1st Kings Chapter 18 verse 35 Holy Bible

ASV 1stKings 18:35

And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
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BBE 1stKings 18:35

And the water went all round the altar, till the drain was full.
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DARBY 1stKings 18:35

And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
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KJV 1stKings 18:35

And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
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WBT 1stKings 18:35

And the water ran around the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
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WEB 1stKings 18:35

The water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
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YLT 1stKings 18:35

and the water goeth round about the altar, and also, the trench he hath filled with water.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 35. And the water ran round [Heb. the waters went round] about the altar, and he filled the trench also [i.e., the trench, which was only partially filled with the water of the twelve כַּדִּים, he now filled to the brim] with water. [The object of these repeated drenchings of the victim and altar was to exclude all suspicion of fraud. It would almost seem as if tricks not unlike that practised year by year at the Greek Easter at Jerusalem were familiar to that age. Some of the fathers expressly state that the idolatrous priests of an earlier time were accustomed to set fire to the sacrifice from hollow places concealed beneath the altar, and it was an old tradition (found in Ephrem Syrus, and Chrysostom) that the Baal prophets had concealed a man for that purpose beneath their altar, but that he had died from suffocation (Stanley). Bahr, however, sees in these 3 x 4 vessels of water a symbolical act. The significance of this combination, he says, is unmistakable (cf. "Symbolik" 1. pp. 150, 169, 193, 205), though we cannot be certain as to the precise meaning of the prophetic act. His only suggestion is that it points to abundance of rain as the reward of keeping the covenant (Deuteronomy 28:12, 23). But all this is extremely precarious, and the more so as the pitchers may have been filled any number of times before the trench was full.]

Ellicott's Commentary