I Księga Królewska 18:38

Biblia Gdańska

Tedy spadł ogień Pański, i pożarł całopalenie, i drwa, i kamienie, i proch; a wodę, która była w rowie, wysuszył.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Tedy spadł ogień Pański i popalił ofiarę i drwa, kamienie i proch k temu wysuszył i wodę, która w przekopie była.

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Na te słowa spadł ogień PANA i strawił ofiarę całopalną, drewno, kamienie, powierzchnię ziemi, a wodę wypełniającą rów wysuszył.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Więc spadł ogień WIEKUISTEGO i pochłonął całopalenie, drwa, kamienie i ziemię, a nawet wyssał wodę, która była w rowie.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
Tedy spadł ogień Pański, i pożarł całopalenie, i drwa, i kamienie, i proch; a wodę, która była w rowie, wysuszył.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Wtedy spadł ogień PANA i pochłonął ofiarę całopalną i drwa, i kamienie, i proch. A wodę, która była w rowie, wysuszył.

Biblia Warszawska
Wtedy spadł ogień Pana i strawił ofiarę całopalną i drwa, i kamienie, i ziemię, a wodę, która była w rowie, wysuszył.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Then the: Genesis 15:17, Leviticus 9:24, Judges 6:21, 1 Chronicles 21:26, 2 Chronicles 7:1

fire: 1 Kings 18:24, Leviticus 10:2, 2 Kings 1:12, Job 1:16, Isaiah 31:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:4 - had Exodus 29:18 - a burnt offering Judges 13:19 - did wonderously 1 Kings 18:35 - the trench 1 Kings 19:12 - a fire 2 Chronicles 31:1 - all Israel Hebrews 11:4 - he obtained Revelation 13:13 - he maketh

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the fire of the Lord fell,.... An extraordinary fire from God out of heaven, as the effects of it show:

and consumed the burnt sacrifice; as it had done in former instances, Leviticus 9:24, and besides this, which is still more extraordinary,

and the wood, and the stones, and the dust; of the altar, thereby signifying that even such were not to be used any more:

and licked up the water that was in the trench; around the altar, see

1 Kings 18:32.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The fire of the Lord fell - This cannot have been a flash of lightning. It was altogether, in its nature as well as in its opportuneness, miraculous. Compare the marginal references for the conduct of the people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 18:36. Then the fire of the Lord fell — It did not burst out from the altar; this might still, notwithstanding the water, have afforded some ground for suspicion that fire had been concealed, after the manner of the heathens, under the altar.

Pindar's account of the Rhodians' settling is the isle of Rhodes, and their first sacrifice there, bears a near affinity to the account here given: the shower of gold descending on the sacrifice offered up without fire, to show the approbation of their god, is little more than a poetic account of the above transactions.

Καιτοι γαρ αιθουσας εχοντεςπ

Σπερμ ' ανεβαν φλογος ου

Τευξαν δ ' απυροις ἱεροις

Αλσος εν ακροπολει· κεινοισι μεν ξαν -

θαν αγαγων νεφελαι·

Πολυν ὑσε χρυσον

Pind. Olymp. Od. 7, ver. 86.

The Rhodians, mindful of their sire's behest,

Straight in the citadel an altar reared;

But with imperfect rites the Power addressed,

And without fire their sacrifice prepared;

Yet Jove, approving, o'er the assembly spread

A yellow cloud, that dropped with golden dews.

WEST.

Consumed the burnt-sacrifice — The process of this consumption is very remarkable, and all calculated to remove the possibility of a suspicion that there was any concealed fire.

1. The fire came down from heaven.

2. The pieces of the sacrifice were first consumed.

3. The wood next, to show that it was not even by means of the wood that the flesh was burned.

4. The twelve stones were also consumed, to show that it was no common fire, but one whose agency nothing could resist.

5. The dust, the earth of which the altar was constructed, was burned up.

6. The water that was in the trench was, by the action of this fire, entirely evaporated.

7. The action of this fire was in every case downward, contrary to the nature of all earthly and material fire. Nothing can be more simple and artless than this description, yet how amazingly full and satisfactory is the whole account!