They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, nor any who answered. They leaped about the altar which was made. At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he has gone aside, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.” They cried aloud, and cut themselves in […]
⛓ Read 1 Kings 18 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The crowd cries Great is Artemis of the Ephesians with one voice for about two hours; the prophets of Baal call on their god from morning until noon, O Baal hear us, raving in vain while no one answers. The prolonged, frenzied, futile invocation of a powerless deity is a striking figural parallel exposing the impotence of the idol (Volume: shared marathon-cry of pagan devotees; Coherence: high). Satisfaction: Luke's reader hears the Carmel irony behind the Ephesian shouting.
Medium confidenceThe prophets of Baal cried aloud 'from morning until noon' with no answer — a possible backdrop for the Gentiles' 'much speaking' (v.7) imagining they are heard for many words.
Low confidence