Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 18:24
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1 Kings18:24
24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the Name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire , let him be God. And all the people answered and said, it is well spoken.
i. e. That shall consume the Sacrifice by Fire sent from Heaven; which the People knew the True God used to do, as Genesis 4. 4. Iudges 6. 21. and 13. 20.
Even the Baalites themselves; partly, because they could not without great reproach to themselves and Baal, refuse so equal a motion; and partly, because they were confident of Baal's power and divinity, having probably had some experiments of supernatural and prodigious Events done in the worship of Baal by Gods Just and Wife permission, for the hardening of that Apostatical and wicked People in their Idolatry; as God hath in several Ages for the like reason suffered lying wonders to be wrought by the Devil whom they worshipped in and by their Idols.
Marginal references: Or, God.; Heb. The word is good.
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