Altar

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 1 Kings 16:33 OT

  Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

• 2 Kings 21:3 OT

  For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

• Deuteronomy 16:21 OT

  You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahweh your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves.

• Exodus 34:13 OT

  but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles;

• Deuteronomy 7:5 OT

  But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire.

• Deuteronomy 27:8 OT

  You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.”

• Genesis 8:20 OT

  Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

• 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 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.”

• Genesis 35:3 OT

  Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”

• Genesis 35:7 OT

  He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

• 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.”

• Joshua 8:30 OT

  Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,

• Joshua 8:31 OT

  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 up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh and…

• 2 Chronicles 4:1 OT

  Then he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.