1 Kings 18:32

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And with the stones he made an altar to the name of the Lord; and he made a deep drain all round the altar, great enough to take two measures of seed.

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Referenced Verses

  • Col 3:17 : 17 And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.
  • Exod 20:24-25 : 24 Make for me an altar of earth, offering on it your burned offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen: in every place where I have put the memory of my name, I will come to you and give you my blessing. 25 And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.
  • Judg 6:26 : 26 Make an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this rock, in the ordered way and take the ox and make a burned offering with the wood of the holy tree which has been cut down.
  • Judg 21:4 : 4 Then on the day after, the people got up early and made an altar there, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings.
  • 1 Sam 7:9 : 9 And Samuel took a young lamb, offering all of it as a burned offering to the Lord; and Samuel made prayers to the Lord for Israel and the Lord gave him an answer.
  • 1 Sam 7:17 : 17 And his base was at Ramah, where his house was; there he was judge of Israel and there he made an altar to the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 10:31 : 31 So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 18:33-36
    4 verses
    81%

    33 And he put the wood in order, and, cutting up the ox, put it on the wood. Then he said, Get four vessels full of water and put it on the burned offering and on the wood. And he said, Do it a second time, and they did it a second time;

    34 And he said, Do it a third time, and they did it a third time.

    35 And the water went all round the altar, till the drain was full.

    36 Then at the time of the offering, Elijah the prophet came near and said, O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be seen this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things by your order.

  • 1 Kgs 18:30-31
    2 verses
    81%

    30 Then Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me; and all the people came near. And he put up again the altar of the Lord which had been broken down.

    31 And Elijah took twelve stones, the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, Israel will be your name:

  • Deut 27:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5 There you are to make an altar to the Lord your God, of stones on which no iron instrument has been used.

    6 You are to make the altar of the Lord your God of uncut stones; offering on it burned offerings to the Lord your God:

  • Judg 6:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25 The same night the Lord said to him, Take ten men of your servants and an ox seven years old, and after pulling down the altar of Baal which is your father's, and cutting down the holy tree by its side,

    26 Make an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this rock, in the ordered way and take the ox and make a burned offering with the wood of the holy tree which has been cut down.

  • 1 Kgs 18:23-26
    4 verses
    72%

    23 Now, let them give us two oxen; and let them take one for themselves, and have it cut up, and put it on the wood, but put no fire under it; I will get the other ox ready, and put it on the wood, and put no fire under it.

    24 And do you make prayers to your god, and I will make a prayer to the Lord: and it will be clear that the one who gives an answer by fire is God. And all the people in answer said, It is well said.

    25 Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, Take one ox for yourselves and get it ready first, for there are more of you; and make your prayers to your god, but put no fire under.

    26 So they took the ox which was given them, and made it ready, crying out to Baal from morning till the middle of the day, and saying, O Baal, give ear to us. But there was no voice and no answer. And they were jumping up and down before the altar they had made.

  • 1 Kgs 16:32
    72%

    32 And he put up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal which he had made in Samaria.

  • Josh 8:30-31
    2 verses
    72%

    30 Then Joshua put up an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,

    31 In the way ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, as it is recorded in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, untouched by any iron instrument: and on it they made burned offerings and peace-offerings to the Lord.

  • Josh 22:26
    71%

    26 So we said, Let us now make an altar for ourselves, not for burned offerings or for the offerings of beasts:

  • 1 Kgs 18:38
    71%

    38 Then the fire of the Lord came down, burning up the offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and drinking up the water in the drain.

  • Exod 38:7
    71%

    7 He put the rods through the rings at the opposite sides of the altar for lifting it; he made the altar hollow, boarded in with wood.

  • Josh 22:23
    70%

    23 That we have made ourselves an altar, being false to the Lord, keep us not safe from death this day; and if for the purpose of offering burned offerings on it and meal offerings, or peace-offerings, let the Lord himself send punishment for it;

  • Gen 12:8
    70%

    8 And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.

  • Exod 20:25
    70%

    25 And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.

  • Gen 33:20
    70%

    20 And there he put up an altar, naming it El, the God of Israel.

  • Ezek 43:16
    69%

    16 And the fireplace is twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide, square on its four sides.

  • Exod 38:1
    69%

    1 The altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high,

  • 2 Chr 33:16
    69%

    16 And he put the altar of the Lord in order, offering peace-offerings and praise-offerings on it, and said that all Judah were to be servants of the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 13:5
    69%

    5 And the altar was broken and the burned waste on it overturned; this was the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 16:13
    69%

    13 He made his burned offering and his meal offering and his drink offering there, draining out the blood of his peace-offerings on the altar.

  • 1 Chr 22:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1 Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar for Israel's burned offerings.

    2 And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.

  • 1 Kgs 13:32
    69%

    32 For the outcry he made by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth-el and against all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, will certainly come about.

  • Gen 26:25
    69%

    25 Then he made an altar there, and gave worship to the name of the Lord, and he put up his tents there, and there his servants made a water-hole.

  • 2 Kgs 2:8
    69%

    8 Then Elijah took off his robe, and, rolling it up, gave the water a blow with it, and the waters were parted, flowing back this way and that, so that they went over on dry land.

  • 1 Kgs 7:10
    69%

    10 And the base was of great masses of highly priced stone, some ten cubits and some eight cubits square.

  • 1 Chr 21:26
    69%

    26 And David put up an altar there to the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings with prayers to the Lord; and he gave him an answer from heaven, sending fire on the altar of burned offering.

  • Exod 38:30
    68%

    30 From it he made the bases of the doorway of the Tent of meeting and the brass altar and the network for it and all the vessels for the altar,

  • 1 Kgs 18:20
    68%

    20 So Ahab sent for all the children of Israel, and got the prophets together at Mount Carmel.

  • Gen 35:14
    68%

    14 And Jacob put up a pillar in the place where he had been talking with God, and put a drink offering on it, and oil.

  • 2 Chr 4:1
    68%

    1 Then he made a brass altar, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

  • Josh 22:16
    68%

    16 This is what all the meeting of the people of the Lord has said, What is this wrong which you have done against the God of Israel, turning back this day from the Lord and building an altar for yourselves, and being false to the Lord?

  • Josh 4:8
    68%

    8 So the children of Israel did as Joshua gave them orders, and took twelve stones from the middle of Jordan, as the Lord had said to Joshua, one for every tribe of the children of Israel; these they took across with them to their night's resting-place and put them down there.

  • 2 Chr 33:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4 And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.

    5 And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 18:42
    68%

    42 So Ahab went up to have food and drink, while Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he went down on the earth, putting his face between his knees.

  • Josh 22:28
    68%

    28 For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord's altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you.

  • 2 Kgs 21:4
    67%

    4 And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

  • 1 Kgs 13:3
    67%

    3 The same day he gave them a sign, saying, This is the sign which the Lord has given: See, the altar will be broken and the burned waste on it overturned.

  • Gen 22:9
    67%

    9 And they came to the place of which God had given him knowledge; and there Abraham made the altar and put the wood in place on it, and having made tight the bands round Isaac his son, he put him on the wood on the altar.