“And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.”
They made a horn at each of the four corners, so that the horns and the altar were of one piece, and they overlaid it with bronze. The four integral horns overlaid with bronze — exactly as Exodus 27:2 specified. The horns that will receive the blood of atonement offerings and serve as a place of refuge (1 Kings 1:50–51) are built into the altar's structure from the beginning. The bronze overlay communicates the altar's place in the material hierarchy: bronze for the outer courtyard. But the bronze of the altar is not inferior — it is appropriate to the altar's function as the site of fire and blood in the open-air courtyard.
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