1 Kings 18:28

World English Bible (2000)

They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 19:28 : 28 "'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.
  • Deut 14:1 : 1 You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
  • Mark 5:5 : 5 Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
  • Mark 9:22 : 22 Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us."
  • Mic 6:7 : 7 Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

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    84%

    29It was so, when midday was past, that they prophesied until the time of the offering of the offering; but there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any who regarded.

    30Elijah said to all the people, "Come near to me;" and all the people came near to him. He repaired the altar of Yahweh that was thrown down.

  • 1 Kgs 18:23-27
    5 verses
    81%

    23Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it.

    24You call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of Yahweh. The God who answers by fire, let him be God." All the people answered, "It is well said."

    25Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it."

    26They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any who answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.

    27It happened at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, "Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he has gone aside, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened."

  • 1 Kgs 18:38-40
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    73%

    38Then the fire of Yahweh fell, and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

    39When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, "Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!"

    40Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal! Don't let one of them escape!" They seized them. Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.

  • Jer 41:5
    70%

    5that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Yahweh.

  • 1 Kgs 18:32-36
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    70%

    32With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two measures of seed.

    33He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, "Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood."

    34He said, "Do it a second time;" and they did it the second time. He said, "Do it a third time;" and they did it the third time.

    35The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.

    36It happened at the time of the offering of the offering, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, "Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
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    17They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

  • Hos 11:2
    68%

    2They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.

  • 2 Chr 29:22
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    22So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: and they killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar: they killed also the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar.

  • 2 Chr 35:11
    68%

    11They killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood which they received] of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.

  • Ezek 23:39
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    39For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.

  • Heb 11:37
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    37They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

  • Jer 18:21
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    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.

  • Ps 18:41
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    41They cried, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.

  • 1 Kgs 19:1
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    1Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

  • 1 Kgs 18:21
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    21Elijah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." The people answered him not a word.

  • 1 Sam 14:32
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    32and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

  • Isa 22:12
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    12In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:

  • 2 Kgs 10:25
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    25It happened, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, "Go in, and kill them! Let none escape." They struck them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.

  • Rom 11:3
    67%

    3"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."

  • 2 Sam 1:12
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    12They mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

  • Ezek 27:30
    67%

    30and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

  • Isa 57:5
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    5you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

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    3Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

  • Ps 106:37-38
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    37Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

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  • Jer 9:18
    67%

    18and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

  • 1 Kgs 21:27-28
    2 verses
    67%

    27It happened, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

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  • Mark 5:5
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    5Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.

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  • 1 Kgs 19:21
    66%

    21He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him.