26 So they took the one bullock that was given them, and they prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning to noon, saying, O Baal, hear us: but there was no voice, nor any to answer: and they [a]leapt upon the altar that was made.

27 And at noon Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a [b]god: either he talketh or pursueth his enemies, or is in his journey, or it may be that he sleepeth, and must be [c]awaked.

28 And they cried loud, and cut themselves as their manner was, with knives and lancers, till the blood gushed out upon them.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 18:26 As men ravished with some strange spirit.
  2. 1 Kings 18:27 You esteem him as God.
  3. 1 Kings 18:27 He mocketh their beastly madness, which think that by any instance or suit, the dead and vile idols can help their worshippers in their necessity.

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