20 Bible Verses About Altars

Here are 20 Bible verses about altars from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible (King James Version), sorted from most to least relevant.

Malachi 1:10 KJV

Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

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Genesis 12:7 KJV

And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

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Genesis 33:20 KJV

And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.

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Genesis 26:25 KJV

And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.

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Genesis 22:9 KJV

And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

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2 Samuel 24:25 KJV

And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

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Hosea 8:11 KJV

Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

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Genesis 35:7 KJV

And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

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Judges 6:25 KJV

And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:

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Genesis 8:21 KJV

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

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Genesis 8:20 KJV

And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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Exodus 24:4 KJV

And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

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Hebrews 13:10 KJV

We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.

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Numbers 15:14 KJV

And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.

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Matthew 5:23-24 KJV

Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

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Romans 12:1 KJV

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

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1 Corinthians 9:13 KJV

Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

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1 Kings 18:16 KJV

So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

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1 Samuel 14:35 KJV

And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD.

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Genesis 13:18 KJV

Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.

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