<t /><p class="bodytext">The leaders offered<n id="1" /> gifts<n id="2" /> for<n id="3" /> the dedication<n id="4" /> of the altar when it was anointed.<n id="5" /> And the leaders presented<n id="6" /> their offering before the altar.

<p class="bodytext">Then God met Balaam, who<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">So Balak brought Balaam<n id="1" /> to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah,<n id="2" /> where<n id="3" /> he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the <sc>Lordsc> your God; the blood of your other sacrifices<n id="1" /> you must pour out on his<n id="2" /> altar while you eat the meat.

As the flame went up from the altar toward the sky, the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s messenger went up in it<n id="1" /> while Manoah and his wife watched. They fell facedown<n id="2" /> to the ground.p>

The altar split open and the ashes<n id="1" /> fell from the altar to the ground,<n id="2" /> in fulfillment of the sign the prophet had announced with the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s authority.<n id="3" />

With the stones he constructed an altar for the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="1" /> Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs<n id="2" /> of seed.

When the king arrived back from Damascus and<n id="1" /> saw the altar, he approached it<n id="2" /> and offered a sacrifice on it.<n id="3" />

David built there an altar to the <sc>Lordsc> and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings.<n id="1" /> He called out to the <sc>Lordsc>, and the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> responded by sending fire from the sky and consuming the burnt sacrifice on the altar.

All the people went and demolished<n id="1" /> the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols.<n id="2" /> They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.

Hezekiah is the one who eliminated<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s<n id="2" /> high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem, &#8220;At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices.&#8221;

This is in spite of the fact that<n id="1" /> the people of Judah have as many gods as they have towns<n id="2" /> and the citizens of Jerusalem have set up as many altars to sacrifice to that disgusting god, Baal, as they have streets in the city!&#8217;<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Certainly when<n id="1" /> I punish Israel for their<n id="2" /> covenant transgressions,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I will destroy<n id="4" /> Bethel&#8217;s<n id="5" /> altars.p> <p class="poetry">The horns<n id="6" /> of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.p>

There he set up an altar and called it &#8220;The God of Israel is God.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

Moses built an altar, and he called it &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> is my Banner,&#8221;<n id="1" />

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;You are to make an altar for burning incense;<n id="2" /> you are to make it of<n id="3" /> acacia wood.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">And he put the gold altar in the tent of meeting in front of the curtain,

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Then the priest<n id="1" /> must take all its fat<n id="2" /> and offer the fat<n id="3" /> up in smoke on the altar.

Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar<n id="1" /> as a gift to the <sc>Lordsc>. It is a guilt offering.

and he slaughtered it.<n id="1" /> Moses then splashed the blood against the altar&#8217;s sides.