Altars: Natural Rocks Sometimes Used As

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Judges 6:19-21
And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.
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Judges 13:19,20
So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it on a rock to the LORD: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
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Syria at the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest
... homogeneity, did not destroy its natural character ... blocked with gravel and fallen
rocks, winds its ... conventional representation, and was sometimes used to denote ...
/.../chapter iisyria at the beginning.htm

Pagan Shrines and Temples.
... were those which spring from the lava rocks at Nemi ... the monuments which bore it,
as a natural consequence of ... River-God buried in 1440, the Isiac altars of the ...
/.../lanciani/pagan and christian rome/chapter ii pagan shrines and.htm

The Infallibility of God's Purpose
... given place to despondency, and the natural effervescence of ... only to deal with the
solid rocks and with ... They had builded seven altars and offered seven bullocks ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 7 1861/the infallibility of gods purpose.htm

The First Chaldaean Empire and the Hyksos in Egypt
... Near Yakhmur some detached rocks appear to have been ... of about 3000 feet, resembling
a natural rampart flanked with ... and the hill-tops are sometimes covered with ...
/.../chapter ithe first chaldaean empire.htm

Aubrey Leigh was a Man who had Chosen his Own Way of Life...
... own way of life, and, as a natural consequence of ... of flame against the splendour
of church altars;"some deed of ... Death at every turn of the rocks, which, like ...
/.../corelli/the master-christian/xviii aubrey leigh was a.htm

Letter cxxx. To Demetrias.
... the lily of the valleys." [3682] "The rocks" then "are ... nature if you are to forswear
your natural function, to ... doors with silver and adorn the altars with gold ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter cxxx to demetrias.htm

The Memphite Empire
... of the human dynasties, had fortified this natural opening, some ... their diorite and
other hard rocks, the favourite ... they will furnish your altars with offerings ...
/.../chapter iithe memphite empire.htm

The Sibylline Oracles.
... It was natural and easy to employ this means of disseminating ... "When from the cloven
rocks of Italy ... or libations to statues, nor deck their altars with flowers ...
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Footnotes
... Skinner, 169 f.). But it was natural to the ... adds when their children remember their
altars and Asherim ... McFadyen, Skinner); missurim = from the rocks (Rothstein ...
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The Iranian Conquest
... perfect purity in their persons, their altars, their victims ... The change effected
was so natural that their ... figures, legends, from which we sometimes learn the ...
/.../chapter ithe iranian conquest.htm

Subtopics

Altars

Altars for Burnt-Offering

Altars for Idolatrous Worship, often Erected on Roofs of Houses

Altars for Idolatrous Worship, to be Destroyed

Altars of Brick, Hateful to God

Altars of David

Altars of Gideon