heading out again.
This time we went to the University - another good place to wander outside. The first geocache we 'found', although we didn't actually touch it. We saw it, though, which is close enough, right? I pulled a muscle in the process of trying to get it (it involved climbing - I haven't climbed in years!) and Brian's afraid of spiders. True story. We're not exactly weathered outdoorsmen, ok?
Anyway, the University campus was overrun with gophers which gave the girls something to watch for. This is a lousy, far-away picture, but I had to remember this. They were staring at a gopher hole in the ground that a gopher kept popping his head out of. From where I stood, I could hear them giggling hysterically every time they saw him, and Clara would yell "Beaver!!!" every time he went down again. We told her repeatedly that it wasn't a gopher, but she insisted on calling it a 'beaver', which was incredibly funny.
Then, after a little while, Audrey started yelling "Puppy!" in between Clara's exclamations of "Beaver". I could have peed, I was laughing so hard.
We got a lot of walking in, and in the process discovered something semi-active that we can do together as a family. We didn't bring the stroller at all, so both girls had to walk, and only occasionally did we carry one or the other of them. I definitely recommend it, and we will definitely do it again!
Happy Canada Day, all!


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I'm a felt lover…I admit it. If there were a 12 step program for felt addicts, I would have to join. If I'm out and I see something made with felt, I have to buy it. I'm sure that you can guess that I totally love The Littlest Bean then, right?
The Littlest Bean is the super felt talented Jen Menkhaus' line of accessories, jewelery and other lovelies which are created from felt (of course), fabric, beads & other found objects. Jen is a multi-talented lady and has worked in some crafty capacity or other for the last 16 years—from selling in galleries to doing displays for Anthropologie, and most recently as the Exhibitor Services Director for the Philadelphia Buyers Market of American Craft. She is also the co-founder and leader of BEST, a Baltimore-based craft collective.
You can see more of her work on her website, in her Etsy Shop & on her flickr page (where I just got lost for about an hour).
Jen has also very graciously offered to give away a $50 gift certificate to one very lucky reader! Lucky devil!
To win!
Visit the The Littest Bean website, Etsy Shop and/or flickr page, choose your favorite piece(s) and leave a comment on this post with them. You may share each of your faves, but please leave a separate comment for each one…that will also increase your chances of winning. One random commenter will be chosen to win a $50 gift certificate to the The Littlest Bean Etsy Shop. This giveaway will end Friday, October 23rd at 11:59 pm EST.
*** The Arcane Arts winner will be announced as soon as I hear back from the winner.


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I have been using this phone for two months with no sense of options like btooth ,IR atleast GPRS but it gives me satisfaction for calls and msgs could anyone can tell me how to connect via usb
in my hp dont have any nice ringing tone,hw can i have it..no bluetooth no infared
nice phone o k ! but how can I retrieve the taken photos to my computer ?
Charles, 11 Feb 2008My Motorola W218 is in Chinese language which I'm not familiar with. Could you direct me how t... moreyou should consult to service senter
Will, 17 Jan 2009I can't believe everyone is complaining about the features on this phone. I bought this phone ... moreI won this phone. Am i using it now, it look hat is does not have much features, but it is a simple phone and it light with a cool design. I like it.
I can't believe everyone is complaining about the features on this phone. I bought this phone for $50 new - You get what you pay for! If your going to be cheap like me you get a cheap features!!!
If you want to take photos - buy a camera.
If you want to listen to music - buy an ipod.
If you want to watch movies - buy a tv.
davio321, 26 Sep 2007u can get the photos out of the phone.it comes with a data cable and CD with software.plus the... moreI read that you can export the pictures. How do you do that?
great feat. for an affordable prices. I get it 32$ cam res quality are fair compare to L7 ... wasting money. 500Kb memo ? says 1pic=30kb for 16pics, hmmm ... again its fair for me personally I think You.
Dax, 13 Feb 2008I bought this phone today and assumed by the standard of the day that I had a full featured ca... moreYou're totally right. It makes no sense to have a camera if you cannot use the pictures for anything else. Besides, changing some features takes more work than previous simpler versions
bought this to my little brother, its gr8, cheap, no fear children will connect to unwanted stuff via gprs/3g, good battary
only limited ringtones
but perfect for up to 10 years old children, or to poor :D
hi people i wanted to ask why such a nice phone dosent have an mms and gprs and has camera if u want download photos or ringtones phone should have this staff i saw on market i wanted to get but now i find out that dosent have tose 2 important staffbut at least it good have fm radio and it good for people who want budget phone for calls and sms.chhers
I never had a problem with battery life. usually last 5 to 6 days standby. For a alternative for those that are on a budget definatly get it.
how do i get a USB cable to upload my pics please replay on my email firstname.lastname@example.com
I got this phone for the simplest use: Calling and Messaging, but it still failed at that.
- Nice and slim design.
- Buttons are thumb friendly.
- Battery lasts 1.5 days (with almost no use)!
- It doesn't have a direct access to the Volume controls. You need to go deep to the settings just to change it or mute it.
- It doesn't ring or notify you of new messages if you're inside a menu. You ONLY get messages/notifications until you are at the main screen. Really easy to miss things.
- Sometimes it doesn't even ring to notify you.
- Writing text is harder than in any other motorola cellphone. You can't end words with "_" but you need to press "Accept" for each word. Yes, that means your thumb going all the way up, making the messaging really tiring.
- No MMS
- It has a camera but no way to export the images. Waste of money in a useless feature.
I have used motorola for years and I can't believe that in 2008 there's a NEW model that works even worse than any older model.
Don't trust in this phone if you need SMS messaging.
u suck, 26 Jul 2008how can you build this cellphone with no bluetooth and infrared that's not i like this phone t... moreWhen you evaluate a device's specs, you need to consider its price group. As you can see here, this device is a low cost device, that's why no btooth nor infrared are integrated. You should consider to pay more for a phone if you're willing to have these functionalities.
What about the battery life?
How long battery backup?
What about the ringtone volume?
Can we listen the ring in a very noisy environment like heavy traffic jam?
Can we listen the speaker phone in a very noisy environment like heavy traffic jam?
Please tell me.
Thanks in advance.
how can you build this cellphone with no bluetooth and infrared that's not i like this phone this suck


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how long has this journal been going on? As long as our flickr group?
oh this looks so cool!
you lucky girl Sue! this cj is wonderful!
Thanks for posting up the finished cj Sue. Looks lovely, nice to see what everyone did. Great topic idea too. :)
Hi, I love reading your comments and if I don't reply to all of them, please know I appreciate every one.Have a lovely day :)


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The Good - after installation the barrel was again free floating.
The Bad - the fit and finish around the barrel was once again uneven one side to the other.
After visiting with my Gunsmith Ron in Encinitas he suggested that perhaps the posts on my action were the problem, ie they aren't perfectly straight. I may contact Remington about this issue and the likelihood that they would repair it but for now I'll live with it.
I intended to have him pillar bed the rifle to improve accuracy which would also allow him to place the pillars such that it would properly align the action with the stock. However, after spending more than an hour picking his brain he talked me out of having him do anything to the rifle for the time being. Instead he suggested focusing on load development before doing any upgrades to the rifle itself. He said that as it is the rifle should should shoot MOA (1" group at 100 yds) as it is with a good load. I fully expected Sub-MOA accuracy from this rifle out of the box but to be honest have only tested it once and wasn't impressed. After our conversation it became evident that a dirty barrel, wind conditions and a poor powder choice may have been to blame.
I tried to pry a list of upgrades in order of importance from Ron but he was reluctant. Here is my best shot at it.
Here is the basic process he suggested -
- Load Development - Find the powder, projectile, primer and seating depth that produces the best results both in accuracy. Consistency being more important than higher velocity.
- Gunsmithing - It was difficult to get him to list the different accuracy upgrades in order of importance but he for the average rifle he suggested the following
- Free Float Barrel - ie. upgrade your stock or modify your current stock by bedding or pillar bedding. (in my case the barrel is now floating and he seemed to think I was getting good contact between the action and aluminum bedding block based on the even rub marks on the bedding so he didn't think spending the money for pillars was worth it at this time.)
- Trigger Job - Most triggers come from the factory at 4-8 pounds. A 1.5 - 3 lbs trigger is best. (mine came from the factory at a surprisingly good 3 lbs so spending $50 for a half pound adjustment isn't warranted on a tight budget)
- Blue Printing or Truing - Disassembly of the action and barrel, truing both surfaces resulting in better alignment. The bolt face and lugs (knobs on the bolt that lock it forward when closed) are also trued to ensure a flush contact surface, even pressure distribution and a consistent fit shot to shot. By removing the bolt and examining the bolt lugs you can look for irregularities such as the signs of rubbing which indicate an uneven distribution of pressure. (mine lugs did show signs of uneven wear) Ron charges $45 to true each component. ($135 for barrel, action & bolt)
You can see the bluing is rubbed off only on the outside edge indicating that this is the only point on the lug that's making contact. After truing the fit would be custom milled ensuring contact is even across the lug face.
Optional Upgrades -
- Muzzle Brake - The 300 Win Mag can be brutal to shoot repeatedly do to heavy recoil. A good recoil pad can help but a muzzle brake will drastically reduce the recoil. Heavy recoil left uncontrolled can lead to Flinching which dramatically hinders shot to shot consistency and can be a difficult habit to break. Ron charges $50-75 to install a muzzle brake that you provide. Brakes cost between $75 and $200. Popular muzzle brakes - Ops inc, Badger Ordinance, Holland, Vais, JP, Defensive Edge.
- Tactical Bolt Knob - Looks great and makes cycling the bolt much easier thanks to the added size, weight and angle of the bolt know. About $35 for the average knob and $40-60 to install.
Additional Major Upgrades
- Match Grade Barrel - A Krieger or Lilja barrels are phenomenal but pricey. They won't get dirty as quickly and can increase accuracy significantly. $300 - 500 depending on the barrel.
I've taken Ron's advice and started loading a new series of loads for testing and even jumped the gun a bit and started toying with seating depth. I'll post a video on how to effectively find overall length without buying any expensive tools or gauges.


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|This article is about the Chain Contracted to Noise. You may be looking for Duldum, the extension of Duldee's power providing her control over a target's subconscious.
|Unknown (100+)
|Professional Status
|Personal Status
|First Appearance
|Manga Debut
|Retrace I: Innocent Calm
|Anime Debut
|Episode 2: Tempest of Conviction
|Japanese Voice
|Harumi Sakurai
| Duldee: How are you adjusting Duldum?
Duldum: My perspective is a little low, which is inconvenient... but i find it easy to move about in... Duldee.
—Duldum explains to Duldee her comfort within Gil's body
Duldee was a Chain with the ability to bind and control her victims physically and, on occasion, mentally through the use of Duldum. For more than 100 years, Duldee had a Contract with Noise, who was considered to be an anomaly among the Baskerville Clan because she was not human, but also lacked some defining qualities of true Baskervilles. For this reason, Noise was unable to control Duldee, and was often possessed by her and forced to go off on violent rampages--resulting in Noise's confinement from the outside world prior to the Tragedy of Sablier. When it came to Duldee's attention that her Contract with Noise was literally breaking Noise's heart, Duldee took to creating numerous incarnations of Duldum within Noise called The Echoes as the years went by, in an attempt to protect Noise's heart and prevent further breakage.
Eventually, Noise had lost enough of her true self that she began to act on what she believed was right without concerning herself with the consequences that her actions could have. As a result, Noise's heart reached it's pinnacle of destruction, and so Duldee decided to take matters into her own hands. Knowing that Vincent Nightray had the greatest hold over Noise, Duldee attempted to take control of Noise and force her to kill Vincent in order to stop him from destroying Noise's heart, without comprehending that such an act could have done so in itself. Refusing to let Duldee do as she pleased with Noise, the latest incarnation of Duldum within Noise, Echo, fought for Noise's heart against Duldee within Noise's subconscious. In the end, Echo managed to kill Duldee and restore Noise's heart for a short time, as both Echo and Noise would also die from the irreversible damage that had been done.
Most recently however, as Noise's heart continued to crack from all heartbreak she'd endured, Duldee took advantage of the opportunity at hand and forces Noise to the brink of destruction. This allowed Duldee to start to free herself from her bonds, her mask cracking and falling off to reveal Duldee's true face: empty dark voids for eyes and a jagged mouth full of sharp teeth. Unfortunately for Duldee, her new found freedom was cut short by Echo, leading to Duldee's neutralization, however it's as of yet unknown whether or not this means that Duldee is bound once again.
For the most part Duldee's appearance in the Pandora Hearts Anime is identical to her regular counterpart. However, rather than having a mask, Duldee's face is her own, allowing her to move her mouth as she pleased and even scream when she was cast out of Gilbert by Alice during Oz's Coming of Age Ceremony.
Much like other Chains, Duldee is primal and selfish in nature, loving nothing more than spreading chaos and anarchy without an apparent goal. What Duldee does desire however is a body of her own, which is why she took to possessing Noise in the first days of their Contract. Unfortunately, as a result of Noise's existence as an aberration among the Baskervilles, Noise's heart began to break, deteriorating Noise's own memories and even her will, prompting Duldee to intervene. Though Duldee created the special grouping of Duldums in Noise called Echoes, thereby putting a limit on her own freedom and binding her powers, it's likely that Duldee only did so to satisfy her own interests rather than doing it for Noise; knowing that she'd be back where she started if she lost her Contractor. This also still allowed Noise's heart to crack, meaning that Duldee could still potentially one day take ownership of Noise's body should the cracks continue to grow. All the while, Noise took to imitating Duldee and Vincent's own personalities, making more of another one of Duldee's marionettes.
In her bound form, Duldee followed Noise's orders as a Chain should, only truly interacting when an incarnation of Echo would grow to develop a will of her own and attempt to defy Duldee's plans in an attempt to restore Noise's heart to its former glory. Duldee would constantly cast out these Echoes into a "disposal zone" in Noise's subconscious so that they wouldn't be able to obstruct her goals, only to give life to a new Echo, one which would begin her life as a compliant and soulless soldier for Duldee to manipulate. When the time finally came for Noise's heart to break, Duldee wasted no time in breaking free of her bonds in order to ensnare her Contractor so that she could push Noise to kill Vincent; which would shatter what remained of Noise's fragile heart and allow Duldee to take Noise's body as her own. This shows that Duldee cares for no one but herself, though her manipulative and deviant personality ultimately proves to be no match against he own creation, resulting in her defeat.
HistoryShortly after a teenage girl was accepted by the Droplets of Lights and guided to Sablier to join the Baskerville Clan, she formed a Contract with Duldee, as all Baskervilles were meant to have Chains to act as companions who fought alongside them in battle and acted to protect them throughout their entire lives. Duldee's Contractor was considered an aberration among the Baskervilles however, as she lacked the proper qualities to control any power of the Abyss. This meant that Duldee could take advantage of her Contractor's weakness by often times possessing her and going off on violent rampages to satisfy her own blood lust. This prompted Oswald, the acting Glen Baskerville at the time, to take action by isolating Duldee's Contractor in a room in the basement of the Baskerville estate for her own good. Duldee's actions took a toll on her Contractor's heart, and so Duldee's Contractor's heart began to crack under the pressure placed on it. In order to preserve her Contractor's heart for the time being, Duldee placed an incarnation of Duldum within her Contractor's subconscious. This incarnation of Duldum would come to be known as "Echo" by her Contractor, and was meant to be used to both protect Duldee's Contractor's heart and allow Duldee to indirectly possess her Contractor whenever it seemed as though her mind was going to collapse; all while Duldee's own abilities were bound. However, with the damage that had already been done, Duldee's Contractor had lost all her memories regarding her name and origins, leaving her depressed and distraught. Eventually, Duldee's Contractor meets another Baskerville name Vincent, who visited with her briefly before he has to leave. Three days later, Vincent returned, only to discover that the girl he'd come to know wasn't herself, rather she was being possessed by an early incarnation of Echo, who helped Vincent understand the situation at hand concerning Duldee and her Contractor. This Echo also sent Duldee to tether Vincent with her strings, and while Duldee is sometimes unable to infiltrate a target's mind with an incarnation of Duldum due to the strength of their will, Duldee found herself unable to even take physical control of Vincent. As such a thing was unheard of, Echo questioned whether Vincent was immune to Duldee's power because of his existence as a Child of Ill Omen, which prompted outrage in Vincent, who then ordered Echo to switch places with Duldee's Contractor. Echo did as she was told, leaving Duldee's Contractor confused and depressed over her apparent weakness. Vincent provides Duldee's Contractor with a new identity as "Noise" (based off of the awful noises she made whenever she cried), assuring Noise that since they were considered to be aberrations, then they can be normal in each other's eyes, providing Noise with a sense of hope.
After the Tragedy of Sablier, Noise's heart continued to crack, resulting in the loss of some of the pieces. Echo would collect these fragments and take them into herself for safe keeping until the day when they could be returned to Noise once again. Unfortunately, without these fragments, Noise was left to imitate Duldee and Vincent's personalities in order to fill the void that had been made; all while Echo attempted to rise up against Duldee when Noise's heart provided her with a will of her own. As a result of the Echo's disobedience, Duldee cast her into a "disposal zone" within Noise's subconscious, where the Echo would be broken apart but still used to preserve what remained of Noise's heart. With the old Echo gone, Duldee would create a new incarnation of Echo, only to have her fall to the same effect as her predecessors because of the will she developed. This cycle of creation and decomposition was seemingly endless, though Duldee continued to create more and more Echoes in order to further her intentions for Noise. Approximately 100 years after the Tragedy of Sablier, Duldee created another new incarnation of The Echoes, who proved to be the most promising of The Echoes because of how much longer she seemed to last. Even though she had the fragments of Noise's heart within her, Echo seemed completely unaffected by them, and so instead she was simply empty, compliant, obedient, and without a will of her own, the ideal Echo in Duldee's eyes.
At an unspecified point, Noise managed to escape the Abyss and rejoin the Baskervilles, finding that more than 100 years had passed since the Tragedy of Sablier had taken place and that the Baskervilles have aligned themselves with the leader of the Nightray Dukedom, Duke Bernard Nightray, while they fly under the radar in the ruins of Sablier. By now, Noise's original persona was displaced into The Echoes, and so Noise's personality was more so a copy of Duldee's own personality.
Coming of Age Ceremony Arc
With the Coming of Age Ceremony for an heir to the Vessalius Dukedom, Oz Vessalius on rise, Xai Vessalius approaches Bernard and has him put Xai in contact with the Baskervilles. Xai tells Noise and her colleagues of a child prophesied to have a connection to the Intention of the Abyss that puts the world in peril should he continue to exist, who Xai believes is Oz. As such, the Baskervilles agree to help Xai drop Oz into the Abyss, and send Noise and two other Baskervilles with him in order to accomplish their goal.After the Baskervilles' arrival in Reveil, Duldee takes control of Noise once again and stalks Oz, Gilbert and Ada Vessalius. Once Gil is alone, Duldee swoops in behind him and compliments his formal wear for the Coming of Age Ceremony, as she wraps Noise's cloak around Gil and ensnares him with her strings. Duldee successfully gains control of both Gil's body and soul as she plants an incarnation of Duldum within him. Duldum wastes no time and puts on Gil's formal wear, twirling gleefully as he asks Duldee if his new clothes make him look like a prince. Agreeing that the outfit suits Duldum, Duldee asks how he's adjusting to Gil's body, which prompts Duldum to explain that even though the perspective is regrettably low, the mobility of his body is great, which is ideal. Then wrapping herself around Duldum, Duldee suggests that they carry on to the Coming of Age Ceremony, so that they can give Oz the greatest blessing imaginable.
Once Duldum has settled at his post in the Ceremony, Duldee steps back and allows Noise to take the reigns once again. Noise controls Duldum with Duldee from outside the church where the Ceremony is being held, waiting for the confirmation they desire alongside Xai and her two colleagues. Knowing that Noise has never been able to fully control Duldee, Xai is wary, but Noise assures him that everything is under control. Together, they wait until the Ceremony is underway, where the silent clock tower that stopped during the Tragedy of Sablier progresses again for the first time in more than 100 years; stopping time. The Baskervilles descend on the scene, with Noise having Duldee control Duldum into holding down Oz and stabbing him in the shoulder, thereby producing "blood drawn by a friend" in order for Duldum to play the role of the accuser in Xai's Ceremony of Judgement. With the blood, Xai has Gryphon open The Path so that they can drop Oz into the Abyss.
Unfortunately, the smell of Oz's blood intrigues Duldee, who (through Duldum) notes that Oz's blood isn't like the blood of other humans. Thirsty for more, Duldee attempts to have Duldum stab Oz in the heart and kill him, only to have Alice intervene when she uses the power of B-Rabbit to force Duldum out of Gil's body. Though Duldee's connection to Gil has been lost, her purpose was accomplished anyway, and so Noise makes a point of joining Xai in his fight against Alice. Unexpectedly, Gil regains control of his body and wakes to find Xai attempting to rid the world of Oz. Believing that Xai was trying to hurt Gil, Oz reaches for a nearby sword and charges, intent on unknowingly killing his father. After a strike of lightning reveals Xai's identity to Gil, he steps in front of Xai to stop Oz, only to take Oz's sword across his chest instead. With Oz in shock, Alice laughs over the pain and suffering of the situation, allowing Xai to banish her back to the Abyss while she's distracted. The chaos now at bay, Xai proceeds to summon Gryphon and drop Oz into the Abyss for his sin of existing, while Noise hold's Oz in place. Afterwards, Noise flees the area alongside Xai and her colleagues while time resumes, leaving the guests at the Ceremony confused.
Working With Pandora Arc
Ten years later, Noise hears of Oz's return from the Abyss and decides to return to the church where he'd been originally cast into the Abyss. Upon arrival, Noise is confronted by the numerous Pandora members who had been stationed there. Immediately, Noise summons Duldee and has her apply Duldum to all of the Pandora members and fully make them Duldee's marionettes. With the Pandora members under her control, Noise asks if it's indeed true that Oz escaped the Abyss, which the Pandora members confirm - knowing that Oz will return to the church.
Just as planned, Gilbert (known as Raven) returns to the church, initially not realizing that the Pandora members around him are being controlled by Duldum. With no other choice, Raven is forced to kill all of the Pandora members, severing Duldee's connection to them. For this, Noise laughs and calls Raven cruel and ruthless, though Raven insists that he won't play the role in Noise's puppet show. Raven shoots at Noise, leading Noise to realize that he's still angry about how she had Duldum hurt Oz with his body ten years before.Just then, Oz and Alice burst through the doors of the church, as they'd heard the shots fired by Raven earlier. Raven calls Oz a fool and urges him to leave while he still can. Noise however relishes in Raven's concern and fully summons Duldee to take control of Raven. Duldee then plants Duldum within Raven's mind, prompting Noise to introduce Oz and Alice to her Chain, explaining that she'd come to celebrate Oz's escape from the Abyss after ten years. To get things moving along, Noise also reveals Raven's true identity as Gil to Oz; explaining to him that he emerged from the Abyss ten years later because the Abyss is a dimension where time is out of order.
Cheshire's Dimension Arc
Duldee doesn't see action again for quite some time because of the injury that Noise received from Gilbert. However, this changes when one of Vincent's valets reports back to Vincent that Alice and Xerxes Break had been kidnapped by Cheshire. Seeing this as an opportunity, Vincent sends Echo to kidnap Sharon Rainsworth. Immediately afterward, Noise takes control and summons Duldee in-full to plant an extension of Duldum in Sharon and allow Noise to have complete control over Sharon Rainsworth's body. Duldee then has Duldum force Sharon to summon Equus to retrieve Alice and Oz from Cheshire's Dimension, but leave Gilbert and Break behind.
Equus drops Alice and Oz in the middle of a meeting between the Four Great Dukes at Pandora's Headquarters, as Vincent knew that Gil would have to use Raven to save himself and Break from being destroyed alongside Cheshire's Dimension. This removes the seal Raven held on Alice's power, thereby reverting her to her B-Rabbit form. Chaos follows shortly afterward as Bernard accuses Oz and Alice of attempting to assassinate the Four Great Dukes. With Pandora in an uproar, Duldee is put to use one last time, having Duldum send Vincent to Pandora as well through Equus. After this, Duldee's powers aren't needed anymore, and so she fades back into Noise, whilst Noise allows Echo to take over once again so that she can administer poison to both herself and Sharon to further Vincent's plans.
Sablier Arc
Vincent has Noise continue to rest after the ordeal in Cheshire's Dimension. Although, Noise is awoken from her slumber after Echo returns to the Nightray estate, having received a hit of residual power from B-Rabbit after standing too close to Oz when his Incuse progressed. Vincent has Noise trade places with Echo, as she's of more use to him than Echo is at the moment, as Vincent wants to send Noise to Sablier in his place.
Noise complies and journeys to Sablier alongside Lottie, the two descending into The Hole upon arrival, only to find Elliot Nightray and his valet, Leo during their descent. Lottie commends Elliot on his ability to see through the illusions cast by the power of the Abyss, as she has the Residents of The Hole surround them. With the two distracted, Noise calls upon Duldee to ensnare Leo with her strings. As Leo has a strong will, it makes it impossible for Duldum to take control of his mind. Unfortunately for Elliot, Duldee's strings can still take effect, and so Duldee forces Leo to aim his gun at Elliot and shoot, though the bullet only grazes Elliot's left cheek.
Lottie manages to take hold of Elliot, explaining to him that she and Noise can't allow them to go further into The Hole, as Oz, Alice and Gilbert are already ahead of them and being preoccupied by their own memories being projected by the powers of the Abyss. When Noise hears that Gilbert is one of the people further down in The Hole she loses focus and attempts to go after him, only to be stopped by Lottie. Lottie then admits that although she would rather not harm a child of the Nightray Dukedom, but her hands are tied, and so she sends the Residents of The Hole after Elliot and Leo.
Suddenly, an explosion echoes throughout The Hole, which is followed by the murder of several Residents of The Hole. Then, Duldee's strings holding Leo under Noise's control are cut, as is the rope Lottie had been holding Elliot with, forcing Duldee's presence to fade back into Noise. Xerxes Break reveals himself to the two Baskervilles, leading to Noise being impaled by Break's sword and ultimately their defeat as Elliot and Leo make their escape. Later, Noise is returned to Vincent and begins to heal the wounds inflicted by Break.
Jack's Intention Arc
Vincent doesn't allow Noise to see any action after she was attacked by Break in Sablier. It's not until after Oz's second Coming of Age Ceremony turned into a disaster in the form of The Feast (thanks to Isla Yura and his Cult) that Noise made her reappearance. Both Vincent and Noise disappear from the public eye for a few days after The Feast because of their connection to the Baskervilles. Three days after The Feast, Vincent and Noise return to the Nightray estate, Vincent having Noise summon Duldee and plant more of Duldum in the Pandora members stationed there. With Duldee controlling the Pandora members, Vincent and Noise could utilize the Nightray estate as their 'safe house' for the time being, with Vincent having Noise remain in the mansion while he met with Bernard.
Vincent would later return with Leo, having learned that Leo is meant to inherit the title of Glen Baskerville from Bernard prior to assassinating him. After Leo accepts his role as Glen Baskerville, Vincent takes him to Sablier to formally introduce him as Glen to the Baskervilles and form an Illegal Contract with Jabberwock. At some point during this time, Vincent also had Noise switch places with Echo once again, though it's unknown what became of the Pandora members Duldee had complete control of.
Swan Song Arc
Noise forcibly takes control of her body from Echo when she decides to attempt killing Oz, only to fail and fatally wound Oscar Vessalius instead. Noise accepts the pain she causes Oz by killing Oscar as a consolation prize for a brief moment, though it's not long before Noise decides she's going to continue pursuing her goal of murdering Oz.
Noise decides that she wants to go to Sablier, and so she knocks Ada Vessalius unconscious and kidnaps her as leverage. Noise arrives in the grand hall shortly after Break, Sharon and Sheryl Rainsworth regained use of their Chains and fought back against the Baskervilles. When Break attempts to attack, Noise reveals her hostage and threatens to kill her if Break comes any closer. Ada's presence draws Xai out, which Noise wasn't sure would actually work because of Xai's coldness toward Oz. Immediately after Xai reveals himself, Noise has Duldee ensnare Xai in her strings so that she can forcibly have Xai summon Gryphon. Noise loads Ada onto Gryphon's back and reveals that she intends on seeing Vincent once more in Sablier, having Xai take Gryphon through a nearby window after picking up Lottie, Lily and Dug. Duldee's control over Xai manages to hold strong, as Duldee forces Xai to take Noise to Sablier. However, after encountering something in the sky over Sablier, Gryphon is sent off-track and is forced to drop everyone into the streets of Sablier below. Whether or not Xai is still under Duldee's control has yet to be seen. Xai does eventually escape Duldee's control but is wounded in the process after Oz fought Noise and The Cook in rescuing Ada.
With her defeat, Noise's heart began to grow weary, once again cracking and allowing Duldee to reign free, thus prompting Noise to bruise all along her body. Duldee escapes some of her binds and then tangles Noise in her threads, allowing her to completely control Noise by whispering suggestions in her ear alongside Duldee's physical element of control. Duldee forces Noise to journey into the broken Courtroom Dimension that Jury generated, attacking Reim, Sharon, Lottie, Dug and Lily when they obstruct her path to the Baskerville Door to the Abyss. Eventually, Duldee forces Noise through the Door, where she journeys back through time and is dropped into the time of the Tragedy of Sablier.
With Noise completely at her mercy, Duldee has Noise immediately begin her search for Vincent in Sablier; all while attempting to get Echo on her side within Noise's subconscious. Echo asks what Duldee intends on doing with Noise, with Duldee explaining that Noise is completely spent and that because of this, their original Contractor, who's heart they'd tried so hard to protect, no longer exists. Thus, Duldee decides that, even though they weren't given the body by Noise, it shouldn't be a problem for Echo to work alongside her in order to receive it. Frightened by Duldee's claims, Echo asks if she's right to assume that Duldee intends on taking over Noise's body completely; a question which Duldee avoids with a smile as she directs Noise into the room where Vincent, Gilbert, Oz, Alice, Oswald, Cheshire and Jabberwock are fighting.
Ecstatic, Duldee laughs at her triumphs over Noise, though as she notices a horrified Echo, Duldee attempts to justify to her that her actions aren't unprovoked, as Noise lacks the will to act as their Contractor anymore. As such, Noise couldn't control Duldee anymore, making it easier to manipulate her so that Noise becomes more like one of her marionettes rather than a human. However, Echo outright refuses to help Duldee, stating that she won't allow Duldee to purposefully influence Noise's heart any longer. Frustrated with Echo's disobedience, Duldee demands that Echo explain herself, wondering what happened to Echo because by saying things like that she sounds almost like a human. Laughing, Duldee commends Echo because she's the oldest incarnation of Duldum, but rationalizes that Echo must have been broken somewhere along the line just like those before her. Submerging Echo in the waters of Noise's subconscious, casts Echo into a "disposal zone", admitting that Echo had worked so very hard during their time together and promising to become great friends with Echo's replacement.
(To Be Concluded!)
Powers and Abilities
Marionette - The only known ability that Duldee possesses is the ability to take control of her targets both mentally and physically. To begin with, Duldee simply wraps thin strings around the appendages of her targets to gain control of their physical bodies. This often causes Duldee's targets to panic and struggle, leading to them further tangling themselves in Duldee's strings, which in-turn only makes Duldee's hold on her target's stronger. By controlling people's bodies, Duldee can force them to fire weapons against their
wills, or even summon and control their Chains if she so desires. Duldee can also infiltrate people's minds by planting an extension of her power, Duldum, within as a split personality. Duldum acts as a servant to Duldee and will do whatever she commands, allowing Duldee to have complete control of her targets; as Duldum's presence will block out the target's original will.
Unfortunately, Duldee's marionette ability is limited. This means that a person with a strong enough will of their own can resist Duldee's placement of Duldum within their subconscious. However, this doesn't mean that an individual capable of resisting Duldum will escape Duldee's strings. Additionally, very few people are capable of resisting both Duldee's strings and her placement of Duldum within their subconscious (e.g. Vincent Nightray). Duldee's hold over someone can also be severed on occasion. This was shown at Oz's Coming of Age Ceremony when B-Rabbit's power cast Duldum out of Gilbert's subconscious, as well as in Sablier when Break cut Duldee's strings with his sword.
(*) - Denotes that the character did not appear physically, but as a part of another character's memories.
- The inspiration for Duldee's name, comes from the characters of Tweedledee from Lewis Carroll's Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.
- After Duldee uses her marionette ability to take control of someone, that individual's every movement will make a clattering noise similar to an old-style marionette.
- The original concept of controlling her victims with the 'marionette' ability originally belonged to another Chain named The Card of Fives in Jun Mochizuki's Pandora Hearts One-Shot.
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|Glen Baskerville
|Previous Glens
|Glen Baskerville (♀) (†) • Levi (†) • Oswald (†)
|Lottie • Dug • Lily •
|Previous Members
|Fang (†) • Lacie (†) • Celia (†) • Gilbert Nightray • Alice (†) • Intention of the Abyss (†) • Noise (†) • Vincent Nightray (†)
|Previous Associates
|Bernard Nightray (†) • Raymond Nightray (†) • Arthur Barma (†) • Rufus Barma (†) • Xai Vessalius (†) • Jury
|Jabberwock • Leon • Bandersnatch • Lars
|Previous Chains
|Lacie's Chain • Tove • Raven • Owl • Dodo • Gryphon • Duldee • Duldum • Echo • Demios the Executioner • Dormouse


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See "The Temple: Its Ministry and Services: Jewish Traditions about the Passover."
See also "A Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica," Exercitations upon the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 17.
ELIJAH THE TISHBITE has been well entitled 'the grandest and the most romantic character that Israel ever produced.' Certainly there is no personage in the O.T. whose career is more vividly portrayed, or who exercises on us a more remarkable fascination. His rare, sudden, and brief appearances, his undaunted courage and fiery zeal, the brilliancy of his triumphs, the pathos of his despondency, the glory of his departure, and the calm beauty of his reappearance on the Mount of Transfiguration, throw such a halo of brightness around him as is equalled by none of his compeers in the sacred story. The ignorance in which we are left of the circumstances and antecedents of the man who did and who suffered so much, doubtless contributes to enhance our interest in the story and the character. 'Elijah the Tishbite of the inhabitants of Gilead,' is literally all that is given us to know of his parentage and locality. It is in remarkable contrast to the detail with which the genealogies of other prophets and leaders of Israel are stated. Where the place--if it was a place--lay, which gave him this appellation we know not, nor are we likely to know. It is not again found in the bible, nor has any name answering to it been discovered since.
The mention of Gilead, however, is the key-note to much that is most characteristic in the story of the prophet. Gilead was the country on the further side of the Jordan--a country of chase and pasture, of tent-villages, and mountain-castles, inhabited by a people not settled and civilized like those who formed the communities of Ephraim and Judah, but of wandering, irregular habits, exposed to the attacks of the nomad tribes of the desert, and gradually conforming more and more to the habits of those tribes; making war with the Hagarites, and attacking the countless thousands of their cattle, and then dwelling in their stead (1 Chron 5:10,19-22). To an Israelite of the tribes west of Jordan the title 'Gileadite' must have conveyed a similar impression, though in a far stronger degree, to that which the title 'Celt' does to us. What the Highlands were a century ago to the towns in the Lowlands of Scotland, that, and more than that, must Gilead have been to Samaria or Jerusalem.
With Elijah, of whom so much is told, and whose part in the history was so much more important, this is still more necessary. It is seen at every turn. Of his appearance as he 'stood before' Ahab--with the suddenness of motion to this day characteristic of the Bedouins from his native hills, we can perhaps realize something from the touches, few, but strong, of the narrative. Of his height little is to be inferred--that little is in favor of its being beyond the ordinary size. His chief characteristic was his hair, long and thick, and hanging down his back, * and which, if not betokening the immense strength of Samson, yet accompanied powers of endurance no less remarkable.
* 2 Kings 1:8, 'a hairy man'; literally, 'lord of hair.' This might be doubtful, even with the support of the LXX and Josephus and of the Targum Jonathan--the same word used for Esau in Genesis 27:11. But its application to the hair of his head is corroborated by the word used by the children of Bethel when mocking Elisha. 'Bald-head' is a peculiar term applied only to want of hair at the back of the head; and the taunt was called forth by the difference between the bare shoulders of the new prophet and the shaggy locks of the old one.
His ordinary clothing consisted of a girdle of skin round his loins, which he tightened when about to move quickly (1 Kings 18:46). But in addition to this he occasionally wore the 'mantle,' or cape, of sheep-skin, which has supplied us with one of our most familiar figures of speech. *
* Addereth, always used for this garment of Elijah, but not for that of any prophet before him. It is perhaps a trace of the permanent impression which he left on some parts of the Jewish society, that a hairy cloak became afterwards the recognized garb of a prophet of Jehovah (Zech 13:4; A.V. 'rough garment'; where the Hebrew word is the same which in Elijah's history is rendered 'mantle').
In this mantle, in moments of emotion, he would hide his face (1 Kings 19:13), or when excited would roll it up as into a kind of staff. On one occasion we find him bending himself down upon the ground with his face between his knees. *
* This is generally taken as having been in prayer; but kneeling apparently was not (certainly is not) an attitude of prayer in the East. 'When ye stand praying, forgive' (Mark 11:25; and see Matt 6:5, &c).
Such, so far as the scanty notices of the record will allow us to conceive it, was the general appearance of the great Prophet, an appearance which there is no reason to think was other than uncommon even at that time. *
* This is to be inferred, as we shall see afterwards, from king Ahaziah's recognition of him by mere description.
The solitary life in which these external peculiarities had been assumed had also nurtured that fierceness of zeal and that directness of address which so distinguished him. It was in the wild loneliness of the hills and ravines of Gilead that the knowledge of Jehovah, the living God of Israel, had been impressed on his mind, which was to form the subject of his mission to the idolatrous court and country of Israel.
The northern kingdom had at this time forsaken almost entirely the faith in Jehovah. The worship of the calves had been a departure from him, it was a violation of his command against material resemblances; but still it would appear that even in the presence of the calves Jehovah was acknowledged, and they were at any rate a national institution, not one imported from the idolatries of any of the surrounding countries. They were announced by Jeroboam as the preservers of the nation during the great crisis of its existence: 'Behold thy gods, O Israel, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt' (1 Kings 12:28). But the case was quite different when Ahab, not content with the calf-worship--'as if it had been a light thing to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat'--marrried the daughter of the king of Sidon, and introduced on the most extensive scale the foregin religion of his wife's family, the worship of the Phoenician Baal. What this worship consisted of we are ignorant--doubtless it was of a gay, splendid, and festal character, and therefore very opposite to the grave, severe service of the Mosaic ritual. Attached to it and to the worship of Asherah (A.V. 'Ashtaroth,' and 'the groves') were licentious and impure rites, which in earlier times had brought the heaviest judgments on the nation (Num 25; Judg 2:13,14; 3:7,8). But the most obnoxious and evil characteristic of the Baal-religion was that it was the worship of power, of mere strength, as opposed to that of a God of righteousness and goodness--a foreign religion, * imported from nations the hatred of whom was inculcated in every page of the law, as opposed to the religion of that God who had delivered the nation from the bondage of Egypt, had 'driven out the heathen with his hand, and planted them in'; and through whom their forefathers had 'trodden down their enemies, and destroyed those that rose up against them.' It is as a witness against these two evils that Elijah comes forward.
* [And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. Daniel 11:36-38]
What we may call the first Act in his life embraces between three and four years--three years and six months for the duration of the drought, according to the statements of the New Testament (Luke 4:25; James 5:17), and three or four months more for the journey to Horeb, and the return to Gilead (1 Kings 17:1-19:21). His introduction is of the most startling description: he suddenly appears before Ahab, as with the unrestrained freedom of Eastern manners he would have no difficulty in doing, and proclaims the vengeance of Jehovah for the apostasy of the king. This he does in the remarkable formula evidently characteristic of himself, and adopted after his departure by his follower Elisha--a formula which includes everything at issue between himself and the king--the name of Jehovah, his being the God of Israel, the Living God, Elijah being his messenger, and then--the special lesson of the event--that the god of power and of nature should be beaten at his own weapons. 'As Jehovah, God of Israel, liveth, before whom I stand,' whose constant servant I am, 'there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.' What immediate action followed on this we are not told; but it is plain that Elijah had to fly before some threatened vengeance either of the king, or more probably of the queen (comp. 19:2). Perhaps it was at this juncture that Jezebel 'cut off the prophets of Jehovah' (1 Kings 18:4). He was directed to the brook Cherith, either one of the torrents which cleave the high table-lands of his native hills, or on the west of Jordan, more in the neighborhood of Samaria. There in the hollow of the torrent-bed he remained, supported in the miraculous manner with which we are all familiar, till the failing of the brook obliged him to forsake it. How long he remained in the Cherith is uncertain. The Hebrew expression is simply 'at the end of days,' nor does Josephus afford us any more information. A vast deal of ingenuity has been devoted to explaining away Elijah's 'ravens.' The Hebrew word, Orebim, has been interpreted as 'Arabians,' as 'merchants,' as inhabitants of some neighboring town of Orbo or Orbi. By others Elijah has been held to have plunered a raven's nest--and this twice a day regularly for several months! There is no escape from the plain meaning of the words--occurring as they do twice, in a passage otherwise displaying no tinge of the marvellous--or from the unanimity of all the Hebrew MSS, of all the ancient versions, and of Josephus.
His next refuge was at Zarephath, a Phoenician town lying between Tyre and Sidon, certainly the last place at which the enemy of Baal would be looked for. The widow woman in whose house he lived seems, however, to have been an Israelite, and no Baal-worshipper, if we may take her adjuration by 'Jehovah thy God' as an indication. Here Elijah performed the miracles of prolonging the oil and the meal; and restored the son of the widow to life after his apparent death.
Here the prophet is first addressed by the title, which, although occasionally before used to others, is so frequently applied to Elijah as to become the distinguishing appellation of himself and his successor: 'O Thou man of God'--'Now I know that thou art a man of God' (1 Kings 17:18,24).
In this, or some other retreat, an interval of more than two years must have elapsed. The drought continued, and at last the full horrors of famine, caused by the failure of the crops, descended on Samaria. The king and his chief domestic officer divide between them the mournful duty of ascertaining that neither round the springs, which are so frequent a feature of central Palesine, nor in the nooks and crannies of the most shaded torrent-beds, was there any of the herbage left, which in those countries is so certain an indication of the presence of moisture. No one short of the two chief persons of the realm could be trusted with this quest for life or death--'Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.' It is the moment for the reappearance of the prophet. He shows himself first to the minister. There, suddenly planted in his path, is the man whom he and his master have been seeking for more than three years. 'There is no nation or kingdom,' says Obadiah with true Eastern hyperbole, 'whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee'; and now here he stands when least expected. Before the sudden apparition of that wild figure, and that stern, unbroken countenance, Obadiah could not but fall on his face. Elijah, however, soon calms his agitation--'As Jehovah of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to Ahab'; and thus relieved of his fear that, as on a former occasion, Elijah would disappear before he could return with the king, Obadiah departs to inform Ahab that the man they seek is there. Ahab arrived, Elijah makes his charge--'Thou hast forsaken Jehovah and followed the Baals.' He then commands that all Israel be collected to Mount Carmel with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, and the four hundred of Asherah (Ashtaroth), the latter being under the especial protection of the queen.
There are few more sublime stories in history than this. On the one hand the solitary servant of Jehovah, accompanied by his one attendant; with is wild shaggy hair, his scanty garb, and sheep-skin cloak, but with calm dignity of demeanor and the minutest regularity of procedure, repairing the ruined altar of Jehovah with twelve stones, according to the number of the twelve founders of the tribes, and recalling in his prayer the still greater names of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel--on the other hand the 850 prophets of Baal and Ashtaroth, doubtless in all the splendor of their vestments (2 Kings 10:22), with the wild din of their 'vain repetitions' and the maddened fury of their disappointed hopes, and the silent people surrounding all--these things form a picture with which we are all acquainted, but which brightens into fresh distinctness every time we consider it. The conclusion of the long day need only be glanced at. The fire of Jehovah consuming both sacrifice and altar--the prophets of Baal killed, it would seem by Elijah's own hand (18:40)--the king, with an apathy almost unintelligible, eating and drinking in the very midst of the carnage of his own adherents--the rising storm--the ride across the plain to Jezreel, a distance of at least 16 miles: the prophet, with true Bedouin endurance, running before the chariot, but also with true Bedouin instinct stopping short of the city, and going no further than the 'entrance of Jezreel.'
So far the triumph had been complete; but the spirit of Jezebel was not to be so easily overcome, and her first act is a vow of vengeance against the author of this destruction. 'God do so to me, and more also,' so ran her exclamation, 'if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.' It was no duty of Elijah to expose himself to unnecessary dangers, and, as at his first introduction, so now, he takes refuge in flight. The danger was great, and the refuge must be distant. The first stage on the journey was Beer-sheba--'Beer-sheba which belongeth to Judah,' says the narrative, with a touch betraying its Israelitish origin. Here, at the ancient haunt of those fathers of his nation whose memory was so dear to him, and on the very confines of cultivated country, Elijah halted. His servant--according to Jewish tradition the boy of Zarephath--he left in the town; while he himself set out alone into the wilderness--the waste uninhabited region which surrounds the south of Palestine. The labors, anxieties, and excitement of the last few days had proved too much even for that iron frame and that stern resolution. His spirit is quite broken, and he wanders forth over the dreary sweeps of those rocky hills wishing for death--'It is enough! Lord, let me die, for I am not better than my fathers.' It is almost impossible not to conclude from the terms of the story that he was entirely without provisions for this or any journey. But God, who had brought his servant into this difficulty, provided him with the means of escaping from it. Whether we are to take the expression of the story literally or not is comparatively of little consequence. In some way little short of miraculous--it might well seem to the narrator that it could be by nothing but an angel--the prophet was awakened from his dream of despondency beneath the solitary bush of the wilderness, was fed with the bread and the water which to this day are all a Bedouin's requirements, and went forward, 'in the strength of that food,' a journey of forty days 'to the mount of God, even to Horeb.' Here, in 'the cave,' one of the numerous caverns in those awful mountains, perhaps some traditional sanctuary of that hallowed region, at any rate well known--he remained for certainly one night. In the morning came the 'word of Jehovah'--the question, 'What doest thou here, Elijah? Driven by what hard necessity dost thou seek this spot on which the glory of Jehovah has in former times been so signally shown?" In answer to this invitation the prophet opens his griefs. He has been very zealous for Jehovah; but force has been vain; one cannot stand against a multitude; none follow him, and he is left alone, flying for his life from the sword which has slain his brethren. The reply comes in that ambiguous and indirect form in which it seems necessary that the deepest communications with the human mind should be couched, to be effectual. He is directed to leave the cavern and stand on the mountain in the open air, face to face with Jehovah. Then, as before with Moses (Exo 34:6), 'The Lord passed by'; passed in all the terror of his most appalling manifestations. The fierce wind tore the solid mountains and shivered the granite cliffs of Sinai; the earthquake crash reverberated through the defiles of those naked valleys; the fire burnt in the incessant blaze of eastern lightning. Like these, in their degree, had been Elijah's own modes of procedure, but the conviction is now forced upon him that in none of these is Jehovah to be known. Then, penetrating the dead silence which followed these manifestations, came the fourth mysterious symbol--the 'still small voice.' What sound this was, whether articulate voice or not, we cannot even conjuecture; but low and still as it was it spoke in louder accents to the wounded heart of Elijah than the roar and blaze which had preceded it. To him no less unmistakably than to Moses, centuries before, it was proclaimed that Jehovah was 'merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth.' Elijah knew the call, and at once stepping forward and hiding his face in his mantle, stood waiting for the Divine communication. It is in the same words as before, and so is his answer; but with what different force must the question have fallen on his ears, and the answer left his lips! 'Before his entrance to the cave, he was comparatively a novice; when he left it he was an initiated man. He had thought that the earthquake, the fire, the wind, must be the great witnesses of the Lord. But he was not in them; not they, but the still small voice had that awe in it which forced the prophet to cover his face with his mantle. What a conclusion of all the past history! What an interpretation of its meaning!" (Maurice, Prophets and Kings). Not in the persecutions of Ahab and Jezebel, nor in the slaughter of the prophets of Baal, but in the 7000 unknown worshippers who had not bowed the knee to Baal, was the assurance that Elijah was not alone as he had seemed to be.
Three commands were laid on him--three changes were to be made. Instead of Ben-hadad, Hazael was to be king of Syria; instead of Ahab, Jehu the son of Nimshi was to be king of Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat was to be his own successor. Of these three commands the two first were reserved for Elisha to accomplish, the last only was executed by Elijah himself.
Ahab and Jezebel now probably believed that their threats had been effectual, and that they had seen the last of their tormentor. At any rate this may be inferred from the events of chapter 21. Foiled in his wish to acquire the ancestral plot of ground of Naboth by the refusal of that sturdy peasant to alienate the inheritance of his fathers, Ahab and Jezebel proceed to possess themselves of it by main force, and by a degree of monstrous injustice which shows clearly enough how far the elders of Jezreel had forgotten the laws of Jehovah how perfect was their submission to the will of their mistress. At her orders Naboth is falsely accused of blaspheming God and the king, is with his sons stoned and killed, and his vineyard then--as having belonged to a criminal--becomes at once the property of the king.
Ahab loses no time in entering on his new acquisition. Apparently the very next day after the execution he proceeds in his chariot to take possession of the coveted vineyard. Behind him, probably in the back part of the chariot, ride his two pages Jehu and Bidkar (2 Kings 9:26). But the triumph was a short one. Elijah had received an intimation from Jehovah of what was taking place, and rapidly as the accusation and death of Naboth had been hurried over, he was there to meet his ancient enemy, and as an enemy he does meet him--as David went out to meet Goliath--on the very scene of his crime; suddenly, when least expected and least wished for, he confronts the miserable king. And then follows the curse, in terms fearful to any Oriental--peculiarly terrible to a Jew--and, most of all, significant to a successor of the apostate princes of the northern kingdom--'I will take away thy posterity; I will cut off from thee even thy very dogs; I will make thy house like that of Jeroboam and Baasha; thy blood shall be shed in the same spot where the blood of thy victims was shed last night; thy wife and thy children shall be torn in this very garden by the wild dogs of the city, or as common carrion devoured by the birds of the sky'--the large vultures which in eastern climes are always wheeling along under the clear blue sky, and doubtless suggested the expression to the prophet.
A space of three or four years now elapses (comp. 1 Kings 22:1,51; 2 Kings 1:17), before we again catch a glimpse of Elijah. The denunciations uttered in the vineyard of Naboth have been partly fulfilled. Ahab is dead, and his son and successor, Ahaziah, has met with a fatal accident, and is on his death-bed, after a short and troubled reign of less than two years (2 Kings 1:1,2; 1 Kings 22:51). In his extremity he sends to an oracle or shrine of Baal at the Philistine town of Ekron to ascertain the issue of his illness. But the oracle is nearer at hand than the distant Ekron. An intimation is conveyed to the prophet, probably at that time inhabiting one of the recesses of Carmel, and, as on the former occasions, he suddenly appears on the path of the messengers, without preface or inquiry utters his message of death, and as rapidly disappears. The tone of his words is as national on this as on any former occasion, and, as before, they are authenticated by the name of Jehovah--'Thus saith Jehovah, Is it because there is no God in Israel that ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub, god of Ekron?" The messengers returned to the king too soon to have accomplished their mission. They were possibly strangers; at any rate they were ignorant of the name of the man who had thus interrupted their journey. But his appearance had fixed itself in their minds, and their description at once told Ahaziah, who must have seen the prophet about his father's court or have heard him described in the harem, who it was that had thus reversed the favorable oracle which he was hoping for from Ekron. The 'hairy man'--the 'lord of hair,' so the Hebrew reading runs--with a belt of rough skin round his loins, who came and went in this secret manner, and uttered his fierce words in the name of the God of Israel, could be no other than the old enemy of his father and mother, Elijah the Tishbite. But ill as he was this check only roused the wrath of Ahaziah, and, with the spirit of his mother, he at once seized the opportunity of possessing himself of the person of the man who had been for so long the evil genius of his house. A captain was despatched, with a party of fifty, to take Elijah prisoner. He was sitting [perhaps-'dwelt'] on the top of 'the mount,' i.e. probably of Carmel (comp. 2 Kings 2:25). The officer approached and addressed the prophet by the title which, as before noticed, is most frequently applied to him and Elisha--'O man of God, the king hath spoken: come down.' 'And Elijah answered and said, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven and consume thee and thy fifty! And there came down fire from heaven and consumed him and his fifty." A second party was sent, only to meet the same fate. The altered tone of the leader of a third party, and the assurance of God that his servant need not fear, brought Elijah down. But the king gained nothing. The message was delivered to his face in the same words as it had been to the messengers, and Elijah, so we must conclude, was allowed to go harmless. This was his last interview with the house of Ahab. It was also his last recorded appearance in person against the Baal-worshippers.
(Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, 1872)
"Over the centuries the Jews have developed a number of traditions about Elijah the prophet...His appearance as the forerunner of Messiah will motivate the Jewish people to national and individual repentance. The rabbis believe that Elijah and the Messiah will usher in a time of peace and harmony for all nations. They believe that Elijah will resolve all legal questions and the discrepancies in religious law (Halachah). In addition they expect him to establish the proper rituals for the restoration of the Temple service. Curiously, they describe Elijah as a partner to Moses in God's coming kiingdom, the same role that Aaron used to perform during the Exodus.
"The rabbis teach that Elijah will appear at some point in time (either three days or three years) before the advent of the Messiah. They anticipate that he will appear in Palestine and utter a lament over the devastation of the Holy Land. After Michael the Archangel blows his trumpet, Elijah will introduce the Messiah to the world. The Talmud claims that several wonders will accompany the coming of Elijah and the Messiah: (1) He will bring Moses back to life. (2) He will reveal the secret location of the three holy vessels that mysteriously disappeared: the Ark of the Covenant, the Flask of Manna and the container of sacred anointing oil. (3) He will carry the royal scepter of Judah which God promised 'shall not depart from Judah...until Shiloh come' (Gen 49:10). (4) He will transform the geography of the Holy Land, leveling the mountains.
"Another curious belief of the rabbis is that Elijah will be one of the eight princes that will form the cabinet of the Messiah. Additionally, they tell us that Elijah will restore the tribal identities of the Jews."
(Prince of Darkness, Grant R. Jeffrey)
See also Armageddon
See also The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, Alfred Edersheim
See also The Life of Elijah by Arthur W. Pink
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