Altar

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• 2 Chronicles 4:19 OT

  Solomon made all the vessels that were in God’s house, the golden altar also, and the tables with the show bread on them;

• Ezra 3:2 OT

  Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the…

• Ezra 3:3 OT

  In spite of their fear because of the peoples of the surrounding lands, they set the altar on its base; and they offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening.

• 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.

• 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.

• Judges 21:4 OT

  On the next day, the people rose early and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

• 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.

• 2 Samuel 24:21 OT

  Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”

• 2 Samuel 24:25 OT

  David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.

• 1 Kings 12:33 OT

  He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn…

• 2 Kings 16:10-12 OT

  King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a drawing of the altar and plans to build it. Urijah the priest built an altar. According…

• Acts 17:23 NT

  For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.

• Exodus 27:1-8 OT

  “You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square. Its height shall be three cubits. You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall…

• Exodus 30:1-6 OT

  “You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood. Its length shall be a cubit, and its width a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall…

• 1 Kings 1:50 OT

  Adonijah was afraid because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and hung onto the horns of the altar.

• 1 Kings 1:51 OT

  Solomon was told, “Behold, Adonijah fears king Solomon; for, behold, he is hanging onto the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let king Solomon swear to me first that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’ ”

• Exodus 21:14 OT

  If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

• 1 Kings 2:18-34 OT

  Bathsheba said, “All right. I will speak for you to the king.” Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne…