'Altar' in the Bible
So if you are offering your gift on the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you,
leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
Also, ‘Whoever takes an oath by the altar, it means nothing. But whoever takes an oath by the gift that is on it is bound by his oath.’
Blind people! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
Therefore, the one who takes an oath by the altar takes an oath by it and by everything on it.
So all the righteous blood shed on the earth will be charged to you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing to the right of the altar of incense.
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.“Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible.
For as I was passing through and observing the objects of your worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.
Don’t you know that those who perform the temple services eat the food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the offerings of the altar?
Look at the people of Israel. Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in what is offered on the altar?
For the One these things are spoken about belonged to a different tribe. No one from it has served at the altar.
It contained the gold altar of incense and the ark of the covenant, covered with gold on all sides, in which there was a gold jar containing the manna, Aaron’s staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.
We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle do not have a right to eat.
Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?
When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the people slaughtered because of God’s word and the testimony they had.
Another angel, with a gold incense burner, came and stood at the altar. He was given a large amount of incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the gold altar in front of the throne.
The angel took the incense burner, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it to the earth; there were rumblings of thunder, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
The sixth angel blew his trumpet. From the four horns of the gold altar that is before God, I heard a voice
Then I was given a measuring reed like a rod, with these words: “Go and measure God’s sanctuary and the altar, and count those who worship there.
Yet another angel, who had authority over fire, came from the altar, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Use your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from earth’s vineyard, because its grapes have ripened.”
Then I heard someone from the altar say:Yes, Lord God, the Almighty,true and righteous are Your judgments.
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- Altar (358 instances)