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Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Yahweh came, saying, Israel shall be your name.
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A Symbol of Unity
Commentators explain that Elijah's use of twelve stones was a powerful visual sermon. It symbolized that despite the political split into northern and southern kingdoms, God still viewed the twelve tribes as one unified covenant people. This act was a call for national and spiritual reunion under the one true God.
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19th Century
Anglican
Twelve stones. —The emphatic notice of these, as emblematic of the twelve tribes, is significant. In spite of political division, …
Baptist
For he meant this day to prove that God was God of the twelve tribes — not of himself and his tribe, but of all the families of Israel.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob<…
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Presbyterian
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…
