In its simplest form the altar is a small pile, with a square or circular surface, made of stone or wood. Its features vary according to its purpose. The altar of libation usually has a drain for the liquid, and so does the altar of bloody sacrifice; the altar of burnt offering (...
SEE SACRIFICE. I. Pagan. — There is a strong probability that some of those ancient monuments of unhewn stone, usually called Druidical remains, which are found in all parts of the world, were derived from the altars of primitive times. SEE STONE. These are various in their forms, and ...
The Hebrew word for altar is mizbeah [;eBzim], from a verbal root meaning "to slaughter." Greek renders this word as thusiasterion [qusiasthvrion], "a place of sacrifice." In the developed temple ritual, the same word is used for both the altar of holocausts and the altar of ...
7). In Deut. xii. the liberty of building altars in more than one place is withdrawn, but the form of the Altar which is favored is not specified. In the period covered by the books of Judges and Samuel sacrifice was offered in many places as in the book of Genesis; especially where...
希伯来书 13:10 — The New King James Version (NKJV)10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat. 希伯来书 13:10 — New Century Version (NCV)10 We have a sacrifice, but the priests who serve in the Holy Tent cannot eat from it. ...
The brazen, or bronze altar was a key element of the tabernacle in the wilderness, a place where the ancient Israelites sacrificed animals to atone for their
3When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns,the people assembledtogether as one in Jerusalem.2Then Joshuason of Jozadakand his fellow priests and Zerubbabel son of Shealtieland his associates began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offer...
We see this in the Bible. Noah built an altar to God (Gen.8:20), as did Abraham (Gen.12:8) and Solomon (2 Chron. 4:1). The central feature of the Temple was the altar of sacrifice. In the upper room the table used at the Last Supper becomes an altar. In Revelation the heav...
“sacrifice and offering” are made; however, itsCapstone captures the majority of our attention as the Divine Platform raised to the heavens and truly exemplary of the immensity of that Altar unto the LORD, for the “Altar” in Sacred Canon is likewise a WITNESS in the Land of Egypt(cf...
9 Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon. 10 And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make...