³⁰Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come here to me.” They came to him, and he repaired the altar^d of the Lord, which had been torn down. ³¹Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Your name shall be Israel.”^e ³²With the stones he built an altar in the name^f of the Lord, and he dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs^a of seed. ³³He arranged^g the wood, cut the bull into pieces and laid it on the wood. Then he said to them, “Fill four large jars with water and pour it on the offering and on the wood.”

³⁴“Do it again,” he said, and they did it again.

“Do it a third time,” he ordered, and they did it the third time. ³⁵The water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench.

³⁶At the time^h of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: “Lord, the God of Abraham,ⁱ Isaac and Israel, let it be known^j today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command.^k ³⁷Answer me, Lord, answer me, so these people will know^l that you, Lord, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again.”

³⁸Then the fire^m of the Lord fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.

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Footnotes

aThat is, probably about 24 pounds or about 11 kilograms

Cross references

d 1 Ki 19:10
eSee Ge 17:5; 2 Ki 17:34
fSee Dt 18:7; Col 3:17
gSee Ge 22:9
hSee Ex 29:39, 41
iSee Ge 24:12; See Ex 4:5; Mt 22:32
jSee Jos 4:24; See 1 Sa 17:46; See Ps 46:10
k Nu 16:28
lSee Jos 4:24
mver 24; See Ex 19:18; See Lev 9:24; 2 Ki 1:10; 1 Ch 21:26; 2 Ch 7:1; Job 1:16