aDeut. 12:5, 11; 14:23; 16:6, 11; 26:2; 1 Kgs. 8:29; 9:3; 2 Chr. 6:6; 7:16; 12:13; Ezra 6:12; Neh. 1:9; Ps. 74:7; Jer. 7:10, 12
hSee 2 Chr. 4:1
Exodus 20:24-25
24An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. aIn every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bbless you. 25 cIf you make me an altar of stone, dyou shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it.Judges 6:26
26and build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of the estronghold here, with stones laid in due order. Then take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah that you shall cut down.”2 Samuel 24:18
David Builds an Altar
18And Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, raise an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of fAraunah the Jebusite.”2 Samuel 24:25
25And David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. gSo the Lord responded to the plea for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel.1 Kings 8:64
64The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord, for there he offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings, because hthe bronze altar that was before the Lord was too small to receive the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings.Hebrews 13:10
10We have an altar ifrom which those who serve the tent have no right to eat.
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