1And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread? …
But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)One would have expected, after such a public and sensible manifestation of the glory of God and such a clear decision of the controversy depending between him and Baal, to the honour of Elijah, the confusion of Baal’s prophets, and the universal satisfaction of the people—after they had seen both fire and water come from heaven at the prayer of Elijah, and both in mercy to them, the one as it sign…
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