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With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
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An Altar of Dedication
Commentators explain that building the altar "in the name of the Lord" was a formal act of dedication. Elijah was publicly reclaiming this space for Yahweh, the God whom all twelve tribes (represented by the twelve stones) were meant to worship. This act was a prayer and a declaration of faith before any fire was called down.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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.
19th Century
Anglican
Measures. —The “measure,” the third part of the ephah, therefore also often called shalish (a “tierce,” or “third”), was …
Baptist
There was the prayer. How different altogether from this repetition of words – this leaping – this cutting with knives. He states his wish; he plea…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
