When He slew them, they sought Him; and they returned and sought diligently after God.

And they remembered that God was their Helper, and the Most High God was their Redeemer.

I will go and return to My place, until they are brought to nought, and [then] shall they seek My face.

And you shall build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this rock in the proper arrangement, and you shall take the second bullock, and shall offer up whole burnt offerings with the wood of the grove, which you shall destroy.

You shall make to Me an altar of earth; and upon it you shall sacrifice your whole burnt offerings, and your peace offerings, and your sheep and your calves in every place, where I shall record My name; and I will come to you and bless you.

And if you will make to Me an altar of stones, you shall not build it of hewn [stones]; for if you have lifted up your tool upon them, then they are defiled.

And Gad came to David in that day, and said to him, Go up, and set up to the Lord and altar on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered up whole burnt offerings and peace offerings; and Solomon made an addition to the altar afterwards, for it was little at first. And the Lord hearkened to the land, and the plague was withdrawn from Israel.

In that day the king consecrated the middle of the court in the front of the house of the Lord; for there he offered the whole burnt offering, and the sacrifices, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which was before the Lord [was too] small to bear the whole burnt offering and the sacrifices of peace offerings.

We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.