Topic

Altar

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Genesis 8:20–22

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

Hebrews 13:10

We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.

Exodus 20:24–26

You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you. — read the full passage →

Genesis 12:7

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

Revelation 6:9–11

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. — read the full passage →

Genesis 8:20

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 35:1–14

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.” — read the full passage →

Exodus 20:24

You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

Exodus 17:15

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

2 Samuel 24:24

The king said to Araunah, “No; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

Genesis 22:9

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

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

Romans 12:1

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Exodus 24:4

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

Matthew 5:24

leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

Numbers 4:11

“On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.

Exodus 20:26

Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’

Acts 17:23

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

1 Kings 8:64

The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before Yahweh’s house; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.

Genesis 13:4

to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.

1 Kings 9:25

Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh three times a year, burning incense with them, on the altar that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.

2 Kings 23:12

The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of Yahweh’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.

Genesis 13:18

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

Revelation 16:7

I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.”

Matthew 5:23

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

Genesis 12:8

He left from there 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.

Luke 15:7

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

Ezekiel 41:22

The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and its corners, and its length, and its walls, were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table that is before Yahweh.

Genesis 35:7

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.

Genesis 35:1

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.”

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

1 Kings 6:20

Within the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.

Exodus 40:5

You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.

Ezekiel 6:3

and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.

Numbers 23:14

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.

Exodus 20:25

If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.

Genesis 33:20

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

2 Kings 21:3

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

Leviticus 4:18

He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Exodus 30:1–6

“You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood. — read the full passage →

Exodus 29:12

You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.

Genesis 35:3

Let us 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.”

Revelation 5:8

Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Amos 3:14

“For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground.

Psalms 141:2

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

Exodus 30:9

You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it.

Exodus 21:14

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

John 3:16–17

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Hosea 8:11

Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.

2 Kings 23:8

He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.

1 Kings 7:48

Solomon made all the vessels that were in Yahweh’s house: the golden altar, and the table whereupon the show bread was, of gold;

Joshua 22:10

When they came to the region about 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 there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look at.

Numbers 23:1

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

Exodus 39:39

the bronze altar, its grating of brass, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base,

Exodus 30:10

Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh.”

Revelation 8:3–4

Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne. — read the full passage →

Luke 1:11

An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

Ezekiel 43:15

The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.

Exodus 27:1–8

“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be square: and its height shall be three cubits. — read the full passage →

Matthew 12:1–50

At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. — read the full passage →

Malachi 1:6–10

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ — read the full passage →

2 Chronicles 4:1

Then he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits its length, and twenty cubits its breadth, and ten cubits its height.

1 Kings 8:22

Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;

1 Samuel 7:17

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

Leviticus 19:28

“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 6:12–13

The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning: and he shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. — read the full passage →

Exodus 40:26

He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting before the veil;

Exodus 30:28

the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base.

Revelation 6:9

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.

Acts 17:10–11

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Matthew 25:41

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

Matthew 18:21–22

Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?” — read the full passage →

Isaiah 27:9

Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.

2 Kings 16:4

He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

1 Kings 16:32–33

He reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. — read the full passage →

Leviticus 4:7

The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he shall pour out all of rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Romans 10:9

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Jeremiah 32:29

and the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.

2 Chronicles 29:1–36

Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. — read the full passage →

1 Samuel 14:35

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

Judges 21:4

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

Numbers 23:29

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

Leviticus 6:9

“Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.

Exodus 27:1

“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be square: and its height shall be three cubits.

2 Corinthians 3:18

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

John 19:10

Pilate therefore said to him, “Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?”

Hosea 10:8

The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, “Cover us!” and the hills, “Fall on us!”

Ezekiel 43:13

These are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a hand breadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.

Jeremiah 52:17

The Chaldeans broke the pillars of brass that were in Yahweh’s house, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house in pieces, and carried all of their brass to Babylon.

1 Chronicles 4:1

The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.

2 Kings 16:1–20

In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. — read the full passage →

1 Kings 8:2

All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

Leviticus 16:12

He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:

Exodus 30:1–10

“You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood. — read the full passage →

Exodus 20:24–25

You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you. — read the full passage →

Luke 4:16

He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

1 Samuel 2:13–14

The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, while the flesh was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand; — read the full passage →

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