1 Raja-raja 18:40

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Kata Elia kepada mereka: "Tangkaplah nabi-nabi Baal itu, seorangpun dari mereka tidak boleh luput." Setelah ditangkap, Elia membawa mereka ke sungai Kison dan menyembelih mereka di sana.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Kata Elia kepada mereka: "Tangkaplah nabi-nabi Baal itu, seorangpun dari mereka tidak boleh luput." Setelah ditangkap, Elia membawa mereka ke sungai Kison dan menyembelih mereka di sana.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka kata Elia kepada mereka itu: Tangkaplah olehmu akan segala nabi Baal itu, seorang juapun jangan luput. Maka ditangkapnyalah akan dia, lalu dibawa Elia akan mereka itu sekalian turun ke anak sungai Kison, dibantainya sekaliannya di sana.

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
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Take: or, Apprehend, 2 Kings 10:25

Kishon: Judges 5:21

slew them there: Deuteronomy 13:5, Deuteronomy 18:20, Jeremiah 48:10, Zechariah 13:2, Zechariah 13:3, Revelation 19:20, Revelation 20:10

Reciprocal: Numbers 25:5 - Slay ye Judges 4:7 - Kishon Judges 6:31 - let him be 1 Samuel 15:33 - hewed 2 Samuel 21:14 - God 1 Kings 18:45 - there was 1 Kings 19:1 - how he had slain 2 Kings 10:11 - his priests 2 Kings 10:18 - Ahab served Baal 2 Kings 11:18 - slew Mattan 2 Kings 23:4 - Baal 2 Kings 23:20 - he slew 2 Chronicles 6:27 - send rain 2 Chronicles 15:13 - whosoever 2 Chronicles 23:17 - slew Mattan Psalms 94:16 - rise up Psalms 106:30 - General Isaiah 44:11 - let them all Isaiah 46:7 - one shall cry Jeremiah 2:8 - prophets Jeremiah 23:13 - prophesied Jeremiah 48:13 - ashamed Ezekiel 9:5 - Go

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Elijah said unto them, take the prophets of Baal,.... The four hundred and fifty that were upon the spot; for the number of the people of Israel, now gathered together, were equal to it; nor was it in Ahab's power to hinder it, and he might himself be so far surprised and convicted as not in the least to object to it:

let not one of them escape: that there might be none of them left to seduce the people any more:

and they took them; laid hold on them, everyone of them:

and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon; which ran by the side, and at the bottom of Mount Carmel, into the sea;

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and slew them there; intimating, that it was owing to the idolatry they led the people into that rain had been withheld, and the brooks were dried up, as this might be; or, as Ben Gersom thinks, that the land might not be defiled with their blood, but be carried down the river after it: these he slew not with his own hand, but by others he gave orders to do it; and this not as a private person, but as an extraordinary minister of God, to execute justice according to his law, Deuteronomy 13:1 by which law such false prophets were to die; and the rather he was raised up and spirited for this service, as the supreme magistrate was addicted to idolatry himself.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Elijah required the people to show their conviction by acts - acts which might expose them to the anger of king or queen, but which once committed would cause them to break with Baal and his worshippers forever.

Elijah is said to have slain the “prophets of Baal,” because the people killed them by his orders. Why they were brought down to the torrent-bed of Kishon to be killed, is difficult to explain. Perhaps the object of Elijah was to leave the bodies in a place where they would not be found, since the coming rain would, he knew, send a flood down the Kishon ravine, and bear off the corpses to the sea. Elijah’s act is to be justified by the express command of the Law, that idolatrous Israelites were to be put to death, and by the right of a prophet under the theocracy to step in and execute the Law when the king failed in his duty.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 40. Let not one of them escape. — They had committed the highest crime against the state and the people by introducing idolatry, and bringing down God's judgments upon the land; therefore their lives were forfeited to that law which had ordered every idolater to be slain. It seems also that Ahab, who was present, consented to this act of impartial justice.