19 Now then, send orders and gather to me all Israel at (A)Mount Carmel, (B)together with 450 prophets of Baal and four hundred prophets of [a](C)the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

God or Baal on Mount Carmel

20 So Ahab sent orders among all the sons of Israel and brought the prophets together at Mount Carmel.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 18:19 I.e., wooden symbol of a female deity

25 So she went on and came to the man of God at (A)Mount Carmel.

When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, that person there is the Shunammite.

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