1 Raja-raja 18:26

18:26 So they took a bull, as he had suggested, ¹  and prepared it. They invoked the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “Baal, answer us.” But there was no sound and no answer. They jumped ²  around on the altar they had made. ³ 

1 Raja-raja 18:1

Elijah Meets the King’s Servant

18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, ⁴  “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”

1 Korintus 12:2

12:2 You know that when you were pagans you were often led astray by speechless idols, however you were led.

[18:26]  ¹ tn Heb “and they took the bull which he allowed them.”

[18:26]  ² tn Heb “limped” (the same verb is used in v. 21).

[18:26]  ³ tc The MT has “which he made,” but some medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions have the plural form of the verb.

[18:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “the word of the Lord came to Elijah.”