Bible Cross References
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1 Samuel 7:9-17
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Samuel killed a young lamb and burned it whole as a sacrifice to the LORD. Then he prayed to the LORD to help Israel, and the LORD answered his prayer.
10
While Samuel was offering the sacrifice, the Philistines moved forward to attack; but just then the LORD thundered from heaven against them. They became completely confused and fled in panic.
11
The Israelites marched out from Mizpah and pursued the Philistines almost as far as Bethcar, killing them along the way.
12
Then Samuel took a stone, set it up between Mizpah and Shen, and said, "The LORD has helped us all the way"---and he named it "Stone of Help."
13
So the Philistines were defeated, and the LORD prevented them from invading Israel's territory as long as Samuel lived.
14
All the cities which the Philistines had captured between Ekron and Gath were returned to Israel, and so Israel got back all its territory. And there was peace also between the Israelites and the Canaanites.
15
Samuel ruled Israel as long as he lived.
16
Every year he would go around to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah, and in these places he would settle disputes.
17
Then he would go back to his home in Ramah, where also he would serve as judge. In Ramah he built an altar to the LORD.
1 Samuel 11:5
Saul was just then coming in from the field with his oxen, and he asked, "What's wrong? Why is everyone crying?" They told him what the messengers from Jabesh had reported.
1 Samuel 20:29
'Please let me go,' he said, 'because our family is celebrating the sacrificial feast in town, and my brother ordered me to be there. So then, if you are my friend, let me go and see my relatives.' That is why he isn't in his place at your table."
Exodus 20:24
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.
Judges 6:26
Build a well-constructed altar to the LORD your God on top of this mound. Then take the second bull and burn it whole as an offering, using for firewood the symbol of Asherah you have cut down."
Judges 21:4
Early the next morning the people got up and built an altar there. They offered fellowship sacrifices and burned some sacrifices whole.
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 Samuel 24:22
"Take it, Your Majesty," Araunah said, "and offer to the LORD whatever you wish. Here are these oxen to burn as an offering on the altar; here are their yokes and the threshing boards to use as fuel."
2 Samuel 24:25
Then he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. The LORD answered his prayer, and the epidemic in Israel was stopped.
1 Kings 18:30-38
30
Then Elijah said to the people, "Come closer to me," and they all gathered around him. He set about repairing the altar of the LORD which had been torn down.
31
He took twelve stones, one for each of the twelve tribes named for the sons of Jacob, the man to whom the LORD had given the name Israel.
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With these stones he rebuilt the altar for the worship of the LORD. He dug a trench around it, large enough to hold about four gallons of water.
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Then he placed the wood on the altar, cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, "Fill four jars with water and pour it on the offering and the wood." They did so,
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and he said, "Do it again"---and they did. "Do it once more," he said---and they did.
35
The water ran down around the altar and filled the trench.
36
At the hour of the afternoon sacrifice the prophet Elijah approached the altar and prayed, "O LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, prove now that you are the God of Israel and that I am your servant and have done all this at your command.
37
Answer me, LORD, answer me, so that this people will know that you, the LORD, are God and that you are bringing them back to yourself."
38
The LORD sent fire down, and it burned up the sacrifice, the wood, and the stones, scorched the earth and dried up the water in the trench.