18 And he said: not I have troubled Israel, but thou, and the house of thy father, who have forsaken the commandments of our Lord, & have followed Baalim.📜💬📚

19 Nevertheless send now, and gather unto me all Israel in the mount of Carmel, and the Prophets of Baal four hundred fifty, and the Prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat of Jezabel's table.📜💬📚

20 Achab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered together the Prophets in the mount of Carmel.📜💬📚

21 And Elias coming to all the people, said: How long halt you on two sides? If our Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, follow him. And the people did not answer him a word.📜💬📚

22 And Elias said again to the people: I only remain a Prophet of our Lord: and the Prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men.📜💬📚

23 Let two oxen be given us, and let them choose to themselves one oxe, and cutting it into pieces let them lay it upon wood, but put no fire under: and I will dress the other oxe, and will lay it upon wood, and put no fire under.📜💬📚

24 Invocate ye the names of your gods, & I will invocate the name of my Lord: and the God that shall hear by fire, let the same be God. And all the people answering said, A very good proposition.📜💬📚

25 Elias therefore said to the Prophets of Baal: Choose you one oxe, and make it first, because you are many: and invocate the names of your gods, and put no fire under.📜💬📚

26 Who when they had taken the oxe, which he gave them, they dressed it: and they invocated the name of Baal from morning until midday, saying: Baal hear us. And there was no voice, nor any that answered: and they leaped over the altar, that they had made.📜💬📚

27 And when it was now midday, Elias jested at them, saying: Cry with a louder voice: for he is God, and perhaps he speaketh, or is in his inn, or in the way, or at the least he sleepeth, that he must be waked.📜💬📚

28 They cried therefore with a loud voice, and cut themselves after their rite with knives and lancets, till they were all imbrued with blood.📜💬📚

29 And after the midday was past, and whilst they prophesied, the time was come, when they used to offer sacrifice, neither voice was heard, nor any did answer, nor attend them praying:📜💬📚

30 Elias said to all the people: Come unto me. And the people coming to him, he repaired the altar of our Lord, that was destroyed.📜💬📚

31 And he took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the children of Jacob, to whom the word of our Lord came, saying: Israel shall be thy name.📜💬📚

32 And he built of the stones an altar in the name of our Lord: and he made a water gutter, as it were by two furrows round about the altar,📜💬📚

33 And he laid the wood in order, and divided the oxe in joints, and laid it upon the wood,📜💬📚

34 and said: Fill four buckets with water, and pour upon the holocaust, and upon the wood. And again he said: Do it also the second time. Who having done it the second time, he said: The third time also do the same. And they did so the third time,📜💬📚

35 and the waters ran about the altar, and the trough of the conduit was filled.📜💬📚

Elijah's Prayer

36 And when it was now time that the holocaust should be offered, Elias the Prophet coming said: Lord God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Israel, shew this day that thou art the God of Israel, and I thy servant, and that according to thy commandment I have done all these things.📜💬📚

37 Hear me Lord, hear me that this people may learn, that thou art our Lord God, and thou hast converted their heart again.📜💬📚

38 And the fire of our Lord fell, and devoured the holocaust, and the wood, and the stones, licking also the dust, and the water, that was in the water gutter.📜💬📚

39 Which when all the people had seen, they fell on their face, and said: Our Lord he is God, our Lord he is God.📜💬📚

40 And Elias said to them: Apprehend the Prophets of Baal, and let not one escape of them. Whom when they had taken, Elias brought them to the Torrent Cison, and killed them there.📜💬📚

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Elijah's Prayer

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