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Elijah is mentioned four more times in the New Testament: in Luke, Romans, Hebrews, and James. In Luke 4:24–27, Jesus uses Elijah as an example of rejected prophets. Jesus says, "No prophet is accepted in his own country," and then mentions Elijah, saying that there were many widows in Israel, but Elijah was sent to one in Phoenicia.
As a result, Elijah invited Jezebel's prophets of Baal and Asherah to a challenge at Mount Carmel. [22] [27] Adam Clarke believes these prophets were royal chaplains and that the Baalist prophets had more jurisdiction over Samaria during Jezebel's reign than the Asherah prophets, who were always indigenous to Samaria. [28]
The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ, Containing New, Startling, and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which Disclose the Oriental Origin of All the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts, and Miracles of the Christian New Testament, and Furnishing a Key for Unlocking Many of Its Sacred Mysteries, Besides Comprising the History of 16 Heathen Crucified ...
Slaughter of the Prophets of Baal, 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld. Baʿal (בַּעַל) appears about 90 times in the Hebrew Bible in reference to various gods. [17] The priests of the Canaanite Baʿal are mentioned numerous times, most prominently in the First Book of Kings.
One of the more typical themes of the Lives of the Prophets is the interest of the author for the burial places of the prophets. Jeremias [ 19 ] in his study examines both the archaeological and the literary evidence, in particular the Herod architectural activity and the attestations of Matthew 23:29 and Luke 11:47, and considers the Lives as ...
The false prophet of the Book of Revelation (16:13, 19:20, 20:10) The false prophets of Baal (1 Kings 18:13–40) Noadiah (Nehemiah 6:14) Shemaiah the Nehelamite (Jeremiah 29:24) Simon Magus (Acts 8:9–24) Zedekiah, son of Maaseiah (Jeremiah 29:21) Zedekiah, son of Chenaanah (1 Kings 22:24)
1 Kings 18:40 names the Kishon River as the site where the prophets of Baal were executed on Elijah's orders, following Elijah's contest with the prophets of Baal nearby on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:20–39).
The majority of modern biblical scholars believe that the Torah (the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, written in Classical Hebrew) reached its present form in the post-Exilic period (i.e., after c. 520 BCE), based on pre-existing written and oral traditions, as well as contemporary geographical and political realities.