Commentaries:
Here appears "the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob" again. We never seem to stray very far from God's identification with Israel. In Galatians 6:16, the church itself is called "the Israel of God." God identifies Himself, not just with physical Israel, but with spiritual Israel. The stones used to prepare the altar are, in this case, representative of physical Israel. And in the time of the book of Revelation, the time of the end, those stones will be made up of spiritual Israel (see Revelation 7:4-8; 12:1; 21:12).
Richard T. Ritenbaugh
The Two Witnesses (Part Six)
Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing 1 Kings 18:31:
Jeremiah 14:22
Amos 7:7-9
Mark 7:8
1 Corinthians 1:2