Elijah mocked them. —The mockery of Elijah—apparently even blunter and more scornful in the original sense—has been explained with…

For he meant this day to prove that God was God of the twelve tribes — not of himself and his tribe, but of all the families of Israel.

And it came to pa at noon
When they had been from the time of the morning sacrifice until now invoking their deity t…

Many of the people wavered in their judgment and varied in their practice. Elijah called upon them to determine whether Jehovah or Baal was the sel…