Altars

12 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

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Exodus 21:14 But if a man schemes and acts willfully against his neighbor to kill him, you must take him away from My altar to be put to death.
1 Kings 2:18–34 “Very well,” Bathsheba replied. “I will speak to the king for you.” …

Exodus 20:24 You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.

Judges 6:30 Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has torn down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”
1 Kings 16:32–33 First, Ahab set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria. …
2 Kings 21:3 For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.

Judges 6:19–21 So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak. …
Judges 13:19–20 Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD. And as Manoah and his wife looked on, the LORD did a marvelous thing. …

Deuteronomy 27:8 And you shall write distinctly upon these stones all the words of this law.”

1 Kings 1:50–51 But Adonijah, in fear of Solomon, got up and went to take hold of the horns of the altar. …

Deuteronomy 16:21 Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,

Exodus 20:24–25 You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you. …
Deuteronomy 27:5–6 Moreover, you are to build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them. …