Elijah’s scorn roused the priests of Baal to greater exertions. Finally, when the frenzy reached its height, they drew knives, and blood gushed for…

Lancets —should be lances. This self-mutilation, common in Eastern frenzy, was possibly a portion, or a survival, of huma…

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 they cried aloud Trying to make him hear, if possible: and cut themselves after their manner with knives …

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…