The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . ^>, miz-bakh han-nekh-sheth, Exod. xxxix:3g; table of the Lord, Mai. 1:7, 12). (a) Altar of Burnt Offering, belonging to thetabernacle, was a hollow square, five cubits inlength and breadth, and three cubits in heightIt was made of Shittim-wood (see Shittim), and. Altar of Burnt Offering and Altar of Incense. afterwards used by Cain and Abel on the iden-tical spot where Abraham prepar
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . ^>, miz-bakh han-nekh-sheth, Exod. xxxix:3g; table of the Lord, Mai. 1:7, 12). (a) Altar of Burnt Offering, belonging to thetabernacle, was a hollow square, five cubits inlength and breadth, and three cubits in heightIt was made of Shittim-wood (see Shittim), and. Altar of Burnt Offering and Altar of Incense. afterwards used by Cain and Abel on the iden-tical spot where Abraham prepared to offer upIsaac (Zohar, In Gen. fol. 51,3,4; Targum, Jona-than, Gen. viii:2o). (2) Patriarchal. Mention is made of altarserected by Abraham (Gen. xii:7; xiii:4; xxii :g) ;by Isaac ,(xxvi:2s) ; by Jacob (xxxiii:20; xxxv:1, 3) ; by Moses (Exod. xvii:i5). (3) Hebrew. After the giving of the law, theIsraelites were commanded to make an altar ofearth. They were also permitted to employ stones,but no iron tool was to be applied to them. Thishas been generally understood as an interdictionof sculpture, in order to guard against a viola-tion of the second commandment. Altars werefrequently built on high places, the word beingused not only for the elevated spots, but for thesacrificial structures upon them. Thus Solomonbuilt an high place for Chemosh (1 Kings xi:7),and Josiah brake down and burnt the high place,and stamped it small to powder (2 Kings xxiii • This prac
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