1 Kings 18:32
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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 seahsa of seed.
Read 1 Kings 18:32 Using Other Translations
And 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.
and 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 seahs of seed.
and he used the stones to rebuild the altar in the name of the LORD . Then he dug a trench around the altar large enough to hold about three gallons.
What does 1 Kings 18:32 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
1 Kings 18:32
And with the stones he built an altar in the same of the
Lord,
&c.] Whom the twelve tribes had formerly worshipped; and
though now divided in their civil state, yet ought to be united
in the worship of God:
and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would
contain two
measures of seed;
or two seahs, one of which was the third part of an ephah, and
two of them were more than half a bushel; and this trench or
ditch round the altar was as broad as such a measure of seed
would sow.
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