At noon Elijah began to mock them, asserting sarcastically that Baal must be too busy to answer them, that he was relieving himself in the privy, or that he was napping and someone needed to wake him up.
ही बआल उपासना किती थोतांड आहे हे त्याला दिसत होते आणि देवाच्या लोकांनाही दिसावे अशी त्याची इच्छा होती. — १ राजे १८: २६, २७.