Exo 30:1-9, 34-36, 31:11, 37:29, 40:27, 1Ki 13:1-2, 2Ch 26:16-20 | ESV | STEP | You shall make an altar on which to burn incense ; you shall make it of acacia wood .

Exodus 30:1-9

The Altar of Incense

1 ^a“You shall make ^ban altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood. 2 A cubit ^{▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters} shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth. It shall be square, and two cubits shall be its height. ^dIts horns shall be of one piece with it. 3 You shall ^eoverlay it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And you shall make a molding of gold around it. 4 And you shall make two golden rings for it. Under its molding on two opposite sides of it you shall make them, and they shall be ^fholders for poles with which to carry it. 5 You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 6 And you shall put it in front of the veil that is above the ark of the testimony, in front of the ^gmercy seat that is above the testimony, where I will meet with you. 7 And Aaron shall ^hburn fragrant incense on it. Every morning when he ⁱdresses the lamps he shall burn it, 8 and when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn it, a regular incense offering before the Lord throughout your generations. 9 You shall not offer ^junauthorized incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering, and you shall not pour a drink offering on it.

Exodus 30:34-36

34 The Lord said to Moses, ^k“Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each shall there be an equal part), 35 and make an ^lincense blended as by the ^mperfumer, ⁿseasoned with salt, pure and holy. 36 You shall beat some of it very small, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting ^owhere I shall meet with you. ^pIt shall be most holy for you.

Exodus 31:11

11 and ^qthe anointing oil and the fragrant ^rincense for the Holy Place. According to all that I have commanded you, they shall do.”

Exodus 37:29

29 ^sHe made the holy anointing oil also, and the ^tpure fragrant incense, blended as by the perfumer.

Exodus 40:27

27 and burned fragrant incense on it, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

1 Kings 13:1-2

A Man of God Confronts Jeroboam

1 And behold, ^ua man of God came out of Judah by the word of the Lord to Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar ^vto make offerings. 2 ^wAnd the man cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, ^xJosiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’”

2 Chronicles 26:16-20

Uzziah’s Pride and Punishment

16 But when ^yhe was strong, ^zhe grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. 17 But ^aaAzariah the priest went in after him, with eighty priests of the Lord who were men of valor, 18 and they withstood King Uzziah and said to him, ^ab“It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, ^acbut for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the Lord God.” 19 Then Uzziah was angry. Now he had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and when he became angry with the priests, ^adleprosy ^{▼▼ Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13} broke out on his forehead in the presence of the priests in the house of the Lord, by the altar of incense. 20 And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead! And they rushed him out quickly, and he himself hurried to go out, because the Lord had struck him.