Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 18:12

12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not ; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will slay me : but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth .

The Holy Ghost, to whom the inspiration and conduct of the Prophets is commonly ascribed in Holy Scripture, as Isa. 48. 16. and 61. 1. Matth. 4. 1. Act. 16. 6, 7. who might do this either immediately by his own power, or by an Angel, or by a strong wind.

Such transportations of the Prophets having doubtless been usual before this time, as they were after it. See 2 King. 2. 16. Ezek. 3. 12, 14. Mat. 4. 1. Act. 8. 39.

Either as a cursed impostor that hath deluded him with vain hopes: or rather, because I did not forthwith seize upon thee, and bring thee to him to receive punishment.

He speaks not these, nor the following words, in way of vain boasting; but onely for his own necessary vindication and preservation, that he might move the Prophet to pity and spare him, and not put him upon that hazardous action; which yet he was resolved to do, if the Prophet peremptorily required it.