1 Kings 18:20 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 18:20

So Ahab summoned all the Israelites and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.

KJV

So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel,.... By messengers, requiring their attendance at Mount Carmel at such a time, at least their chief and principal men: and gathered the prophets together unto Mount Carmel; the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, but not the four hundred prophets of the groves; for of them we have no account afterwards, only of the former; it may be they were not at the command of Ahab, only of Jezebel, at whose table they ate, who would not suffer them to go.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Local tradition places the site of Elijah’s sacrifice, not on the highest point of the mountain (1,728 ft.), but at the southeastern extremity (1,600 ft.) of the ridge, where a shapeless ruin, composed of great hewn stones, and standing amid thick bushes of dwarf-oak, in the near vicinity of a perennial spring, is known to the Arabs as “El-Maharrakah,” “the burning,” or “the sacrifice.” All the circumstances of the locality adapt it for the scene of the contest.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח	vai.yish.Lach	and he sent	H7971 →
אַחְאָ֖ב	'ach.'Av	Ahab	H256 →
בְּכָל־	be.khol	among all	H3605 →
בְּנֵ֣י	be.Nei	[the] people of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
וַיִּקְבֹּ֥ץ	vai.yik.Botz	and he gathered	H6908 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַנְּבִיאִ֖ים	ha.ne.vi.'Im	the prophets	H5030 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הַ֥ר	har	[the] mountain of	H2022 →
הַכַּרְמֶֽל׃	ha.kar.Mel	<the> Carmel	H3760 →

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Where the connections lead

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1 Kings 22:9
So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, “Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.”
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 18:8
  So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, “Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.”
- 1 Kings 22:26–27
  And the king of Israel declared, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son,
- Daniel 1:18
  Now at the end of the time specified by the king, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar.
- Isaiah 39:7
  And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
- 2 Kings 9:32
  He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three eunuchs looked down at him.