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Join me live this evening for our next Text Reading, the only one we will do this time through the Bible, from the book of 1 Kings 18:21-22, according to the Hebrew (H) and Greek (G) texts:

(H) 18:21 Then Elijah began to approach all the people and he began to say, “For how long will you people continue to act lame over two different opinions? If Jaho(h)-ah is really God, then you must go forward and follow after him. If Ba'al is really God, then go and follow after him.” But the people did not answer Elijah, not even with a single word.
(G) 18:21 Then Elijah came near to all the people and he said to them, "For how long will you act lame in both hamstrings? If Lord [Jaho(h)-ah] is God, you must go and follow after him. But if Ba'al is God [lit., '(is) he'] then you must go and follow after him." But the people did not answer Elijah, not even with a single word.

(H) 18:22 So Elijah began to say to the people, "I alone remain as a prophet [or, 'a representative'] belonging to Jaho(h)-ah, while the prophets of Ba'al number four hundred and fifty men."
(G) 18:22 Then Elijah said to the people, "I have been left completely alone as a prophet of Lord [Jaho(h)-ah], but the prophets of Ba'al number four hundred and fifty men, and the prophets of the groves number four hundred.”

[Note on (G) 18:22, "the prophets of the groves": This is likely a reference to the prophets of Asherah (the consort of Ba'al), a mother-earth goddess symbolized by a "tree pole" (which is, in fact, the meaning of "Asherah"), who is similar to the goddess worshiped by many today.]

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