“They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances until the blood gushed out on them.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Kings 18 contains 46 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.