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Elijah Defeats the Prophets of Baal

20 Ahab sent for the Israelis and brought the prophets together at Mount Carmel, 21 where Elijah approached all the people and asked them, “How long will you keep hesitating[a] between both sides? If the Lord is God, go after him. If Baal, go after him.”

But the people didn’t say a word.

22 So Elijah told the people, “I’m the only one left over as a prophet of the Lord, am I? But Baal’s prophets number 450 men?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 18:21 Lit. dancing; or limping