1 Raja-raja 18:26

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Mereka mengambil lembu yang diberikan kepada mereka, mengolahnya dan memanggil nama Baal dari pagi sampai tengah hari, katanya: "Ya Baal, jawablah kami!" Tetapi tidak ada suara, tidak ada yang menjawab. Sementara itu mereka berjingkat-jingkat di sekeliling mezbah yang dibuat mereka itu.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Mereka mengambil lembu yang diberikan kepada mereka, mengolahnya dan memanggil nama Baal dari pagi sampai tengah hari, katanya: "Ya Baal, jawablah kami!" Tetapi tidak ada suara, tidak ada yang menjawab. Sementara itu mereka berjingkat-jingkat di sekeliling mezbah yang dibuat mereka itu.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka diambil oleh mereka itu akan lembu muda seekor, yang diberikannya kepada mereka itu, lalu disediakannya lembu itu dan berserulah mereka itu kepada nama Baal dari pada pagi sampai kepada tengah hari, katanya: Ya Baal! sahut apalah akan kami! Tetapi bunyi suarapun tiada, sahutpun tiada. Maka berlompat-lompatanlah mereka itu keliling mezbah yang telah diperbuatnya itu.

Contextual Overview

²¹ And Elias came vnto all the people, and said: how long halt ye betweene two opinions? If the Lorde be God, folowe him: but if Baal be he, then go after him. And the people aunswered him not one worde. ²² Then saide Elias vnto the people [againe] I onely remayne a prophete of the Lorde: but Baals prophets are foure hundred and fiftie. ²³ Let them therefore geue vs two oxen, and let them choose the one, & cut hym in peeces, and lay him on wood, and put no fire vnder: and I wyll dresse the other oxe, and laye him on wood, & wyll put no fyre vnder. ²⁴ And call ye on the name of your gods, & I wyl call on the name of the Lorde: and then the God that aunswereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people aunswered and saide, It is wel spoken. ²⁵ And Elias saide vnto the prophets of Baal: Choose you an oxe, & dresse him first, for ye are many: & call on the name of your gods, but put no fire vnder. ²⁶ And they toke the one oxe that he dyd geue them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning to noone, saying, O Baal heare vs. But there was no voyce, nor one to aunswere: And they lept vpon the aulter that they had made. ²⁷ And at noone Elias mocked them, and sayde: Crye lowde, for he is a God, peraduenture he is talking, or occupied in folowing vpon his enemies, or is in his iourney, or happyly he slepeth, and must be awaked [with your crie.] ²⁸ And they cried lowde, and cut them selues as their maner was with kniues & launcers, till the blood folowed on the. ²⁹ And it chaunced, that when midday was passed, they prophesied vntill the time of the euening sacrifice: But there was neither voyce, nor one to aunswere, nor any that regarded them. ³⁰ And Elias said vnto all the folke: Come to me. And all the people came to him: And he repaired the aulter of the Lord that was broken.

Bible Verse Review
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from morning: Matthew 6:7

hear: or, answer

no voice: 1 Kings 18:24, Psalms 115:4-8, Psalms 135:15-20, Isaiah 37:38, Isaiah 44:17, Isaiah 45:20, Jeremiah 10:5, Daniel 5:23, Habakkuk 2:18, 1 Corinthians 8:4, 1 Corinthians 10:19, 1 Corinthians 10:20, 1 Corinthians 12:2

answered: or, heard

leaped upon the altar: or, leaped up and down at the altar, Zephaniah 1:9

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 18:29 - voice 2 Kings 4:31 - hearing 2 Kings 4:33 - prayed 2 Kings 21:3 - he reared 2 Kings 23:4 - Baal Psalms 108:6 - and answer me Isaiah 44:9 - and their Isaiah 46:7 - one shall cry Jeremiah 10:3 - customs Jeremiah 27:18 - they Jeremiah 48:13 - ashamed Jonah 1:5 - cried Habakkuk 2:19 - that Acts 19:28 - and cried Acts 19:34 - all

Cross-References

Isaiah 6:13
Yet in it shall succeede ten kinges, and it shall returne and be afterwarde wasted: [But] as the Teyle tree and the Oke in the fall of their leaues haue yet the sappe remayning in them, [euen so] the holy seede shalbe the stay therof.

Isaiah 10:22
For though thy people O Israel be as the sande of the sea, yet shal the remnaunt of them conuert vnto him: The decreed consumption ouerfloweth with righteousnesse.

Isaiah 19:24
In that day shal the nation of Israel be the thirde with Egypt and Assyria: and they shalbe blessed in the middest of the lande,

Isaiah 65:8
Moreouer, thus saith the Lord: Like as when newe wine is founde in the cluster, and one saith, Lose it not, for there is blessing therein: euen so wyll I do also for my seruauntes sakes, that I wyll not destroy them all.

Jeremiah 5:1
Loke through Hierusalem, beholde and see, seeke through her streetes also within, yf ye can fynde one man that doth equall and ryght, or seketh for the trueth, and I shall spare that citie, saith the Lorde.

Ezekiel 22:30
And I sought among them for a man that woulde make vp the hedge, and set hym selfe in the gap before me in the landes behalfe, that I shoulde not destroy it: but I coulde fynde none.

Matthew 24:22
Yea, and except those dayes shoulde be shortened, there shoulde no fleshe be saued: but for the chosens sake, those dayes shalbe shortened.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they took the bullock which was given them,.... By such of them as made the choice:

and they dressed it; slew it, and cut it in pieces, and laid it on the wood, but put no fire under it:

and called on the name of Baal, from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us; and send fire down on the sacrifice; and if the sun was their Baal, they might hope, as the heat he gradually diffused was at its height at noon, that some flashes of fire would proceed from it to consume their sacrifice; but after, their hope was turned into despair, they became and acted like madmen:

but there was no voice, nor any that answered; by word, or by sending down fire as they desired:

and they leapt upon the altar which was made; not by Elijah, but by themselves, either now or heretofore, and where they had formerly sacrificed; and they danced about it, and leaped on it, either according to a custom used by them; such as the Salii, the priests of Mars, used, so called from their leaping, because they did their sacred things leaping, and went about their altars capering and leaping s; or rather they were mad on it, as the Targum renders it, and acted like madmen, as if they were agitated by a prophetic fury and frenzy.

s Servius in Virgil. Aeneid. l. 8. "tum Salii ad cantus", &c. Vid. Gutberleth. de Salii, c. 2. p. 9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon - Compare the parallel in the conduct of the Greeks of Ephesus. Acts 19:34. The words “O Baal, hear us,” probably floated on the air as the refrain of a long and varied hymn of supplication.

They leaped upon the altar which was made - The marginal rendering is preferable to this. Wild dancing has always been a devotional exercise in the East, and remains so to this day; witness the dancing dervishes. It was practiced especially in the worship of Nature-powers, like the Dea Phrygia (Cybele), the Dea Syra (Astarte?), and the like.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 18:26. From morning even until noon — It seems that the priests of Baal employed the whole day in their desperate rites. The time is divided into two periods:

1. From morning until noon; this was employed in preparing and offering the sacrifice, and in earnest supplication for the celestial fire. Still there was no answer, and at noon Elijah began to mock and ridicule them, and this excited them to commence anew. And,

2. They continued from noon till the time of offering the evening sacrifice, dancing up and down, cutting themselves with knives, mingling their own blood with their sacrifice, praying, supplicating, and acting in the most frantic manner.

And they leaped upon the altar — Perhaps it will be more correct to read with the margin, they leaped up and down at the altar; they danced round it with strange and hideous cries and gesticulations, tossing their heads to and fro, with a great variety of bodily contortions.

A heathen priest, a high priest of Budhoo, has been just showing me the manner in which they dance and jump up and down, and from side to side, twisting their bodies in all manner of ways, when making their offerings to their demon gods; a person all the while beating furiously on a tom-tom, or drum, to excite and sustain those frantic attitudes; at the same time imploring the succour of their god, frequently in some such language as this: "O loving brother devil, hear me, and receive my offering!" To perform these sacrificial attitudes they have persons who are taught to practice them from their earliest years, according to directions laid down in religious books; and to make the joints and body pliant, much anointing of the parts and mechanical management are used; and they have masters, whose business it is to teach these attitudes and contortions according to the rules laid down in those books. It seems therefore that this was a very general practice of idolatry, as indeed are the others mentioned in this chapter.