Bible Cross References
altar of shittim wood
Exodus 20:24-26
24
Make an altar of earth for me, and on it sacrifice your sheep and your cattle as offerings to be completely burned and as fellowship offerings. In every place that I set aside for you to worship me, I will come to you and bless you.
25
If you make an altar of stone for me, do not build it out of cut stones, because when you use a chisel on stones, you make them unfit for my use.
26
Do not build an altar for me with steps leading up to it; if you do, you will expose yourselves as you go up the steps.
Exodus 24:4
Moses wrote down all the LORD's commands. Early the next morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stones, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Exodus 38:1-7
1
For burning offerings, he made an altar out of acacia wood. It was square, 7 1/2 feet long and 7 1/2 feet wide, and it was 4 1/2 feet high.
2
He made the projections at the top of the four corners, so that they formed one piece with the altar. He covered it all with bronze.
3
He also made all the equipment for the altar: the pans, the shovels, the bowls, the hooks, and the fire pans. All this equipment was made of bronze.
4
He made a bronze grating and put it under the rim of the altar, so that it reached halfway up the altar.
5
He made four carrying rings and put them on the four corners.
6
He made carrying poles of acacia wood, covered them with bronze,
7
and put them in the rings on each side of the altar. The altar was made of boards and was hollow.
Exodus 40:10
Next, dedicate the altar and all its equipment by anointing it, and it will be completely holy.
Exodus 40:29
and there in front of the curtain he placed the altar for burning offerings. On it he sacrificed the burnt offering and the grain offering, just as the LORD had commanded.
2 Samuel 24:18
That same day Gad went to David and said to him, "Go up to Araunah's threshing place and build an altar to the LORD."
2 Chronicles 4:1
King Solomon had a bronze altar made, which was 30 feet square and 15 feet high.
Ezekiel 43:13-17
13
These are the measurements of the altar, using the same unit of measure as in measuring the Temple. All around the base of the altar there was a gutter 20 inches deep and 20 inches wide, with a rim at the outside edge 10 inches high.
14
The lowest section of the altar, from the top of the base, was 4 feet high. The next section was set back from the edge 20 inches all around, and was 7 feet high. The section after that was also set back from the edge 20 inches all around.
15
This top section, on which the sacrifices were burned, was also 7 feet high. The projections on the four corners were higher than the rest of the top.
16
The top of the altar was a square, 20 feet on each side.
17
The middle section was also a square, 24 feet on each side, with a rim at the outside edge 10 inches high. (The gutter was 20 inches wide.) The steps going up the altar were on the east side.
Hebrews 13:10
The priests who serve in the Jewish place of worship have no right to eat any of the sacrifice on our altar.