1 Kings 18:35

Myles Coverdale Bible

And ye water ranne aboute the altare, and ye pytt was full of water also.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So the water ran all around the altar; he even filled the trench with water.

Hebrew Names Version
The water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

King James Version
And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

English Standard Version
And the water ran around the altar and filled the trench also with water.

New Century Version
So the water ran off the altar and filled the ditch.

New English Translation
The water flowed down all sides of the altar and filled the trench.

Amplified Bible
The water flowed around the altar, and he also filled the trench with water.

New American Standard Bible
The water flowed around the altar, and he also filled the trench with water.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the water ran round about the altar: and he filled the ditch with water also.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the water flowed around the altar and he also filled the trench with water.

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

Complete Jewish Bible
By now the water was flowing around the altar, and it had filled the trench.

Darby Translation
And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

Easy-to-Read Version
The water ran down off the altar and filled the ditch.

George Lamsa Translation
And the water ran round about the altar; and they filled the trench also with water.

Good News Translation
The water ran down around the altar and filled the trench.

Lexham English Bible
The water went all around the altar, and the trench also was filled with water.

Literal Translation
And the water went around the altar, and also he filled the trench with water.

American Standard Version
And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

Bible in Basic English
And the water went all round the altar, till the drain was full.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the water ran round about the aulter, & he filled the pitte with water also.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

King James Version (1611)
And the water ran round about the altar, and hee filled the trench also with water.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the water ran round about the altar, and they filled the trench with water.

English Revised Version
And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

Berean Standard Bible
So the water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the watris runnen aboute the auter, and the dich of ledyng to `of watir was fillid.

Young's Literal Translation
and the water goeth round about the altar, and also, the trench he hath filled with water.

Update Bible Version
And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the water ran around the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

World English Bible
The water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

New King James Version
So the water ran all around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.

New Living Translation
and the water ran around the altar and even filled the trench.

New Life Bible
The water flowed around the altar, and filled the ditch also.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the water ran round about the altar, - moreover also, the trench, filled he with water.

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

Revised Standard Version
And the water ran round about the altar, and filled the trench also with water.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The water flowed around the altar and he also filled the trench with water.

Contextual Overview

²¹ Then stepte Elias vnto all the people, & sayde: How longe halte ye on both ye sydes? Yf the LORDE be God, the walke after him: but yf Baal be he, the folowe him. And the people gaue him no answere. ²² The sayde Elias vnto the people: I onely am lefte a prophet of ye LORDE: but Baals prophetes are foure C. and fiftie me. ²³ Geue vs now two bullockes, & let them chose one bullocke, & hewe him in peces, & laye him vpo the wod, & put no fyre theron: so wil I take ye other bullock, & laye him vpo the wod, & put no fyre theron also: ²⁴ call ye then vpo the name of yor god, & I wil call vpo the name of the LORDE: loke which God now answereth with fyre, let the same be God. And all the people answered & sayde: That is righte. ²⁵ And Elias sayde vnto Baals prophetes: Chose ye one bullock, and do ye it first (for ye are many) and call ye vpon the name of youre god, & laye no fyre theron. ²⁶ And they toke the bullock which he gaue them, & prepared it, & called vpon the name of Baal from the mornynge vntyll the noone daye, and sayde: O Baal heare vs. But there was nether voyce ner answere. And they hopped aboute the altare, as their vse was to do. ²⁷ Now whan it was noone daye, Elias mocked them, and sayde: Crye loude. For he is a god, peradueture he is musynge, or hath somwhat to do, or is gone some iourneye, or happlye he slepeth, so that he wolde be waked vp. ²⁸ And they cried loude, and prouoked the selues with knyues & botkens, (as their maner was) tyll ye bloude folowed. ²⁹ But whan ye noone daye was past, they prophecied vntyll the tyme that the meatofferynge shulde be offered, & there was nether voyce ner answere, ner one to regarde them. ³⁰ Then sayde Elias vnto all the people: Come hither all ye people vnto me. And whan all ye people came to him, he repayred ye altare of the LORDE yt was broken,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ran: Heb. went

the trench: 1 Kings 18:32, 1 Kings 18:38

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the water ran round about the altar,.... There being such a large effusion of it on it;

and he filled the trench also with water; which surrounded the altar, so that it seemed impracticable that any fire should kindle upon it; and this gave full proof and demonstration there could be no collusion in this matter.