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Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table. (19) Carmel. —The word signifies a “garden” or “park” (see Isaiah 29:17; Isaiah 32:15-16, &c.) and, when used for the proper name of the mountain ...
4. (17-19) Elijah and Ahab trade accusations. Then it happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, “Is that you, O troubler of Israel?” And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house have, in that you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD and have followed the Baals.
3 Νοε 2019 · Elijah’s actions connect the scene at Mount Carmel with the God who delivered the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, and established with them a covenant through which they could live with one another as “a royal priesthood and a holy nation” (Exodus 19:6).
1 Kings 18:19. "Now then, send orders and gather to me all Israel at Mount Carmel, together with 450 prophets of Baal and four hundred prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table."
The managers of Baal's cause were 450 men, fat and well fed (v. 22), besides 400 more, their supporters or seconds, v. 19. The manager of God's cause was but one man, lately a poor exile, hardly kept from starving; so that God's cause has nothing to support it but its own right.
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Ahab tried to serve both Baal and Yahweh. His dual allegiances made him spiritually blind to his sins. From Ahab’s mistake, God warns that dual allegiances can make evil hard to see in yourself and in society. Fourth, Elijah proposed a test for the people to decide whether to follow Yahweh and Baal.
