Perhaps the best known Bible story that refers to Baal is in the 18th chapter of I Kings, where the prophet Elijah publicly challenges the priests of Baal to a contest. Both the prophet and the ...

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Elijah remonstrates with Ahab, corrupt ruler of the Israelites; predicts drought and famine as punishment thereby incurring vehement anger from the adherents of their pagan deity Baal; living as a ...