37. Answer me, Lord! Answer me, that this people may know that you, Lord, are God and that you have turned their hearts back to you.”
38. The Lord’s fire came down and devoured the burnt offering, wood, stones, and dust, and lapped up the water in the trench.
39. Seeing this, all the people fell prostrate and said, “The Lord is God! The Lord is God!”
40. Then Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal. Let none of them escape!” They seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Wadi Kishon and there he slaughtered them.
41. Elijah then said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.”