46 Bible Verses about Building Altars

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Numbers 23:1

And Balaam will say to Balak, Build to me here seven altars, and prepare to me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

Exodus 32:5

And Aaron will see, and he will build an altar before it; and Aaron will call and say, A festival to Jehovah tomorrow.

Genesis 12:7

And Jehovah shall be seen to Abram, and will say, To thy seed will I give this land, and he will build there an altar to Jehovah, being seen to him.

Genesis 12:8

And he will remove from thence to the mountain from the cast of the house of God, and shall stretch forth his tent; Bethel from the sea, and Hai from the east, and he shall build there an altar to Jehovah, and will call upon the name of Jehovah.

Genesis 13:4

To the place of the altar which he made there in the beginning; and there he will call on the name of Jehovah.

Genesis 13:18

And Abram will pitch his tent, and will come and will dwell by the oaks of Mamra which is in Hebron, and he will build there an altar to Jehovah.

Genesis 22:9

And they will come to the place which God said to him; and Abraham will build an altar there, and put in order the wood: and he will find Isaak his son, and put him upon the altar, upon the wood.

Genesis 26:25

And he will build an altar there, and will call on the name of Jehovah, and will stretch out there his tent: and there Isaak's servants will dig a well.

Genesis 33:20

And he will set there an altar, and he will call upon it, God the God of Israel.

Genesis 35:1

And God will say to Jacob, Arise, go up to the house of God and dwell there: and make there an altar to God, having been seen to thee in thy fleeing from the face of Esau thy brother.

Genesis 35:7

And he will build there an altar, and will call the place, God, the house of God; for there God appeared to him in his fleeing from the face of his brother.

Exodus 17:15

And Moses will build an altar, and he will call its name, Jehovah my Standard.

Joshua 8:30

Then Joshua will build an altar to Jehovah the God of Israel in mount Ebal.

Joshua 22:10

And they will come to the circuits of Jordan, which are in the land of Canaan, and the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh will build there an altar upon Jordan, a great altar for seeing.

Joshua 22:11

And the sons of Israel will hear saying, Behold, the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh built an altar over against the land of Canaan, at the circuits of Jordan, at the passing over of the sons of Israel.

Joshua 22:16

Thus said all the assembly of Jehovah, What transgression this which ye transgressed against the God of Israel to turn back this day from after Jehovah, in your building to you an altar for your rebellion this day against Jehovah?

Joshua 22:19

And surely, if the land of your possession is unclean, pass over for yourselves to the land of the possession of Jehovah, where the dwelling of Jehovah dwelt there, and take possession in the midst of us: and ye shall not rebel against Jehovah, and ye shall not rebel against us in your building to yourselves an altar beside the altar of Jehovah our God.

Joshua 22:23

To build to us an altar to turn back from after Jehovah, and if to bring up upon it a burnt-offering and a gift, and if to do upon it sacrifices of peace Jehovah he will search;

Joshua 22:26

And we shall say, We will do now for ourselves to build an altar, not for burnt-offerings and not for sacrifice:

Judges 6:24

And Gideon will build there an altar to Jehovah, and he will call to him Jehovah-peace: till this day and it yet in Ophrah of the father of Edrei.

Judges 6:26

And build an altar to Jehovah thy God upon the head of this strong place, in order, and take the second bullock and bring up a burnt-offering upon the wood of the wooden pillar which thou shalt cut down.

Judges 6:28

And the men of the city will rise early in the morning, and behold, the altar of Baal thrown down, and the wooden pillar which is upon it cut down, and the second bullock brought up upon the altar having been built

Judges 21:4

And it will be on the morrow, and the people will rise early and they will build there an altar, and will bring up burnt-offerings and peace.

Ezra 3:2

And Joshua the son of Josedek, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and they will build the altar of the God of Israel, to bring up upon it burnt-offerings as written in the law of Moses the man of God.

1 Samuel 7:17

And his turning back to Ramah; for there his house; and there he judged Israel; and he will build an altar there to Jehovah.

1 Samuel 14:35

And Saul will build an altar to Jehovah: this altar he began to build to Jehovah.

2 Samuel 24:18

And Gad will come to David in that day and say to him, Go up, raise up an altar to Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

2 Samuel 24:21

And Araunah will say, Wherefore came my lord the king to his servant? and David will say, To buy from thee the threshing-floor to build an altar to Jehovah, and the slaughter shall be withheld from above the people.

2 Samuel 24:25

And David will build there an altar to Jehovah, and he will bring up burnt-offerings and peace. And Jehovah will be entreated for the land, and the slaughter will be withheld from Israel.

1 Chronicles 21:18

And the messenger of Jehovah said to Gad to say to David that David shall go up to set up an altar to Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Oman the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:22

And David will say to Ornan, Thou shalt give to me the place of the threshing-floor, and I will build in it an altar to Jehovah: for the full silver thou shalt give it to me, and the smiting shall be restrained from the people.

1 Chronicles 21:26

And David will build there an alter to Jehovah, and he will bring up burnt-offerings and peace, and will call to Jehovah; and he will answer him in fire from the heavens upon the altar of burnt-offering.

1 Kings 9:25

And Solomon brought up three times in a year burnt-offerings and peace upon the altar which he built to Jehovah, and he burnt incense upon it that was before Jehovah: and he completed the house.

1 Kings 12:33

And he brought up upon the altar which he made m the house of God, in the fifteenth day, in the eighth month, in the month which he devised of himself; and he will make a festival to the sons of Israel: and he will go up upon the altar to burn incense.

1 Kings 16:32

And he will raise up an altar to Baal in the house of Baal which he built in Shomeron.

2 Kings 16:11

And Urijah the priest will build an altar according to all which king Ahaz sent from Damascus: thus did Urijah the priest till the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus.

2 Chronicles 28:24

And Ahaz will gather together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of Jehovah, and he will make to him altars in every corner in Jerusalem.

2 Kings 21:3

And he will turn back and build the heights which Hezekiah his father destroyed; and he will raise up altars to Baal, and make a statue as did Ahab king of Israel; and he will worship to all the army of the heavens, and serve' them.

2 Kings 21:4

And he built altars in the house of Jehovah where Jehovah said, In Jerusalem I will put my name.

2 Kings 21:5

And he will build altars to all the army of the heavens in the two enclosures of the house of Jehovah.

2 Kings 23:12

And the altars which were upon the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz which the kings of Judah made, and the altars which Manasseh made in the two enclosures of the house of Jehovah, the king broke down, and he will break in pieces from thence, and cast their dust into the torrent Kidron.

2 Chronicles 33:3

And he will turn back and build the heights which Hezekiah his father pulled down; and he will raise up altars for the Baals, and he will make statues, and worship to all the army of the heavens, and he will serve them.

2 Chronicles 33:4

And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, which Jehovah said, In Jerusalem shall be my name forever.

2 Chronicles 33:5

And he will build altars to all the army of the heavens in the two enclosures of the house of Jehovah.

2 Chronicles 33:15

And he will remove the strange gods and the likeness from the house of Jehovah, and all the altars which he built in the mountain of the house of Jehovah, and in Jerusalem, and he will cast without to the city.

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