God’s Covenant with Noah

20 Then Noah ^obuilt an altar to the Lord and took some of every ^pclean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

15 And Moses ^jbuilt an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner,

Balaam’s First Oracle

1 And Balaam said to Balak, ^l“Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here ^mseven bulls and seven rams.”

5 And there you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, ^wan altar of stones. ^xYou shall wield no iron tool on them;

Joshua Renews the Covenant

30 ^dAt that time Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,

24 Then Gideon ^bbuilt an altar there to the Lord and called it, The Lord Is Peace. ^cTo this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.

17 Then he would return to Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he judged Israel. And he built there an altar to the Lord.

David Builds an Altar

18 ^sAnd Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, raise an altar to the Lord on the ^tthreshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

David Builds an Altar

18 ^wNow the angel of the Lord had commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and raise an altar to the Lord on the ^xthreshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

5 Moreover, the ^jbronze altar that ^kBezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, ^lhad made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord. And Solomon and the assembly sought it¹ out.

2 Then arose ^uJeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the ^valtar of the God of Israel, to offer ^wburnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.