OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 18:22

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Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left as a prophet of the LORD; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred fifty men.

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Verse 22. I. Hebrew repeats “I,” to make the contrast more striking. Elias alone was present, in this assembly, as the prophet of the Lord. Bible.—He knew that Abdias had preserved 100: but they were concealed.—Men. The other 400 of Jezabel did not appear.

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