Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.

His stairs

Bible References

And the border

Exodus 25:25
And you will make for it a handbreadth rim all around, and you will make a gold molding for its rim all around.
Exodus 30:3
And you will overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around and its horns, and you will make for it a gold molding all around.
1 Kings 18:32
With them, he built an altar in the name of Yahweh, and he made a trench {which would have held} about two seahs of seed, all around the altar.

His stairs

Exodus 20:26
You will not go up with steps onto my altar, that your nakedness not be exposed on it.'

Look toward

Ezekiel 8:16
And he brought me to the inner courtyard of the house of Yahweh, and look, [at] the doorway of the temple of Yahweh, between the portico and the altar, [there were] about twenty-five men [with] their backs to the temple of Yahweh and their faces toward the east, and they [were] bowing down toward the east before the sun.
Ezekiel 40:6
And [then] he went toward [the] gate whose face [was] {to the east}. And he went up by its steps, and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide.
1 Kings 6:8
The doorway of the side room in the middle of the side of the temple [was] on the south; they went up with a stairway to the middle and from the middle to the third [floor].
Nehemiah 9:4
Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani stood on the platform of the Levites and cried out with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.