Graphic Bible · Scene 13 of 22
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.
Open this scene in the reader →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.
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