The Scripture history of idolatry, showing the connexion between the traditions of pagan mythology and the Bible .. . e wood and the bullockhaving been adjusted, he bids them fill four bar-rels with water, and pour it on the sacrifice andon the wood. This is repeated again and again,until the altar is drenched, and the trench is fullof water. By this means he proves that he doesnot intend to deceive them by any fire which mighthave been secretly prepared under the altar, And it came to pass at the time of the offeringof the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophetcame near, and said, Lord Go
The Scripture history of idolatry, showing the connexion between the traditions of pagan mythology and the Bible .. . e wood and the bullockhaving been adjusted, he bids them fill four bar-rels with water, and pour it on the sacrifice andon the wood. This is repeated again and again,until the altar is drenched, and the trench is fullof water. By this means he proves that he doesnot intend to deceive them by any fire which mighthave been secretly prepared under the altar, And it came to pass at the time of the offeringof the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophetcame near, and said, Lord God of Abraham,Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day thatthou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant,and that I have done all these things at thy me, O Lord, hear me; that this people mayknow that thou art the Lord God, and that thouhast turned their heart back again. Then thefire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burntsacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and thedust, and licked up the water that wTas in thetrench. And when all the people saw it, they 124 IDOL-GODS OF THE PRIESTS OF BAAL. fell on their faces ; and they said, the Lord, he isthe God ; the Lord, he is the God ! And Elijahsaid unto them, take the prophets of Baal; let notone of them escape. And they took them ; andElijah brought them down to the brook Kishon,and slew them there. (1 Kings, xviii.) The priests of Baal and of other idols were IDOL-GODS OF THE PHOENICIANS. 125 called Camarim, (corresponding to the Blackfriars of the Papists.) because, instead of beingarrayed in white, like the priests of the Lord,they were clothed in black. They had a houseappropriated to the keeping of their vestments.(2 Kings, x. 22.) I will also stretch out minehand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants ofJerusalem ; and I will cut off the remnant of Baalfrom this place, and the name of the Cliemarimswith the priests. (Zeph. i. 4; Coll. Hos. x. 5;2 Kings, xxiii. 5.) The name of Baal was a
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