1 Kings 18:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Let them therefore give us two bullocks He proposes to decide the controversy, not by God's word, because that was either despised and rejected, or grossly neglected, and therefore unknown and of no authority with the king or people; but by a miracle, to the evidence of which all that had common sense must needs submit.

1 Kings 18:23

23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: