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1 Reyes 18:27

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27 Y sucedió que ya al mediodía, Elías se burlaba de ellos y decía: Clamad en voz alta, pues es un dios; tal vez estará meditando o se habrá desviado, o estará de viaje, quizá esté dormido y habrá que despertarlo.

1 Reyes 18:27 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 18:27

And it came to pass at noon
When they had been from the time of the morning sacrifice until now invoking their deity to no purpose:

that Elijah mocked them;
he jeered and bantered them:

and said, cry aloud;
your god does not hear you; perhaps, if you raise your voice higher, he may;

for he is a god;
according to your esteem of him, and, if so, he surely may hear you: unless

either he is talking;
with others about matters of moment and importance, who are waiting on him with their applications to him; or he is in meditation; in a deep study upon some things difficult to be resolved:

or he is pursuing;
his studies, or his pleasures, or his enemies, to overtake them; or he is employed on business F20:

or he is in a journey;
gone to visit his friends, or some parts of his dominions; so Homer F21 represents Jupiter gone to pay a visit to the Ethiopians, and as yesterday gone to a feast, and all the gods following him, from whence he would not return until twelve days; and in like manner Lucian F23 speaks of the gods, mocking at them:

or, peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked;
with a loud crying to him: it being now noon, Abarbinel thinks this refers to a custom of sleeping after dinner; Homer F24 also speaks of the sleep of the gods, and which used to be at noon; and therefore the worshippers of Baal ceased then to call upon him; and it is said F25, the Heathens feared to go into the temples of their gods at noon, lest they should disturb them; but such is not the true God, the God of Israel, he neither slumbers nor sleeps, ( Psalms 121:4 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F20 David de Pomis Lexic. fol. 211. 1.
F21 Iliad. ver. 1. 423.
F23 Jupiter Tragoedus.
F24 Ut supra, (Iliad. ver. 1. 423.) in fine, & Iliad. 2. ver. 1, 2.
F25 Meurs. Auctuar. Philol. c. 6. apud Quistorp. in loc.
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1 Reyes 18:27 In-Context

25 Y Elías dijo a los profetas de Baal: Escoged un novillo para vosotros y preparadlo primero, pues sois los más, e invocad el nombre de vuestro dios, pero no le pongáis fuego.
26 Entonces tomaron el novillo que les dieron y lo prepararon, e invocaron el nombre de Baal desde la mañana hasta el mediodía, diciendo: Oh Baal, respóndenos. Pero no hubo voz ni nadie respondió. Y danzaban alrededor del altar que habían hecho.
27 Y sucedió que ya al mediodía, Elías se burlaba de ellos y decía: Clamad en voz alta, pues es un dios; tal vez estará meditando o se habrá desviado, o estará de viaje, quizá esté dormido y habrá que despertarlo.
28 Y gritaban a grandes voces y se sajaban, segĂşn su costumbre, con espadas y lanzas hasta que la sangre chorreaba sobre ellos.
29 Y sucedió que pasado el mediodía, se pusieron a gritar frenéticamente hasta la hora de ofrecerse el sacrificio de la tarde; pero no hubo voz, ni nadie respondió ni nadie hizo caso.

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