Nave’s Topical Bible
Altar
88 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Built by Noah
- Built by Abraham
- Built by Isaac
- Built by Jacob
- Built by Moses
- Built by Balaam
- Built by Joshua
- Built by the Reubenites and Gadites
- Built by Gideon
- Built by Samuel
- Built by Saul
- Built by David
- Built by Elijah
- Mosaic commandments prescribing the construction of
- See
- Used in idolatrous worship
Judges 6:25; 1 Kings 12:32; 1 Kings 16:32; 1 Kings 18:26; 2 Kings 16:10; 2 Kings 23:12,15; Isaiah 27:9; Isaiah 65:3; Hosea 8:11; Acts 17:23
- OF BURNT OFFERINGS
- Called BRAZEN ALTAR
- Called ALTAR OF GOD
- Called ALTAR OF THE LORD
- IN THE TABERNACLE
- Pattern of
- Constructed by Bezaleel
- Location of
- Furniture of
- Horns of
- Uses of the horns
- How sanctified
Exodus 29:36-37,44; Exodus 30:26-28; Exodus 40:10; Leviticus 8:10-11; Numbers 7
See BLOOD
- Sanctified everything that touched it
- A place of refuge
- IN SOLOMON'S TEMPLE
- Description of
- Renewed by Asa
- Removed by Ahaz, and one of idolatrous fashion substituted
- Cleansed by Hezekiah
- Repaired by Manasseh
- Furniture of, taken to Babylon
- IN SECOND TEMPLE
- EZEKIEL'S VISION OF
See TABERNACLE
See TEMPLE
- OF INCENSE
- Called the GOLDEN ALTAR
- ALTAR OF SWEET INCENSE
- ALTAR BEFORE THE LORD
- Pattern of
- Constructed
- Location of
- A cover made for, of the censers of Korah
- Uses of
Exodus 30:7-10,26-27; Exodus 40:27; Leviticus 4:7,18; Leviticus 8:15; Leviticus 9:9; Leviticus 16:12,18
- How prepared for carrying
- Carried by Kohathites
- In Solomon's temple
- Seen in John's vision
Bible verses about “Altar”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 8:2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
- Genesis 12:7And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.
- Genesis 12:8And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth–el, and pitched his tent, having Beth–el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.
- Genesis 13:18Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord.
- Genesis 22:9And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
- Genesis 26:25And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.
- Genesis 33:20And he erected there an altar, and called it El–elohe–Israel.
- Genesis 35:1And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth–el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
- Genesis 35:2Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
- Genesis 35:3And let us arise, and go up to Beth–el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
- Genesis 35:4And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
- Genesis 35:5And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
- Genesis 35:6So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth–el, he and all the people that were with him.
- Genesis 35:7And he built there an altar, and called the place El–beth–el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
- Exodus 17:15And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it JEHOVAH–nissi:
- Exodus 24:4And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
- Numbers 23:1And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
- Numbers 23:14And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
- Numbers 23:29And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
- Deuteronomy 27:4Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.
- Deuteronomy 27:5And there shalt thou build an altar unto the Lord thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
- Deuteronomy 27:6Thou shalt build the altar of the Lord thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the Lord thy God:
- Deuteronomy 27:7And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the Lord thy God.
- Joshua 8:30Then Joshua built an altar unto the Lord God of Israel in mount Ebal,
- Joshua 8:31As Moses the servant of the Lord commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings.
- Joshua 8:32And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
- Joshua 22:10And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are 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 Jordan, a great altar to see to.
- Joshua 22:34And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the Lord is God.
- Judges 6:26And build an altar unto the Lord thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.
- Judges 6:27Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the Lord had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father’s household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
- 1 Samuel 7:17And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the Lord.
- 1 Samuel 14:35And Saul built an altar unto the Lord: the same was the first altar that he built unto the Lord.
- 2 Samuel 24:18And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the Lord in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
- 2 Samuel 24:19And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded.
- 1 Kings 18:31And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:
- 1 Kings 18:32And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
- Exodus 20:24An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
- Exodus 20:25And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
- Exodus 20:26Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
- Ezekiel 43:13And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.