JETS 22:3 (September 1979) p. 200 he built of them his symbolic altar (18:31). He had four pitchers filled with water three times (vv 33–34)—again the number twelve is prominent. His prayer is Mosaic in tone, evoking Yahweh as God of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Israel (v 36). Surely by all these actions an utter defeat of Baalism had been anticipated. The extermination of the prophets of Baal in mock and grisly sacrifice at the Wadi Kishon (v 40) seemed to be the final stroke. The sevenfold