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 thereby to move their god to help them. And this indeed was the practice of divers Heathens in the worship of their false gods.
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1 Kings 18:28
28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the bloode gushed out upon them.