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Mount Carmel

Northern coast (near the Jezreel valley) · Old Testament · 25 verses

Mount Carmel is a wooded ridge near the Mediterranean coast at the edge of the Jezreel valley. It rises above the plain in northern Israel. The name appears in Joshua, 1 Samuel, 1 Kings and 8 more in the King James text.

About Mount Carmel

Mount Carmel is a wooded ridge near the Mediterranean coast at the edge of the Jezreel valley. It rises above the plain in northern Israel.

Its place in the story

On Mount Carmel Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal, and fire from the LORD fell on his sacrifice, showing the LORD to be God. The rain that ended the drought came after that great contest.

Mount Carmel in Scripture (KJV)

“The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one;”
Joshua 12:22 (KJV)
“Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,”
Joshua 15:55 (KJV)
“And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath;”
Joshua 19:26 (KJV)
“And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.”
1 Samuel 15:12 (KJV)
“And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.”
1 Samuel 25:2 (KJV)
“And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:”
1 Samuel 25:5 (KJV)
“And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.”
1 Samuel 25:7 (KJV)
“And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.”
1 Samuel 25:40 (KJV)

Mount Carmel is named 25 times in Scripture; 8 shown above.

Where it leads

The showing of the true God on Carmel points to the God fully revealed in Christ, who calls people from idols to the living God.

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Where is Mount Carmel in the Bible?

Mount Carmel is a wooded ridge near the Mediterranean coast at the edge of the Jezreel valley. It rises above the plain in northern Israel. The name appears in Joshua, 1 Samuel, 1 Kings and 8 more in the King James text.

What happened at Mount Carmel?

On Mount Carmel Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal, and fire from the LORD fell on his sacrifice, showing the LORD to be God. The rain that ended the drought came after that great contest.

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