Thematic Bible: A term used to describe places of worship


Thematic Bible



From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent. Bethel was on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to Jehovah and called on the name of Jehovah.

David built an altar for Jehovah there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. So Jehovah heard the prayers for the country. The plague on Israel stopped.

Take your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.

He offered a sacrifice on the mountain. He invited his relatives to eat the meal with him. They ate with him and spent the night on the mountain.

Then the fire of Jehovah came down. It burned up the offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and drinking up the water in the drain.

One time he went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices because that was where the most used altar was. He offered hundreds of burnt offerings there in the past.

David left Zadok and his priestly relatives to serve in Jehovah's Tent at the place of worship in Gibeon.

The girls answered: He is there ahead of you. Hurry! He just went into the city today since the people are offering a sacrifice at the worship site.

Abraham named that place Jehovah Will Provide. It is still said today: It will be provided on the mountain of Jehovah.

A Temple had not yet been built for Jehovah. The people were still offering sacrifices at many different altars.

Then Elijah said to all the people: Come near to me. Then all the people came near. He repaired the altar of Jehovah that was broken down.

Then Solomon and the entire assembly went to the place of worship in Gibeon because God's Tent of Meeting was there. Jehovah's servant Moses pitched the tent in the desert.

However the people continued to sacrifice at the illegal places of worship. But they sacrificed only to Jehovah their God.