 They're watching the battle take place. They're sitting right around the ring. They want to see what's going on. And let me explain it to you because when you read the text in verse 20 of the same passage in 1 Kings 18, verse 20, and Ahab said to all the people of Israel that gathered the prophets together at Mount Carmel, and the Bible says, verse 21, that Elijah came near to all the people and said, how long will you go limping between two opinions?