Altar

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Genesis 8:2 OT

  The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

• Genesis 12:7 OT

  Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

• Genesis 12:8 OT

  He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.

• Genesis 13:18 OT

  Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.

• Genesis 22:9 OT

  They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

• Genesis 26:25 OT

  He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.

• Genesis 33:20 OT

  He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.

• Genesis 35:1-7 OT

  God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.” Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the…

• Exodus 17:15 OT

  Moses built an altar, and called its name “Yahweh our Banner”.

• Exodus 24:4 OT

  Moses wrote all Yahweh’s words, then rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

• Numbers 23:1 OT

  Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

• Numbers 23:14 OT

  He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

• Numbers 23:29 OT

  Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”

• Deuteronomy 27:4-7 OT

  It shall be, when you have crossed over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and you shall coat them with plaster. There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones.…

• Joshua 8:30-32 OT

  Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of uncut stones, on which no one had lifted…

• Joshua 22:10 OT

  When they came to the region near the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an altar there by the Jordan, a great altar to look at.

• Joshua 22:34 OT

  The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar “A Witness Between Us that Yahweh is God.”

• Judges 6:26 OT

  Then build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”

• Judges 6:27 OT

  Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him. Because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city, he could not do it by day, but he did it by night.

• 1 Samuel 7:17 OT

  His return was to Ramah, for his house was there; and he judged Israel there; and he built an altar to Yahweh there.

• 1 Samuel 14:35 OT

  Saul built an altar to Yahweh. This was the first altar that he built to Yahweh.

• 2 Samuel 24:18 OT

  Gad came that day to David, and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

• 2 Samuel 24:19 OT

  David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded.

• 1 Kings 18:31 OT

  Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom Yahweh’s word came, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”