1 Reyes 18:40

40 Y les dijo Elías: Prended a los profetas de Baal, que no escape ninguno. Y ellos los prendieron; y los llevó Elías al arroyo de Cisón, y allí los mató

1 Reyes 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 Reyes 18:40 In-Context

38 Entonces cayó fuego del SEÑOR, el cual consumió el holocausto, la leña, las piedras, el polvo, y aun lamió las aguas que estaban en la zanja

39 Y viéndolo, todo el pueblo, cayeron sobre sus rostros, y dijeron: ¡El SEÑOR es el Dios! ¡El SEÑOR es el Dios

40 Y les dijo Elías: Prended a los profetas de Baal, que no escape ninguno. Y ellos los prendieron; y los llevó Elías al arroyo de Cisón, y allí los mató

41 Entonces Elías dijo a Acab: Sube, come y bebe; porque una gran lluvia suena

42 Y Acab subió a comer y a beber. Y Elías subió a la cumbre del Carmelo; y postrándose en tierra, puso su rostro entre las rodillas