1 Kings 18:20 KJV — MannaFest

1 Kings 18:20

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

And Ahab sendeth among all the sons of Israel, and gathereth the prophets unto the mount of Carmel;

DBT

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

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1 Kings — From Solomon's glory to the divided kingdom — then Elijah's confrontation with Ahab and Jezebel dominating the second half. The promise of the Davidic covenant unfolding through temple glory, then beginning to unravel as idolatry and political fragmentation take hold.

Author: Compiler anonymous; Jewish tradition attributes to Jeremiah (Bava Batra 15a). The book draws on court annals and prophetic records cited by name.
Date: Events c. 970–852 BC; compilation during the late Judahite monarchy or exile

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Joshua 19:26
And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihor–libnath;
1 Kings 22:9
Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah.
1 Kings 19:10
And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

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God's cause is so incontestably just that it needs not fear to have the evidences of its equity searched into and weighed. Elijah reproved the people for mixing the worship of God and the worship of Baal together. Not only some Israelites worshipped God and others Baal, but the same Israelites sometimes worshipped one and sometimes the other.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

His interview with all Israel upon Mount Carmel, in order to a public trial of titles between the Lord and Baal; a most distinguished solemnity it was, in which, 1.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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