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Altar
Featured studies
5 results- StudyThe AltarA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe TabernacleSeven elements of the Mosaic Tabernacle mapped to their explicit New Testament fulfillment: Hebrews 8:5 calls the whole structure a shadow of heavenly things.
- StudyFireThe bush that burns and is not consumed, the pillar, the altar, the tongues at Pentecost, and the lake at the end: what fire does in Scripture is refine, judge and reveal.
- StudyThe High-Priestly LineOne family carried Israel's altar for a thousand years — until a priest arrived who needed no genealogy and would never die.
- StudyThe Puritans & Pietists (1600–1730): church historyThe Reformation had opened the Bible. Now came the harder question: has it opened you? This is the century of the examined heart, the family altar, and the prayer meeting that would not quit.
Verses
377 results- VerseHosea 8:11Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.
- VerseExodus 40:10Anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate the altar, and it shall be most holy.
- VerseExodus 27:5Set the grate beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar.
- VerseGenesis 33:20There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
- VerseExodus 17:15And Moses built an altar and named it The LORD Is My Banner.
People
2 results- PersonGideonThe least of the least, threshing wheat in a winepress when the Angel called him mighty man of valor; he tore down Baal's altar, put out the fleece, and routed Midian with…
- PersonEpimenides of KnossosCretan poet-prophet whose line "Cretans are always liars" Paul quotes at Titus 1:12 ("a prophet of their own"), and whose altar tradition stands behind Acts 17:23's unknown god.
Places
6 results- PlaceBethelThe house of God, where Jacob saw the ladder and heard the promise, where he returned to raise an altar, and where Jeroboam’s golden calf later stood until Josiah broke the…
- PlaceShechemThe city between Ebal and Gerizim where Abram built his first altar in the land, where Joshua set the people to choose whom they would serve, and where Jesus sat at Jacob’s well.
- PlaceAraratThe mountains of the old kingdom of Urartu where the ark came to rest as the waters went down, where Noah built his altar and saw the bow, and where a later king’s sons fled…
- PlaceMount CarmelThe long ridge above the sea where Elijah rebuilt the altar of the LORD, called down fire before the prophets of Baal, and prayed until a cloud the size of a man’s hand rose…
- PlaceMount EbalThe mountain of the curse where Joshua built an altar and read the whole law to Israel, the first act of worship inside the land.
Words (Strong's)
12 results- WordH4196 מִזְבֵּחַ · mizbêach (Hebrew)an altar. The Hebrew word stands 401 times in the original text.
- WordG2379 θυσιαστήριον · thysiastḗrion (Greek)a place of sacrifice, i.e. an altar (special or genitive case, literal or figurative). The Greek word stands 23 times in the original text.
- WordH741 אֲרִאֵיל · ʼăriʼêyl (Hebrew)the altar of the temple. The Hebrew word stands 2 times in the original text.
- WordH4056 מַדְבַּח · madbach (Hebrew)a sacrificial altar. The Hebrew word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordG1041 βωμός · bōmós (Greek)properly, a stand, i.e. (specially) an altar. The Greek word stands 1 time in the original text.
Themes
4 results- ThemeWorshipScripture's worship vocabulary carries two roots held together: *shachah* (to bow down, prostrate) and *abad* (to serve, to labor for). *Shachah* is first rendered "worship" at…
- ThemeCovenantIn Scripture a covenant is not a vague feeling. It is a formal, oath-bound promise between named parties, with a stated promise and usually a visible sign to mark it. (The…
- ThemeHolinessHoliness begins as a claim about God before it becomes a summons to His people. The Hebrew *qadosh* carries a double sense — "set apart" and "whole, intact" — and Leviticus…
- ThemeObedienceObedience enters the story at the very first command. In Eden, the boundary God sets — one tree, one prohibition — is the whole test of the relationship (Gen 2:17), and the…
Topics
1 resultProphecies
2 results- ProphecyBethel's Altar Desecrated by Named King JosiahAn unnamed prophet during Jeroboam's reign (c. 930 BC) named Josiah specifically as a future Davidic king who would destroy Bethel's altar—approximately 300 years before…
- ProphecyJosiah Predicted by NameA king named Josiah would be born to David's line and destroy the altar at Bethel.
Voices
5 results- VoicePrudentiusAurelius Prudentius Clemens was born in 348 in Roman Spain, probably at Calahorra or Saragossa. He tells his own story in a short preface written when he was fifty-seven, and…
- VoiceJohn ChrysostomJohn was born at Antioch about 347. His father Secundus, an army officer, died while he was an infant; his mother Anthusa was widowed at twenty and refused to remarry so she…
- VoicePaschasius RadbertusPaschasius was born about 785 near Soissons, in northern France. He was abandoned as an infant on the steps of a convent and raised by the nuns of Notre-Dame at Soissons; he…
- VoiceWilliam J. SeymourWilliam Joseph Seymour was born in Louisiana to parents who had been slaves, lost the sight of one eye to smallpox, and learned Pentecostal doctrine in Houston in 1905 sitting…
- VoiceÓscar RomeroÓscar Arnulfo Romero was made Archbishop of San Salvador in 1977 because the government and the wealthy families expected a quiet bookish man who would not make trouble. Three…
Apocrypha (study resources)
55 results- Study resource2 Maccabees 6:5The altar also was filled with profane things, which the law forbiddeth.
- Study resource1 Esdras 1:18And offer sacrifices upon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandment of king Josias.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 7:36Then the priests entered in, and stood before the altar and the temple, weeping, and saying,
- Study resource1 Maccabees 1:59Now the five and twentieth day of the month they did sacrifice upon the idol altar, which was upon the altar of God.
- Study resource2 Esdras 10:21For thou seest that our sanctuary is laid waste, our altar broken down, our temple destroyed;
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H4196מִזְבֵּחַ mizbêach — an altarG2379θυσιαστήριον thysiastḗrion — a place of sacrifice, i.e. an altar
(special or genitive case, literal or figurative)H741אֲרִאֵיל ʼăriʼêyl — the altar of the templeH4056מַדְבַּח madbach — a sacrificial altarG1041βωμός bōmós — properly, a stand, i.e. (specially) an
altarH2025הַרְאֵל harʼêl — mount of God