◄ 1 Kings 18:35 ►
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Good News Translation
The water ran down around the altar and filled the trench.

New Revised Standard Version
so that the water ran all around the altar, and filled the trench also with water.

Contemporary English Version
until finally, the water ran down the altar and filled the ditch.

New American Bible
The water flowed around the altar; even the trench was filled with the water.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the water run round about the altar, and the trench was filled with water.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the water run round about the altar, and the trench was filled with water.

ran [heb] went

1 Kings 18:32,38 And he built with the stones an altar to the name of the Lord: and he made a trench for water, of the breadth of two furrows, round about the altar. . . .

Context
Elijah on Mount Carmel
…34And he said: Fill four buckets with water, and pour it upon the burnt offering, and upon the wood. And again he said: Do the same the second time. And when they had done it the second time, he said: Do the same also the third time. And they did so the third time. 35And the water run round about the altar, and the trench was filled with water.
Cross References
1 Kings 18:34
And he said: Fill four buckets with water, and pour it upon the burnt offering, and upon the wood. And again he said: Do the same the second time. And when they had done it the second time, he said: Do the same also the third time. And they did so the third time.

1 Kings 18:36
And when it was now time to offer the holocaust, Elias, the prophet, came near and said: O Lord God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Israel, shew this day that thou art the God of Israel, and I thy servant, and that according to thy commandment I have done all these things.

1 Kings 18:34
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