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The water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
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Eliminating All Doubt
Commentators explain that Elijah's act of drenching the altar and filling the trench with water was a deliberate strategy. By making the sacrifice completely waterlogged, he created a scenario where a natural fire was impossible, thus providing what one scholar calls "full proof and demonstration" that there could be no trickery involved.
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19th Century
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the water ran round about the altar There being such a large effusion of it on it;
and he fil…
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…
