Exodus 30:1-5
The Altar of Incense
30:1 “You are to make an altar for burning incense; you are to make it of acacia wood.
30:2 Its length is to be a foot and a half and its width a foot and a half; it will be square. Its height is to be three feet, with its horns of one piece with it.
30:3 You are to overlay it with pure gold – its top, its four walls, and its horns – and make a surrounding border of gold for it.
30:4 You are to make two gold rings for it under its border, on its two flanks; you are to make them on its two sides. The rings will be places for poles to carry it with.
30:5 You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
Exodus 40:5
40:5 You are to put
the gold altar for incense in front of the ark of the testimony and put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
Exodus 40:26-27
40:26 And he put the gold altar in the tent of meeting in front of the curtain,
40:27 and he burned fragrant incense on it, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Exodus 40:2
40:2 “On the first day of the first month you are to set up
the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.
Exodus 26:16
26:16 Each
frame is to be fifteen feet long, and each frame is to be two feet three inches wide,
Matthew 23:19
23:19 You are blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
Luke 1:9-10
1:9 he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood,
to enter
the holy place
of the Lord and burn incense.
1:10 Now
the whole crowd
of people were praying outside at the hour of the incense offering.
Hebrews 7:25
7:25 So he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
Hebrews 13:10
13:10 We have an altar that those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat from.
Hebrews 13:1
Final Exhortations
13:1 Brotherly love must continue.
Hebrews 2:5
Exposition of Psalm 8: Jesus and the Destiny of Humanity
2:5 For he did not put the world to come, about which we are speaking, under the control of angels.
Revelation 8:3-4
8:3 Another
angel holding
a golden censer
came and was stationed
at the altar. A
large amount of incense was given to him to offer up, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar that is before the throne.
8:4 The
smoke coming from the incense,
along with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel’s hand.