SIL Translator’s Notes on 1 Kings 18:25

18:25a Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal,

Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal,
-or-
So Elijah told Baal’s prophets

18:25b “Since you are so numerous, choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first.

“There are so many of you! You (plur) can/will go/try first. Choose a bull and prepare it.
-or-
that, because they were so many/numerous, they should be the first to choose a bull and prepare it.

18:25c Then call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire.”

Then call/cry (plur) out to your (plur) god by name. Do not start (plur) the/a fire yourselves.”
-or-
They should not set ⌊the wood⌋ on fire but ⌊instead⌋ pray to their god ⌊to send fire⌋.

© 2020 by SIL International®
Made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License (CC BY-SA) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0.
All Scripture quotations in this publication, unless otherwise indicated, are from The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible.
BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee.

Subscribe
Notify of
guest
0 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments