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1 Raja-raja 18:33

Ia menyusun kayu api, memotong lembu itu dan menaruh potongan-potongannya di atas kayu api itu.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ahab;   Barrel;   Carmel;   Faith;   Prayer;   Revivals;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Awakenings and Religious Reforms;   Awakenings, Religious;   Barrel;   Bullocks;   Elijah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Carmel;   Priest;   Sacrifice;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Carmel;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Miracle;   Persecution;   Prayer;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hospitality;   Zeal;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Altar;   Baal;   Barrel;   Cattle;   Conduit;   Elijah;   False Prophet;   False Worship;   Fertility Cult;   Gods, Pagan;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Mountain;   Prayer;   Waterpot;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahab;   Barrel;   Carmel;   Haggai;   House;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Living (2);   Waterpot ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ahab ;   Baal, Baalim ;   Barrel;   Carmel ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mount carmel;   Obadiah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Carmel;   Elijah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Car'mel;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Four;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Altar;   Priest;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Barrel;   Elijah;   Order;   Priesthood;  

Devotionals:

- Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life - Devotion for July 25;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ia menyusun kayu api, memotong lembu itu dan menaruh potongan-potongannya di atas kayu api itu.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu dibubuhnya kayu api di atasnya dan dipenggal-penggalnya lembu muda itu, diletakkannya segala penggal itu di atas kayu api itu.

Contextual Overview

21 And Elias came vnto all the people, and said: how long halt ye betweene two opinions? If the Lorde be God, folowe him: but if Baal be he, then go after him. And the people aunswered him not one worde. 22 Then saide Elias vnto the people [againe] I onely remayne a prophete of the Lorde: but Baals prophets are foure hundred and fiftie. 23 Let them therefore geue vs two oxen, and let them choose the one, & cut hym in peeces, and lay him on wood, and put no fire vnder: and I wyll dresse the other oxe, and laye him on wood, & wyll put no fyre vnder. 24 And call ye on the name of your gods, & I wyl call on the name of the Lorde: and then the God that aunswereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people aunswered and saide, It is wel spoken. 25 And Elias saide vnto the prophets of Baal: Choose you an oxe, & dresse him first, for ye are many: & call on the name of your gods, but put no fire vnder. 26 And they toke the one oxe that he dyd geue them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning to noone, saying, O Baal heare vs. But there was no voyce, nor one to aunswere: And they lept vpon the aulter that they had made. 27 And at noone Elias mocked them, and sayde: Crye lowde, for he is a God, peraduenture he is talking, or occupied in folowing vpon his enemies, or is in his iourney, or happyly he slepeth, and must be awaked [with your crie.] 28 And they cried lowde, and cut them selues as their maner was with kniues & launcers, till the blood folowed on the. 29 And it chaunced, that when midday was passed, they prophesied vntill the time of the euening sacrifice: But there was neither voyce, nor one to aunswere, nor any that regarded them. 30 And Elias said vnto all the folke: Come to me. And all the people came to him: And he repaired the aulter of the Lord that was broken.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he put: Genesis 22:9, Leviticus 1:6-8

Fill four: Daniel 3:19, Daniel 3:25, John 11:39, John 11:40, John 19:33, John 19:34

pour it: Judges 6:20

Reciprocal: Leviticus 1:8 - General Mark 9:2 - an high

Cross-References

Genesis 18:16
And the men rysyng vp from thence, loked toward Sodome: and Abraham went with them to bryng them on the way.
Genesis 18:22
And the men departed thence, & went to Sodomeward: but Abraham stoode yet before the Lorde.
Genesis 31:55
And early in the mornyng Laban rose vp, and kyssed his sonnes and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departyng, went into his place agayne.
Genesis 32:26
And he said: let me go, for the day breaketh. Whiche aunswered: I will not let thee go, except thou blesse me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood,.... Just in such manner as sacrifices usually were:

and said, fill four barrels with water; either from the brook Kishon, or, if that was dried up, from the sea; for both were near this mountain, and so to be had, though a time of drought:

and pour it on the burnt sacrifice; that which was intended to be one:

and upon the wood: wherewith it was to be burnt, and so made unfit for it; and which would make the miracle appear the greater, when fire came down and consumed it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he put the wood in order ... - He obeyed, that is, all the injunctions of the Law with respect to the offering of a burned sacrifice (marginal reference). He thus publicly taught that the ordinances of the Law were binding upon the kingdom of Israel.

Barrels - Rather, “pitchers” or “water-jars,” such as the maidens used to carry on their heads (Genesis 24:14-20. Compare Judges 7:16, Judges 7:19). The flooding the sacrifice and the trench with water would at once do away with any suspicion of fraud, and greatly enhance in the eyes of the people the marvelousness of the miracle. The unfailing spring at the eastern end of Carmel 1 Kings 18:19, was capable of furnishing as much water as he needed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 33. Fill four barrels — This was done to prevent any kind of suspicion that there was fire concealed under the altar. An ancient writer under the name of Chrysostom, quoted by Calmet, says that he had seen under the altars of the heathens, holes dug in the earth with funnels proceeding from them, and communicating with openings on the tops of the altars. In the former the priests concealed fire, which, communicating through the funnels with the holes, set fire to the wood and consumed the sacrifice; and thus the simple people were led to believe that the sacrifice was consumed by a miraculous fire. Elijah showed that no such knavery could be practiced in the present case. Had there been a concealed fire under the altar, as in the case mentioned above, the water that was thrown on the altar must have extinguished it most effectually. This very precaution has for ever put this miracle beyond the reach of suspicion.


 
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