And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done
What miracles he had wrought, how that not only fire came down
from heaven, and consumed the sacrifice, but even the stones and
dust of the altar, and licked up great quantities of water in the
trench around it; and that it was at his prayer that rain came
down from heaven in such abundance, of which she was sensible; by
all which he got the people on his side, so that it was not in
his power to seize him and slay him; and this he said to clear
himself, and make her easy:
and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the
sword;
the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal he had gathered to
Carmel; the Targum calls them false prophets, but Ahab would
scarcely use that epithet to Jezebel; as for the four hundred
prophets of the grove, they were not present, and so not
included. Jezebel knew they were safe, being with her, she not
suffering them to go to Carmel.