7 occurrences

'Altars' in the Bible

All the people of the land went and demolished the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols to bits. They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altar. Jehoiada the priest then placed guards at the Lord's temple.

Perhaps you will tell me, 'We are trusting in the Lord our God.' But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, 'You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem.'

He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.

He built altars in the Lord's temple, about which the Lord had said, "Jerusalem will be my home."

In the two courtyards of the Lord's temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

The king tore down the altars the kings of Judah had set up on the roof of Ahaz's upper room, as well as the altars Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the Lord's temple. He crushed them up and threw the dust in the Kidron Valley.

He sacrificed all the priests of the high places on the altars located there, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
אראיל 
'ari'eyl 
Usage: 2

מדבּח 
Madbach (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

מזבּח 
Mizbeach 
Usage: 401

βῶμος 
Bomos 
Usage: 1

θυσιαστήριον 
Thusiasterion 
Usage: 16

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