between Yahweh and Baal, but between Yahweh and Baal’s followers. They are the ones who struggle with death, trying futilely to bring life to a ‘god’ who has no existence. As the writer goes to great effort to show, their struggle must meet with failure, not only as regards the lifeless Baal, but also as regards their own lives, since they will be put to death. Of the proponents of Baal active in ch. 18, only Ahab and Jezebel escape with their lives.
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