1 Kings 18:21

Elijah calls Israel to stop wavering between Yahweh and Baal and to choose decisively. The silent crowd shows their unresolved hearts.

Cross-references · 24

• Matt 6:24No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
• Josh 24:15And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
• 1 Cor 10:21–22Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.
• 2 Cor 6:14–16Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
• 1 Sam 7:3And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
• 2 Kgs 17:41So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
• Rev 3:15–16I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
• Deut 4:35Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
• Zeph 1:5And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
• Ps 100:3Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
• Rom 6:16–22Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
• Josh 24:23–24Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.
• 1 Kgs 18:39And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.
• 2 Chr 33:13And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
• Gen 44:16And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
• Gen 24:50Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
• Exod 5:1–2And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
• 1 Chr 17:26And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
• Matt 22:12And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
• Luke 6:13And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;
• Matt 22:34But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
• Matt 22:36Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
• Rom 3:19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
• Job 40:4–5Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

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