Mount Carmel
Mountain · Carmel → Mount Carmel, Israel
Elijah called down fire here and faced the prophets of Baal before all Israel.
People
- Elijah
- Ahab
- Jezebel
- Elisha
At a glance
- Range
- Mount Carmel, ridge above the sea
- Role
- High place of Elijah’s contest with Baal
- Peoples
- Israel (border of Asher)
- First mention
- Joshua 19 (border of Asher)
The story
Mount Carmel is a wooded ridge that runs down to the sea near the bay of Haifa, long a byword for beauty and fruitfulness. On its heights stood an old altar of the LORD that had been thrown down in the years of Baal.
Here Elijah gathered all Israel and the prophets of Baal and called down fire from heaven upon the drenched altar, so that the people fell on their faces and cried, the LORD, He is God. Then Elijah prayed until a little cloud rose from the sea and the long drought broke in rain.