He built an altar in the name of the Lord - that is, calling on the name of Yahweh as he built it, and so dedicating it to His service.

Measures. —The “measure,” the third part of the ephah, therefore also often called shalish (a “tierce,” or “third”), was …

There was the prayer. How different altogether from this repetition of words – this leaping – this cutting with knives. He states his wish; he plea…

And with the stones he built an altar in the same of the Lord ,
&c.] Whom the twelve tribes had formerly worshipped;…

Many of the people wavered in their judgment and varied in their practice. Elijah called upon them to determine whether Jehovah or Baal was the sel…