32With the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord , and he dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs of seed.


In Context

29 Midday passed, and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention.

30 Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come here to me." They came to him, and he repaired the altar of the Lord , which was in ruins.

31 Elijah 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."

32 With the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord , and he dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs of seed.

33 He arranged 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.

1st Kings 18:32 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:32And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:32And he built with the stones an altar to the name of the Lord: and he made a trench for water, of the breadth of two furrows round about the altar.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:32And with the stones he built an altar in the name of Jehovah; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:32and with the stones he built an altar in the name of Jehovah, and made a trench round about the altar, of the capacity of two measures of seed;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:32And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:32And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:32With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two measures of seed.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:32and he buildeth with the stones an altar, in the name of Jehovah, and maketh a trench, as about the space of two measures of seed, round about the altar.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:32And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.