Elijah set up the contest at Mt. Carmel so that the gods could hear them better. The prophets of Baal had to ignite a bull with the fire of the heavens, and after many attempts of crying out to Baal and slitting their wrists for blood, there was no sign of their god. Elijah, on the other hand, poured water three times on wood that mutilated bull sat on and called out to Yahweh, and almost immediately, God set fire to the bull. The people got on their knees and recognized Yahweh as the true God, and afterwards Yahweh sent in the rain to wash over Israel, and for the killing of the Baal prophets. “As in the conquest tradition, violence is approved by Deuteronomistic Historians when used against those who compromise the devotion of Israel to Yahweh” (Burnette-Bletsch, 1970, p.
Elijah set up the contest at Mt. Carmel so that the gods could hear them better. The prophets of Baal had to ignite a bull with the fire of the heavens, and after many attempts of crying out to Baal and slitting their wrists for blood, there was no sign of their god. Elijah, on the other hand, poured water three times on wood that mutilated bull sat on and called out to Yahweh, and almost immediately, God set fire to the bull. The people got on their knees and recognized Yahweh as the true God, and afterwards Yahweh sent in the rain to wash over Israel, and for the killing of the Baal prophets. “As in the conquest tradition, violence is approved by Deuteronomistic Historians when used against those who compromise the devotion of Israel to Yahweh” (Burnette-Bletsch, 1970, p.