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15 Then Elijah said, “As the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely present myself to him today.”
16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
17 Then it happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, a“Is that you, O btroubler of Israel?”  
18 And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house have, ain that you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and have followed the Baals.  
19 Now therefore, send and gather all Israel to me on aMount Carmel, the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, band the four hundred prophets of1 Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”  

Elijah’s Mount Carmel Victory

20 So Ahab sent for all the children of Israel, and agathered the prophets together on Mount Carmel.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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1 Kings 18:17-18

Art thou he that troubleth Israel—A violent altercation took place. Ahab thought to awe him into submission, but the prophet boldly and undisguisedly told the king that the national calamity was traceable chiefly to his own and his family's patronage and practice of idolatry. But, while rebuking the sins, Elijah paid all due respect to the high rank of the offender. He urged the king to convene, by virtue of his royal mandate, a public assembly, in whose presence it might be solemnly decided which was the troubler of Israel. The appeal could not well be resisted, and Ahab, from whatever motives, consented to the proposal. God directed and overruled the issue.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Kings 18:17:

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