Bible Verses About Altars

It shall be a cubit in length, and another in breadth, that is, four square, and two in height. Horns shall go out of the same.

And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold, as well the grate thereof, as the walls round about, and the horns. And thou shalt make to it a crown of gold round about,

And two golden rings under the crown on either side, that the bars may be put into them, and the altar be carried.

And thou shalt make the bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold.

And thou shalt set the altar over against the veil, that hangeth before the ark of the testimony before the propitiatory wherewith the testimony is covered, where I will speak to thee.

But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their groves:

And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.

And when he had brought him to a high place, upon the top of mount Phasga, Balaam built seven altars, and laying on every one a calf and a ram,

Balaam said to him: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.

But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven things.

Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the Lord thy God:

And thou shalt build there an altar to the Lord thy God, of stones which iron hath not touched,

And of stones not fashioned nor polished: and thou shalt offer upon it holocausts to the Lord thy God:

And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law plainly and clearly.

Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Hebal,

As Moses, the servant of the Lord, had commanded the children of Israel, and it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of unhewn stones, which iron had not touched: and he offered upon it holocausts to the Lord, and immolated victims of peace offerings.

And when they were come to banks of the Jordan, in the land of Chanaan, they built an altar immensely great near the Jordan.

So Gedeon went in, and boiled a kid, and made unleavened loaves of a measure of flour: and putting the flesh in a basket, and the broth of the flesh into a pot, he carried all under the oak, and presented to him.

And the angel of the Lord said to him: Take the flesh and the unleavened loaves, and lay them upon that rock, and pour out the broth thereon. And when he had done so,

The angel of the Lord put forth the tip of the rod, which he held in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened loaves: and there arose a fire from the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened loaves: and the angel of the Lord vanished out of his sight.

And thou shalt build un altar to the Lord thy God, in the top of this rock, whereupon thou didst lay the sacrifice before: and thou shalt take the second bullock, and shalt offer a holocaust upon a pile of the wood, which thou shalt cut down out of the grove.

Then Gedeon, taking ten men of his servants, did as the Lord had commanded him. But fearing his father's house, and the men of that city, he would not do it by day, but did all by night.

And they said to Joas: Bring out thy son hither, that he may die: because he hath destroyed the altar of Baal, and hath cut down his grove.

Then Manue took a kid of the flocks, and the libations, and put them upon a rock, offering to the Lord, who doth wonderful things: and he and his wife looked on.

And when the flame from the altar went up towards heaven, the angel of the Lord ascended also in the same. And when Manue and his wife saw this, they fell flat on the ground;