1 Kings 18:30–38

³⁰Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the people came near to him. And ^ahe repaired the altar of the Lord which had been torn down.

³¹Elijah took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “^aIsrael shall be your name.”

³²So with the stones he built an altar in ^athe name of the Lord, and he made a trench around the altar, large enough to hold two ¹measures of seed.

^33aThen he arranged the wood and cut the ox in pieces and laid it on the wood.

³⁴And he said, “Fill four pitchers with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.” And he said, “Do it a second time,” and they did it a second time. And he said, “Do it a third time,” and they did it a third time.

³⁵The water flowed around the altar and he also filled the trench with water.

Elijah’s Prayer

^36aAt the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “^bO Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, today let it be known that ^cYou are God in Israel and that I am Your servant and ^dI have done all these things at Your word.

³⁷“Answer me, O Lord, answer me, that this people may know that You, O Lord, are God, and that You have turned their heart back again.”

³⁸Then the ^afire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.