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3381 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 310.23 (Matthew Henry)
… , O Baal! hear us, O Baal! answer us; as it is in the margin: and this for some hours together, longer than Diana’s worshippers made their cry, Great is Diana of the Ephesians …
3382 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 310.24 (Matthew Henry)
… way. Baal’s prophets were so far from being convinced and put to shame by the just reproach Elijah cast upon them that it made them the more violent and led …
3383 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 310.25 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal, or rather encouraged those that were praying to proceed, telling them that Baal would answer them at last; but there was no answer, nor any that regarded …
3384 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 310.27 (Matthew Henry)
… Baal. He repaired this altar with twelve stones, according to the number of the twelve tribes, 1 Kings 18:31. Though ten of the tribes had revolted to Baal, he …
3385 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 310.30 (Matthew Henry)
… that Baal’s prophets were in, 1 Kings 18:36, 18:37. Though he was not at the place appointed, he chose the appointed time of the offering of the evening sacrifice …
3386 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 310.31 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal, and how they fled from it as far and as fast as they could, saying, Lest it consume us also, alluding to Numbers 16:34 .
3387 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 310.32 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal, as criminals, are seized, condemned, and executed, according to law, 1 Kings 18:40. If Jehovah be the true God, Baal is a false God, to whom these Israelites …
3388 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 310.33 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal’s prophets, that they might not seduce them any more, though this was far short of a thorough reformation, yet it was so far accepted that God thereupon …
3389 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 311.2 (Matthew Henry)
… and Baal, to the honour of Elijah, the confusion of Baal’s prophets, and the universal satisfaction of the people—after they had seen both fire and water come …
3390 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 311.7 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal, wilfully demolished them. This alludes to the private altars which the prophets of the Lord had, and which good people attended, who could not go up …
3391 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 311.11 (Matthew Henry)
… to Baal. Note, 1. In times of the greatest degeneracy and apostasy God has always had, and will have, a remnant faithful to him, some that keep their integrity and …
3392 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 312.5 (Matthew Henry)
… for Baal, Hosea 2:8. Justly therefore is it taken from him; such an alienating amounts to a forfeiture. (2.) If he had not by sin wronged his own conscience, and set …
3393 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 312.14 (Matthew Henry)
… to Baal ( 1 Kings 19:18 ), though, it is likely, not the same men.
3394 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 313.2 (Matthew Henry)
… to Baal, for which, it may be, Ahab owed him a grudge. 3. Ahab’s great discontent and uneasiness hereupon. He was as before ( 1 Kings 20:43 ) heavy and displeased ( 1 Kings …
3395 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 314.21 (Matthew Henry)
… slighted, Baal’s altars, Naboth’s vineyard, Micaiah’s imprisonment. Now he sees himself flattered into his own ruin, and Zedekiah’s horns of iron pushing …
3396 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 314.25 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal likewise; though he had heard of the ruin of Jeroboam’s family, and had seen his own father drawn into destruction by the prophets of Baal, who had often …
3397 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 315.5 (Matthew Henry)
… religion. Baal-zebub, which signifies the lord of a fly, was one of their Baals that perhaps gave his answers either by the power of the demons or the craft of …
3398 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 315.7 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, a despicable town of the Philistines ( Zechariah 9:7 ), long since vanquished by Israel? Here, (1.) The sin was bad enough, giving that …
3399 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 317.3 (Matthew Henry)
… worshipping Baal, and wisely took warning by God’s judgments on them, and put away the image of Baal, resolving to worship the God of Israel only, and consult …
3400 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 317.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal, Baal’s prophets were still dear to him, and perhaps some of the were now in his camp. “Go,” said he, “ go to them. Get you to the gods whom you have served, Judges …