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Elijah came near to all the people, and said, How long go you limping between the two sides? if Yahweh be God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him. The people answered him not a word.
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The Unanswerable Question
Commentators explain that the people's silence was not from ignorance, but from the conviction of Elijah's unanswerable logic. They wanted to blend the worship of God with the popular worship of Baal, a practice of spiritual compromise. Elijah's direct question, 'How long will you go limping between two different opinions?', exposed the impossibility of serving two masters, leaving them speechless.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The people were mute. They could not deny the logical force of Elijah’s argument, but they were not prepared to act on it at once. They wished to u…
19th Century
Anglican
How long halt ye between two opinions?— In this exclamation is expressed the very motto of Elijah’s life. It is an expres…
Baptist
So undecided were they – perhaps so cowed by the presence of that brave man who feared none, but only feared God.
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Elijah came unto all the people Assembled at Mount Carmel:
and said, how long halt you betwee…
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…
