Matthew Poole Commentary - 1 Kings 18:21 - 18:21

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Matthew Poole Commentary - 1 Kings 18:21 - 18:21


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How long halt ye between two opinions? why do you not make straight paths with your feet? as the phrase is, Heb_12:13; why do you walk so lamely and unevenly, being so unsteady in your opinions and practices, and doubting whether it is better to worship God or Baal?



If the Lord be God; whom you pretend to worship in the calves, 2Ki_10:16,31: compare Exo_32:4.



Follow him; worship him, and him only, and that in such place and manner as he hath commanded you, and not by the calves.



But if Baal; if Baal can prove himself to be the true God.



The people answered him not a word, being convinced of the reasonableness of his proposition; taught by experience that Jehovah had sent this judgment, and that Baal could not remove it, which had staggered them in their opinion about Baal; yet not daring to disown Baal, for fear of the displeasure of the king, then present.