1 Re 18:40

40 Ed Elia disse loro: Prendete i profeti di Baal, non iscampine alcuno. Ed essi li presero. Ed Elia li fece scendere al torrente Chison, e quivi li scannò.

1 Re 18:40 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 18:40

And Elijah said unto them, take the prophets of Baal
The four hundred and fifty that were upon the spot; for the number of the people of Israel, now gathered together, were equal to it; nor was it in Ahab's power to hinder it, and he might himself be so far surprised and convicted as not in the least to object to it:

let not one of them escape:
that there might be none of them left to seduce the people any more:

and they took them;
laid hold on them, everyone of them:

and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon;
which ran by the side, and at the bottom of Mount Carmel, into the sea; (See Gill on Judges 4:7) (See Gill on Judges 5:21).

and slew them there;
intimating, that it was owing to the idolatry they led the people into that rain had been withheld, and the brooks were dried up, as this might be; or, as Ben Gersom thinks, that the land might not be defiled with their blood, but be carried down the river after it: these he slew not with his own hand, but by others he gave orders to do it; and this not as a private person, but as an extraordinary minister of God, to execute justice according to his law, ( Deuteronomy 13:1 ) by which law such false prophets were to die; and the rather he was raised up and spirited for this service, as the supreme magistrate was addicted to idolatry himself.

1 Re 18:40 In-Context

38 Allora cadde fuoco del Signore, e consumò l’olocausto, e le legne, e le pietre, e la polvere, e lambì l’acqua che era nel condotto.

39 E tutto il popolo, avendo ciò veduto, cadde sopra la sua faccia, e disse: Il Signore è l’Iddio, il Signore è l’Iddio.

40 Ed Elia disse loro: Prendete i profeti di Baal, non iscampine alcuno. Ed essi li presero. Ed Elia li fece scendere al torrente Chison, e quivi li scannò.

41 Allora Elia disse ad Achab: Sali, mangia, e bevi; perciocchè, ecco il suon d’un romor di pioggia. Ed Achab salì per mangiare e per bere.

42 Ed Elia salì in su la sommità di Carmel; ed inchinatosi a terra, mise la faccia fra le ginocchia;