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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Kings 18:19 - 18:19
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gather ... the prophets of Baal ... the prophets of the groves - From the sequel it appears that the former only came. The latter, anticipating some evil, evaded the king’s command.
which eat at Jezebel’s table - that is, not at the royal table where she herself dined, but they were maintained from her kitchen establishment (see on 1Sa 20:25 and see on 1Ki 4:22). They were the priests of Astarte, the Zidonian goddess.