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1 Kings 18:40

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Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!”
They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.

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1 Kings 18:40 in other translations

And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.

1 Kings 18:40 · American Standard Version

1 Kings 18:40 in context

  1. 38Then Yahweh’s fire fell, and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
  2. 39When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!”
  3. 40Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!”
    They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.
  4. 41Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”
  5. 42So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.