Altars
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Greek
2379. thusiasterion -- an altar
... Word Origin from a derivation of thusia and -terion (suff. denoting place) Definition
an altar NASB Word Usage altar (23), altars (1). altar. ...
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Strong's Hebrew
2553. chamman -- a sun pillar
... 2552, 2553. chamman. 2554 . a sun pillar. Transliteration: chamman Phonetic
Spelling: (kham-mawn') Short Definition: altars. Word ...
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4729c. meqatterah -- incense altar
... 4729b, 4729c. meqatterah. 4730 . incense altar. Transliteration: meqatterah
Short Definition: altars. Word Origin from the same ...
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4196. mizbeach -- an altar
... Word Origin from zabach Definition an altar NASB Word Usage altar (349), altars
(52). altar. From zabach; an altar -- altar. see HEBREW zabach. 4195, 4196. ...
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Library

Sparrows and Altars
... VOLUME II: PSALMS LI to CXLV SPARROWS AND ALTARS. 'Yea, the sparrow hath
found ... we may rest. 'Thine altars, O Lord of hosts! my King ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture j/sparrows and altars.htm

February the Eighth Revisiting Old Altars
... FEBRUARY The Eighth REVISITING OLD ALTARS. ... It is a blessed thing to revisit our early
altars. It is good to return to the haunts of early vision. ...
/.../february the eighth revisiting old.htm

Martin Destroys Heathen Temples and Altars.
... Martin. Chapter XIV. Martin destroys Heathen Temples and Altars. Nor did he show
less eminence, much about the same time, in other transactions of a like kind. ...
/.../life and writings of sulpitius severus /chapter xiv martin destroys heathen.htm

Argument: Whatever the Christians Worship, they Strive in Every ...
... Chapter X."Argument: Whatever the Christians Worship, They Strive in Every Way to
Conceal: They Have No Altars, No Temples, No Acknowledged Images. ...
/.../the octavius of minucius felix/chapter x argument whatever the christians.htm

Argument: nor Can it be Said that the Christians Conceal what they ...
... Chapter XXXII."Argument: Nor Can It Be Said that the Christians Conceal What They
Worship Because They Have No Temples and No Altars, Inasmuch as They are ...
/.../felix/the octavius of minucius felix/chapter xxxii argument nor can it.htm

Behold Then Your State, Ye Ministers, that Wait at Christian ...
... Address 148: Behold then your state, ye ministers, that wait at Christian
altars� Behold then your state, ye ministers, that wait ...
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Celsus Then Proceeds to Say that "We Shrink from Raising Altars...
... Chapter XVII. Celsus then proceeds to say that "we shrink from raising
altars� Celsus then proceeds to say that "we shrink from ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter xvii celsus then proceeds.htm

Josiah
... to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved
images, and the molten images.4. And they brake down the altars of Baalim in ...
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Sin's Writing and Its Erasure
... is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon
the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars.'"Jeremiah 17:1 ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/sins writing and its erasure.htm

So, Then, if These Things are So, we Desire to Learn This...
... Again, it is impossible to suppose that any one believes this, because we see that
of these things which are brought to their altars, nothing is added to and ...
/.../arnobius/the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/3 so then if these.htm

Thesaurus
Altars (55 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Altars (55 Occurrences). Romans 11:3 "Lord, they
have killed your prophets, they have broken down your ...
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Incense-altars (1 Occurrence)
Incense-altars. Incense-altar, Incense-altars. Incense-burners .
Multi-Version Concordance Incense-altars (1 Occurrence). ...
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Asherim (20 Occurrences)
... Exodus 34:13 but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars,
and you shall cut down their Asherim; (WEB JPS ASV NAS). ...
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Smashed (22 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 11:18 All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it
down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed ...
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Ashe'rim (19 Occurrences)
... Ashe'rim (19 Occurrences). Exodus 34:13 But ye shall break down their altars, and
dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim. (See RSV). ...
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Asherahs (23 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Asherahs (23 Occurrences). Exodus 34:13 but ye shall demolish
their altars, shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs. (DBY). ...
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Demolished (15 Occurrences)
... Romans 11:3 "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your
altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life." (See RSV). ...
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Groves (32 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Groves (32 Occurrences). Exodus 34:13 But ye shall destroy
their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: (KJV WBS). ...
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Shrines (40 Occurrences)
... Exodus 34:13 for their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars
ye shiver, and its shrines ye cut down; (YLT). Deuteronomy ...
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Powder (14 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 23:12 And the king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper
chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that ...
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Bible Concordance
Altars (55 Occurrences)

Romans 11:3 "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 34:13 but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
(WEB BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 3:31 Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 23:1 Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 23:4 God met Balaam: and he said to him, "I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 23:14 He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 23:29 Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 7:5 But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 12:3 and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 2:2 and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not listened to my voice: why have you done this?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 14:35 And Saul buildeth an alter to Jehovah; with it he hath begun to build altars to Jehovah.
(YLT)

1 Kings 13:33 After this Jeroboam, not turning back from his evil ways, still made priests for his altars from among all the people; he made a priest of anyone desiring it, so that there might be priests of the high places.
(BBE)

1 Kings 19:10 He said, "I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 19:14 He said, "I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 11:18 All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over the house of Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 18:22 But if you tell me,'We trust in Yahweh our God;' isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem,'You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?'
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 21:3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 21:4 He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, "I will put my name in Jerusalem."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 21:5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 23:12 The altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, did the king break down, and beat them down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 23:20 He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men's bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 14:3 for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 14:5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 23:17 All the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down, and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 28:24 Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of Yahweh; and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 30:14 They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 31:1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 32:12 Has not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, You shall worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn incense?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 33:3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 33:4 He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 33:5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 33:15 He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Yahweh, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of Yahweh, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 34:4 They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the incense altars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 34:5 He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 34:7 He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 84:3 Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Isaiah 17:8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the incense altars.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 27:9 Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 36:7 But if you tell me,'We trust in Yahweh our God,' isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem,'You shall worship before this altar?'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 65:3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
(KJV WBS NIV)

Jeremiah 11:13 For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 17:1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 17:2 while their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 6:4 Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 6:5 I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 6:6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 6:13 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered pleasant aroma to all their idols.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Hosea 4:19 The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.
(See RSV)

Hosea 8:11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Hosea 10:1 Israel is a luxuriant vine that puts forth his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Hosea 10:2 Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Hosea 10:8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, "Cover us!" and the hills, "Fall on us!"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Hosea 12:11 If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Amos 3:14 "For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Altars

Altars for Burnt-Offering

Altars for Idolatrous Worship, often Erected on Roofs of Houses

Altars for Idolatrous Worship, to be Destroyed

Altars for Incense

Altars of Abraham

Altars of Ahaz

Altars of Balaam

Altars of Brick, Hateful to God

Altars of David

Altars of Gideon

Altars of Isaac

Altars of Jacob

Altars of Jeroboam at Bethel

Altars of Joshua

Altars of Moses

Altars of Noah

Altars of Reubenites East of Jordan

Altars of Samuel

Altars of the Athenians

Altars of the People of Israel

Altars of the Second Temple

Altars of the Temple of Solomon

Altars were not to Have Steps up to Them

Altars: Afforded No Protection to Murderers

Altars: Designed for Sacrifice

Altars: Idolaters Planted Groves Near

Altars: Natural Rocks Sometimes Used As

Altars: Probable Origin of Inscriptions On

Altars: Protection Afforded By

Altars: The Jews not to Plant Groves Near

Altars: To be Made of Earth, or Unhewn Stone

Related Terms

Incense-altars (1 Occurrence)

Asherim (20 Occurrences)

Smashed (22 Occurrences)

Ashe'rim (19 Occurrences)

Asherahs (23 Occurrences)

Demolished (15 Occurrences)

Groves (32 Occurrences)

Shrines (40 Occurrences)

Powder (14 Occurrences)

Statues (7 Occurrences)

Pulled (84 Occurrences)

Poles (58 Occurrences)

Tore (59 Occurrences)

Mattan (3 Occurrences)

Chopped (3 Occurrences)

Sun-images (6 Occurrences)

Starry (14 Occurrences)

Standing-pillars (9 Occurrences)

Squares (25 Occurrences)

Erected (26 Occurrences)

Ba'al (55 Occurrences)

Hewed (22 Occurrences)

Kidron (11 Occurrences)

Bits (54 Occurrences)

Asherah (40 Occurrences)

Brake (80 Occurrences)

Baals (18 Occurrences)

Branching (12 Occurrences)

Ba'als (19 Occurrences)

Smash (8 Occurrences)

Shatter (26 Occurrences)

Torrent (49 Occurrences)

Engraved (62 Occurrences)

Buildeth (73 Occurrences)

Hew (17 Occurrences)

Carved (36 Occurrences)

Idols (186 Occurrences)

Tear (97 Occurrences)

Altar (343 Occurrences)

Dash (30 Occurrences)

Stars (64 Occurrences)

Graven (61 Occurrences)

Torn (100 Occurrences)

Broke (153 Occurrences)

Pillars (132 Occurrences)

Outer (98 Occurrences)

Leafy (22 Occurrences)

Graves (37 Occurrences)

Watchmen (40 Occurrences)

Worshipper (15 Occurrences)

Inspectors (10 Occurrences)

Fingers (22 Occurrences)

Raiseth (33 Occurrences)

Rubble (17 Occurrences)

Reared (22 Occurrences)

Rebuilt (47 Occurrences)

Removeth (27 Occurrences)

Removing (24 Occurrences)

Depending (8 Occurrences)

Devastated (20 Occurrences)

Demolish (16 Occurrences)

Posted (8 Occurrences)

Baalim (18 Occurrences)

Columns (17 Occurrences)

Cleared (17 Occurrences)

Attempting (24 Occurrences)

Abolished (12 Occurrences)

Serveth (24 Occurrences)

Shiver (3 Occurrences)

Shattered (42 Occurrences)

Sun-pillars (3 Occurrences)

Breaketh (49 Occurrences)

Trying (68 Occurrences)

Shameful (27 Occurrences)

Paphos (2 Occurrences)

Beat (85 Occurrences)

Place (9195 Occurrences)

Omnipresence

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