* Will ye plead.
   The words are very emphatic:  "Will ye plead in earnest
   ({tereevoon}) for Baal?  Will ye really save ({tosheeoon})
   him?  If he be God, ({Elohim,}) let him contend for himself,
   seeing his altar is thrown down."

  Ex 23:2  Nu 14:6  Eph 5:11 
 * let him be.
  De 13:5-18  17:2-7  1Ki 18:40 
 * if he be.
  1Ki 18:27,29  Ps 115:4-7  Isa 41:23  46:1,7  Jer 10:5,11  1Co 8:4