1 Kings 18:39 (DRB)

Passage

And when all the people saw this, they fell on their faces, and they said: The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.

Nearby Context

1 Kings 18:37 Dear me, O Lord, hear me: that this people may learn that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart again.

1 Kings 18:38 Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the holocaust, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

1 Kings 18:39 And when all the people saw this, they fell on their faces, and they said: The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.

1 Kings 18:40 And Elias said to them: Take the prophets of Baal, and let not one of them escape. And when they had taken them, Elias brought them down to the torrent Cison, and killed them there.

1 Kings 18:41 And Elias said to Achab: Go up, eat and drink: for there is a sound of abundance of rain.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "people", "fell", "faces", "said", and "lord". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "people" and "fell", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 38's "Then the fire of the Lord fell..." into verse 40's "And Elias said to them Take the...", so "people" and "fell" belong inside that flow. In 1 Kings context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "people" and "fell" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.