Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Altar » Used in idolatrous worship
And it will be in that night Jehovah will say to him, Take a bullock of the oxen which is to thy father, and the second bullock of seven years, and break in pieces the altar of Baal, which is to thy father, and the wooden pillar which is upon it thou shalt cut down;
And Jeroboam will make a festival in the eighth month, in the fifteenth day of the month, according to the festival that is in Judah, and he will go up upon the altar. Thus he did in the house of God to sacrifice to the calves which he made: and he placed in the house of God priests of the heights which he made.
And he will raise up an altar to Baal in the house of Baal which he built in Shomeron.
And they will take the bullock which was given to them, and do, and they will call upon the name of Baal, from morning even to noon, saying, O Baal, answer us. And no voice, and none answered. And they will leap upon the altar which was made.
And king Ahaz will go up to the meeting of Tiglath-Pileser king of As-sur to Damascus, and he will see an altar which was in Damascus: and king Ahaz will send to Urijah the priest a likeness of the altar and its structure, for all its work.
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.
And also the altar which was in the house of God, the height which Jeroboam son of Nebat who caused Israel to sin, made, also that altar and height he broke down and he will burn the height, and he beat small to dust, and he burnt the image.
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob shall be expiated; and this all the fruit to remove his sin; in his setting all the stones of the altar as stones of lime broken in pieces, the statues and images shall not stand up.
The people irritating me to my face continually; sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks;
Because Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, altars were to him to sin.
For having passed by, and beholding your venerations, I found also an altar upon which was inscribed, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom not knowing therefore ye reverence, him I announce to you.
Altars » Idolatrous altars
And he will raise up an altar to Baal in the house of Baal which he built in Shomeron.
And they will take the bullock which was given to them, and do, and they will call upon the name of Baal, from morning even to noon, saying, O Baal, answer us. And no voice, and none answered. And they will leap upon the altar which was made.
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob shall be expiated; and this all the fruit to remove his sin; in his setting all the stones of the altar as stones of lime broken in pieces, the statues and images shall not stand up.
The people irritating me to my face continually; sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks;
Because Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, altars were to him to sin.
For having passed by, and beholding your venerations, I found also an altar upon which was inscribed, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom not knowing therefore ye reverence, him I announce to you.
Groves » Forbidden to be established
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob shall be expiated; and this all the fruit to remove his sin; in his setting all the stones of the altar as stones of lime broken in pieces, the statues and images shall not stand up.
Thou shalt not plant to thee a grove of any wood near the altar of Jehovah thy God which thou shalt make to thee.
For they shall be ashamed of their mighty ones which ye desired, and ye shall blush for the gardens which ye chose.
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and what his fingers made he shall not see, and the statues and the images.
Idolatry » Prophecies relating to
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob shall be expiated; and this all the fruit to remove his sin; in his setting all the stones of the altar as stones of lime broken in pieces, the statues and images shall not stand up.
And behold, here came a chariot, a man, a pair of horsemen. And he will answer and say, She fell, Babel fell; and the carved images of her god he brake in pieces to the earth.
And I reviewed over Bel in Babel, and brought forth his swallowing from his mouth: and the nations shall no more flow to him: also the wall of Babel fell.
In that day man shall cast the nothings of his silver and the nothings of his gold which they made for him to worship, to the digging of moles and to bats.
The burden of Egypt Behold, Jehovah riding upon a swift cloud and coming to Egypt: and the vanities of Egypt moved to and fro from his face, and the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst
Their heart was divided; now shall they be guilty: he will break down their altars, he shall lay waste their images
They are vanity, the work of delusions: in the time of their reviewing they shall perish.
And it was in that day, says Jehovah of armies, I will cut off the names of the images from the land, and they shall be remembered no more: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
And I passed over in the land of Egypt in this night, and I struck every first-born in the land of Egypt from man even to quadruped: and against all the gods of Egypt I will do judgments: I Jehovah.
And the Egyptians burying whom Jehovah smote among them, all the first-born: and upon their gods Jehovah did judgments.
God being terrible to them, for he made lean all the gods of the earth; and they shall worship to him each from his place, all the isles of the nations.
In that day shall the man look upon him making him, and his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and what his fingers made he shall not see, and the statues and the images.
For in that day they shall reject a man the vanities of his silver, and the vanities of his gold which your hands made for you to sin.
Thus shall ye say to them, The gods who made not the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
For this, behold, the days coming and I reviewed upon the carved images of Babel: and all her land shall be ashamed, and all her wounded shall fall in her midst
For this, behold, the days coming, says Jehovah, and I reviewed upon her carved images: and in all her land the wounded shall groan.
And he will say to me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I shall dwell there in the midst of the sons of Israel forever, and the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, they and their kings by their fornication, and by the corpses of their kings in their heights. In their giving their threshold with my thresholds, and their door-post by my door-posts, and the wall between me and between them, and they defiled my holy name with their abominations which they did: and consuming them in my anger. Now they shall put far off their fornication, and the corpses of their kings, from me, and I dwelt in the midst of them forever.
And I cut off thy carved images and thy statues from the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thy hands.
false Worship » Brazen serpent places devoted to idolatry » Idolatrous altars
And he will raise up an altar to Baal in the house of Baal which he built in Shomeron.
And they will take the bullock which was given to them, and do, and they will call upon the name of Baal, from morning even to noon, saying, O Baal, answer us. And no voice, and none answered. And they will leap upon the altar which was made.
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob shall be expiated; and this all the fruit to remove his sin; in his setting all the stones of the altar as stones of lime broken in pieces, the statues and images shall not stand up.
The people irritating me to my face continually; sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks;
Because Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, altars were to him to sin.
For having passed by, and beholding your venerations, I found also an altar upon which was inscribed, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom not knowing therefore ye reverence, him I announce to you.