19 Now therefore send and gather all Israel to me at Mount (A)Carmel, and the (B)450 prophets of Baal and (C)the 400 prophets of Asherah, (D)who eat at Jezebel's table.”

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26 Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. On the west it touches (A)Carmel and Shihor-libnath,

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33 And Ahab made an (A)Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger (B)than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

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

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20 And the beast was captured, and with it (A)the false prophet (B)who in its presence[a] had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who (C)worshiped its image. These two were (D)thrown alive into the lake of (E)fire that burns with sulfur.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 19:20 Or on its behalf

20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman (A)Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants (B)to practice sexual immorality and (C)to eat food sacrificed to idols.

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False Prophets and Teachers

But (A)false prophets also arose among the people, (B)just as there will be false teachers among you, who will (C)secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master (D)who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

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If they hide themselves on (A)the top of Carmel,
    from there I will search them out and take them;
(B)and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
    there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.

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Judgment on Israel's Neighbors

And he said:

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

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18 (A)“As I live, declares the King,
    (B)whose name is the Lord of hosts,
like (C)Tabor among the mountains
    and like (D)Carmel by the sea, shall one come.

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Nevertheless, they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, (A)which he made Israel to sin, but walked[a] in them; and (B)the Asherah also remained in Samaria.)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 13:6 Septuagint, Syriac, Targum, Vulgate; Hebrew he walked

22 And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as (A)the whorings and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?”

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Then the king of Israel (A)gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?” And they said, “Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”

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Elijah Flees Jezebel

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

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42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Mount Carmel. (A)And he bowed himself down on the earth and put his face between his knees. 43 And he said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” And he went up and looked and said, “There is nothing.” And he said, “Go again,” seven times.

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22 Then Elijah said to the people, (A)“I, even I only, am left a prophet of the Lord, but Baal's prophets are (B)450 men.

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13 (A)He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and (B)burned it at the brook Kidron.

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12 And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, “Saul came to (A)Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal.”

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