1 Kings 18:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the bloode gushed out upon them. ”

• 1 Kings 18:28 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Elijah’s scorn roused the Baal-priests to greater exertions. At length, when the frenzy had reached its height, knives were drawn, and the blood spirted forth from hundreds of self-inflicted wounds...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Elijah's Meeting with Ahab and his Contest with the Priests of Baal. The history of Ahab's reign must have been something like the following: On his marriage with Jezebel he must have allowed the w...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  lancets . lances. Done by Dervishes to the present day.

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. They cried aloud - The poor fools acted as they were bidden. And cut themsel...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Cut themselves after their manner, &c.— A strange method, one would think, to obtain the favour of their gods! And yet, if we look into antiquity, we shall find, that nothing was more common in...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. Cut themselves ... with knives and lancets - (see Grotius.) [The scen...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Jehovah or Baal? 1. In the third year] in Luke 4:2-5 ; James 5:17 the duration of the famine is given as 3 years and 6 months.

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Lancets — should be lances. This self-mutilation, common in Oriental frenzy, was possibly a portion, or a survival, of human sacrifice, in the notion that self-torture and shedding of human blood...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  ELIJAH ON MOUNT CARMEL 1 Kings 18:20-40 "O for a sculptor's hand, That thou might'st take thy stand, Thy wild hair floating in the eastern breeze!" - KEBLE IT never occurred to Ahab to refuse...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the God That Answereth not 1 Kings 18:16-29 “The God that answereth by fire, let Him be God.” We are thrilled as we read these words. Our altars stand unkindled, our sacrifices are unconsumed,...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In this chapter we have perhaps one of the most familiar stories of the Old Testament. There are, however, certain points of interest especially to be noted. The first is Ahab's connection with Obadi...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (25) And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under. (26) And they too...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And they cried aloud ,.... Trying to make him hear, if possible: and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them ; so the priests of Heathen deit...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. Ver. 28. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves. ] To their vocis inten...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  They cried aloud They were so far from being convinced and put to shame by the just reproach which Elijah cast upon them, that it made them the more earnest and violent in their proceedings, and in...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  ELIJAH'S RETURN TO FACE AHAB (vs.1-20) The famine lasted three and a half years ( James 5:17 ), the same length of time the Great Tribulation will last. But the rain would not be sent until Elij...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Elijah's Trial of the False Prophets; the Destruction of Baal's Prophets. B. C. 906.       2...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  They cried aloud; as if Elijah had spoken the truth, and their god needed rousing. Cut themselves; mingling their own blood with their sacrifices; as knowing by experience, that nothing was more...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Contest On Mount Carmel: YHWH Versus Baal ( 1 Kings 18:21-40 ). In this vivid description of the contest on Mount Carmel Ahab is deliberately not mentioned. This was because it was not a conte...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 1 Kings 18:19 . Prophets of Baal, &c.—Soothsayers and oracle príests. Groves —Asherah. Baal and Astarte were the male and female divinities. Jezebel was th...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Kings 18:1 . After many days. About the end of the third year, leaving six months more for the crops to be sown and ripened, which harmonizes the new testament with the old. Luke 4:25 ; James...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto Mount Carmel. The priests of Baal Mendelssohn has wrought the harmonies and discords of this scene into a grand oratorio, and the painter or...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION ELIJAH 'S RETURN AND THE ORDEAL OF MOUNT CARMEL .—The preceding chapter having been exclusively occupied with the fortunes of Elijah during his enforced absence of three...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Elijah Slays the Prophets of Baal

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 14:1 ; Leviticus 19:28 ; Micah 6:7 ; Mark 5:5 ; Mark 9:22

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Elijah at Mount Carmel 1 Kings 18:1-39 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are three things which we wish to consider: 1. Judgment and justice. The opening verse of chapter 18 says, "And it came to pa...

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• 1 Kings 18:28 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Cut themselves — Mingling their own blood with their sacrifices; as knowing by experience, that nothing was more acceptable to their Baal (who was indeed the devil) than human blood; and hoping the...

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