1 Mga Hari 18:33

Filipino Tagalog Bible

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Filipino Cebuano Bible
33 Ug iyang gibalay ang tinapok nga kahoy, ug gihiwahiwa ang lakeng vaca, ug gitungtong kini sa ibabaw sa kahoy. Ug siya miingon: Pun-a ang upat ka tadyaw sa tubig, ug ibubo kana sa halad nga sinunog, ug sa ibabaw sa kahoy.

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

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.