14 Go to the gods whom you have chosen and call for help.+ Let them save you in your time of distress.”+

26 So they took the young bull that was given to them, prepared it, and kept calling on the name of Baʹal from morning until noon, saying: “O Baʹal, answer us!” But there was no voice and no one answering.+ They kept limping around the altar that they had made.

4 Now concerning the eating of food offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing+ in the world and that there is no God but one.+