1 Reyes 18:40

40 Luego Elías les ordenó:—¡Agarren a los profetas de Baal! ¡Que no escape ninguno!Tan pronto como los agarraron, Elías hizo que los bajaran al arroyo Quisón, y allí los ejecutó.

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 En ese momento cayó el fuego del SEÑOR y quemó el holocausto, la leña, las piedras y el suelo, y hasta lamió el agua de la zanja.

39 Cuando vieron esto, todos se postraron y exclamaron: «¡El SEÑOR es Dios! ¡El SEÑOR es Dios!»

40 Luego Elías les ordenó:—¡Agarren a los profetas de Baal! ¡Que no escape ninguno!Tan pronto como los agarraron, Elías hizo que los bajaran al arroyo Quisón, y allí los ejecutó.

41 Entonces Elías le dijo a Acab:—Anda a tu casa, y come y bebe, porque ya se oye el ruido de un torrentoso aguacero.

42 Acab se fue a comer y beber, pero Elías subió a la cumbre del Carmelo, se inclinó hasta el suelo y puso el rostro entre las rodillas.