19 Now therefore, send and gather all Israel to me on (A)Mount Carmel, the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, (B)and the four hundred prophets of [a]Asherah, who [b]eat at Jezebel’s table.”

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  1. 1 Kings 18:19 A Canaanite goddess
  2. 1 Kings 18:19 Are provided for by Jezebel

33 (A)And Ahab made a [a]wooden image. Ahab (B)did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

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  1. 1 Kings 16:33 Heb. Asherah, a Canaanite goddess

26 Alammelech, Amad, and Mishal; it reached to (A)Mount Carmel westward, along the Brook Shihor Libnath.

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25 Then he went from there to (A)Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.

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20 (A)Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and (B)those who worshiped his image. (C)These two were cast alive into the lake of fire (D)burning with brimstone.

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20 Nevertheless I have [a]a few things against you, because you allow [b]that woman (A)Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, [c]to teach and seduce My servants (B)to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

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  1. Revelation 2:20 NU, M against you that you tolerate
  2. Revelation 2:20 M your wife Jezebel
  3. Revelation 2:20 NU, M and teaches and seduces

Destructive Doctrines

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be (A)false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.

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And though they (A)hide themselves on top of Carmel,
From there I will search and take them;
Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea,
From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them;

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And he said:

“The Lord (A)roars from Zion,
And utters His voice from Jerusalem;
The pastures of the shepherds mourn,
And the top of (B)Carmel withers.”

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18 As I live,” says the King,
(A)Whose name is the Lord of hosts,
“Surely as Tabor is among the mountains
And as Carmel by the sea, so he shall come.

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Nevertheless they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who had made Israel sin, but walked in them; (A)and the [a]wooden image also remained in Samaria.

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  1. 2 Kings 13:6 Heb. Asherah, a Canaanite goddess

22 Now it happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?”

So he answered, “What peace, as long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft are so many?”

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Then the king of Israel (A)gathered [a]the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to fight, or shall I refrain?”

So they said, “Go up, for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

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  1. 1 Kings 22:6 The false prophets

Elijah Escapes from Jezebel

19 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, also how he had (A)executed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, (B)“So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”

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42 So Ahab went up to eat and drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; (A)then he bowed down on the ground, and put his face between his knees, 43 and said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.”

So he went up and looked, and said, “There is nothing.” And seven times he said, “Go again.”

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22 Then Elijah said to the people, (A)“I alone am left a prophet of the Lord; (B)but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men.

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13 Also he removed (A)Maachah his grandmother from being queen mother, because she had made an obscene image of [a]Asherah. And Asa cut down her obscene image and (B)burned it by the Brook Kidron.

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  1. 1 Kings 15:13 A Canaanite goddess

12 So when Samuel rose early in the morning to meet Saul, it was told Samuel, saying, “Saul went to (A)Carmel, and indeed, he set up a monument for himself; and he has gone on around, passed by, and gone down to Gilgal.”

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