Twelve stones for the altar

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.

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

32And with the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh, and he made a trench around the altar, like the capacity for two seahs of seed.