“Make an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and
goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you. If you make
an altar of stones for me, do not build it with dressed stones, for you will defile it if you use a tool on it”
(Exodus 20:24-25, NIV).
Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had
come, saying, “Your name shall be Israel” (1Kings 18:31).
“Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe, and tell them to take up twelve stones from
the middle of the Jordan, from right where the priests are standing, and carry them over with you and put them
down at the place where you stay tonight” (Joshua 4:2-3)

These stones are the stone pillars built according to the twelve tribes of Israel. The diameter of a pilar is “23.75”.
Nine out of these twelve are standing at the site, but the remaining three have not been discovered. People
wondered where these large white pieces of marble had come from, and they found a marble stone quarry
nearby. 2.4km west of the foot of the mountain where the stone pillars were discovered, 2010m above sea level,
460m elevated from the stone pillars were the traces of a quarry and enormous pieces of marble.