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Elijah calls the people near and repairs Yahweh’s altar with twelve stones and a trench.
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1 Kings 18:30-32

Twelve stones for the altar

Elijah at Mount Carmel · 1 Kings 18

Story guide: Elijah gathers the people close as he rebuilds the broken altar from twelve stones, one for each tribe, with a trench dug around it.

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30Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the people came near to him, and he repaired the altar of Yahweh that had been torn down.

31Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob's sons. Yahweh had said to Jacob, “Israel shall be your name.”

32With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh, and he dug a trench around the altar that could hold about two seahs of seed.

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