ONLY THE ETERNAL IS GOD!!!

¹⁹ Now therefore, command all Israel to gather to me on Mount Carmel; and the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at the table of Jezebel.

²⁰ Then Ahab called together all the children of Israel; and he gathered the prophets together on Mount Carmel.

²¹ Then Elijah approached all the people, and said: How long will you limp between two thoughts? If the Lord is God, follow him, and if Baal, follow him. But the people did not respond to him.

²² Then Elijah said to the people: I alone am left as a prophet of the Lord, and the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men.

²³ So give us two calves, and let them choose one of the calves for themselves, and divide it into pieces, and put it on the wood, but do not set fire to it, and I will prepare the other calf, and put it on the wood, and I will not set it on fire.

²⁴ Then call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the Lord; and it will be that the god who responds through fire will be God. And all the people answered, saying, This saying is good.

²⁵ And Elijah said to the prophets of Baal: Choose for yourselves one of the calves, and prepare it first, for there are many of you, and call on the name of your god, and do not set it on fire.

²⁶ And they took the calf that he had given them, and prepared it; and they called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, Ah! Baal, answer us! But there was neither a voice nor anyone to answer; and they jumped on the altar that they had made.

²⁷ And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry with a loud voice, for he is a god; It may be that he is talking, or that he has something to do, or that he intends to travel; perhaps he is sleeping, and will wake up.

²⁸ And they cried out with loud voices, and cut themselves with knives and lancets, as was their custom, until they shed blood on themselves.

²⁹ And it came to pass, after noon, that they prophesied, until the time for offering the evening sacrifice; but there was no voice, no answer, no attention whatsoever.

³⁰ Then Elijah said to all the people: Come near to me. And all the people came to him; and he restored the altar of the Lord, which was broken.

³¹ And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be your name.

³² And with those stones he built the altar in the name of the Lord; Then he made a trench around the altar, the width of two measures of seed.

³³ Then he assembled the wood, and divided the calf into pieces, and laid it on the wood.

³⁴ And he said, Fill four pitchers with water, and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood. And he said, Do it the second time; and they did it a second time. And he said, Do it the third time; and they did it the third time;

³⁵ So that the water ran around the altar; and even the ditch he filled with water.

³⁶ It came to pass, when the evening sacrifice was being offered, that the prophet Elijah came and said: O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things according to your word.

³⁷ Answer me, Lord, answer me, so that these people may know that you are the Lord God, and that you have turned their hearts.

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

³⁹ When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces, and said, Only the Lord is God! Only the Lord is God!

⁴⁰ And Elijah said to them: Lay hands on the prophets of Baal, lest any of them escape. And they laid hold of them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and there he killed them.

1 Kings 18:19-40