Bible Verses about Altar

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Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff on 09/19/2019

What does the Bible say about Altar? Discover the top Bible verses about Altar from the Old and New Testaments. Read through the biblical references of Altar to learn more about its meaning and significance. May you find some insight from these related scripture quotes!

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Acts 17:23

23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.
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Hebrews 13:10

10 We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat.
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Revelation 8:3-4

3 Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all God’s people, on the golden altar in front of the throne.
4 The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God’s people, went up before God from the angel’s hand.
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Luke 1:11

11 Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense.
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Revelation 8:3

3 Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all God’s people, on the golden altar in front of the throne.
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Matthew 23:19

19 You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
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Revelation 16:7

7 And I heard the altar respond: “Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are your judgments.”
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Matthew 5:24

24 leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.
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Hebrews 9:4

4 which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
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Matthew 23:35

35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
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Matthew 23:18-19

18 You also say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is bound by that oath.’
19 You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
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Revelation 9:13

13 The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God.
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Matthew 5:23

23 “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you,
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Genesis 12:7

7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
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Genesis 22:9

9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
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Genesis 26:25

25 Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.
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1 Kings 8:64

64 On that same day the king consecrated the middle part of the courtyard in front of the temple of the LORD, and there he offered burnt offerings, grain offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings, because the bronze altar that stood before the LORD was too small to hold the burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings.
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Genesis 8:20

20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
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1 Kings 7:48

48 Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in the LORD’s temple: the golden altar; the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence;
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Exodus 20:24-26

24 “ ‘Make an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you.
25 If you make an altar of stones for me, do not build it with dressed stones, for you will defile it if you use a tool on it.
26 And do not go up to my altar on steps, or your private parts may be exposed.’
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Genesis 13:4

4 and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.
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Genesis 13:18

18 So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the LORD.
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Exodus 17:15

15 Moses built an altar and called it The LORD is my Banner.
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Ezekiel 43:13

13 “These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits, that cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth: Its gutter is a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around the edge. And this is the height of the altar:
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Exodus 24:4

4 Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said. He got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel.
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1 Kings 6:20

20 The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
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1 Kings 9:25

25 Three times a year Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense before the LORD along with them, and so fulfilled the temple obligations.
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Ezekiel 41:22

22 There was a wooden altar three cubits high and two cubits square ; its corners, its base and its sides were of wood. The man said to me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”
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Exodus 27:1-8

1 “Build an altar of acacia wood, three cubits high; it is to be square, five cubits long and five cubits wide.
2 Make a horn at each of the four corners, so that the horns and the altar are of one piece, and overlay the altar with bronze.
3 Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots to remove the ashes, and its shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks and firepans.
4 Make a grating for it, a bronze network, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the network.
5 Put it under the ledge of the altar so that it is halfway up the altar.
6 Make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.
7 The poles are to be inserted into the rings so they will be on two sides of the altar when it is carried.
8 Make the altar hollow, out of boards. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
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Exodus 27:2

2 Make a horn at each of the four corners, so that the horns and the altar are of one piece, and overlay the altar with bronze.
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Leviticus 16:12

12 He is to take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense and take them behind the curtain.
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Genesis 35:1

1 Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”
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2 Kings 23:12

12 He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of the temple of the LORD. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley.
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Psalms 118:27

27 The LORD is God, and he has made his light shine on us. With boughs in hand, join in the festal procession up to the horns of the altar.
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Genesis 12:8

8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.
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Leviticus 4:18

18 He is to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before the LORD in the tent of meeting. The rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
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1 Chronicles 28:18

18 and the weight of the refined gold for the altar of incense. He also gave him the plan for the chariot, that is, the cherubim of gold that spread their wings and overshadow the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
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Ezekiel 43:15

15 Above that, the altar hearth is four cubits high, and four horns project upward from the hearth.
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Exodus 30:1-10

1 “Make an altar of acacia wood for burning incense.
2 It is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high —its horns of one piece with it.
3 Overlay the top and all the sides and the horns with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.
4 Make two gold rings for the altar below the molding—two on each of the opposite sides—to hold the poles used to carry it.
5 Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
6 Put the altar in front of the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law—before the atonement cover that is over the tablets of the covenant law—where I will meet with you.
7 “Aaron must burn fragrant incense on the altar every morning when he tends the lamps.
8 He must burn incense again when he lights the lamps at twilight so incense will burn regularly before the LORD for the generations to come.
9 Do not offer on this altar any other incense or any burnt offering or grain offering, and do not pour a drink offering on it.
10 Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns. This annual atonement must be made with the blood of the atoning sin offering for the generations to come. It is most holy to the LORD.”
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Exodus 20:26

26 And do not go up to my altar on steps, or your private parts may be exposed.’
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Numbers 23:1

1 Balaam said, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
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Hosea 8:11

11 “Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning.
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Exodus 39:39

39 the bronze altar with its bronze grating, its poles and all its utensils; the basin with its stand;
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Leviticus 4:7

7 The priest shall then put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense that is before the LORD in the tent of meeting. The rest of the bull’s blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
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Exodus 20:24

24 “ ‘Make an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you.
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Exodus 27:1

1 “Build an altar of acacia wood, three cubits high; it is to be square, five cubits long and five cubits wide.
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1 Kings 6:22

22 So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
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Exodus 21:14

14 But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.
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Numbers 4:11

11 “Over the gold altar they are to spread a blue cloth and cover that with the durable leather and put the poles in place.
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Amos 3:14

14 “On the day I punish Israel for her sins, I will destroy the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.
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