The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . urn the pieces of flesh or to take themoff the fire (see 1 Sam. ii: 13) ; (5) machthoth(firepans, Auth. Vers.; rb trvpelov, Sept.); thesame word is elsewhere translated censers ( 117) ; but in Exod. xxv :38. snuff-dishes. (b) Solomons Temple. The altar of burnt-offering in Solomons temple was of much larger ALTAR 90 ALTARS, FORMS OF dimensions, twenty cubits in length and breadth,
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . urn the pieces of flesh or to take themoff the fire (see 1 Sam. ii: 13) ; (5) machthoth(firepans, Auth. Vers.; rb trvpelov, Sept.); thesame word is elsewhere translated censers ( 117) ; but in Exod. xxv :38. snuff-dishes. (b) Solomons Temple. The altar of burnt-offering in Solomons temple was of much larger ALTAR 90 ALTARS, FORMS OF dimensions, twenty cubits in length and breadth,and ten in height (2 Chron. iv:i), and was madeentirely of brass. It is said of Asa that he re-newed—that is, either repaired (in which sense theword is evidently used in 2 Chron. xxiv:4) orreconsecrated the altar of the Lord that was be-fore the porch of the Lord (2 Chron. xv :8). Thisaltar was removed by king Ahaz (2 Kings xvi:14) ; it was cleansed by Hezekiah, and in thelatter part of Manassehs reign was rebuilt. (c) In the Second Temple. Of the altar ofburnt offering in the second temple the canonicalscriptures give us no information excepting thatit was erected before the foundations of the tem-. Another Form of Altar of Burnt Offering. pie were laid (Ezra iii :3, 6) on the same placewhere it had formerly been built. From theApocrypha, however, we may infer that it wasmade, not of brass, but of unhewn stone. (d) In Herods Temple. The altar of burntoffering erected by Herod is thus described byJosephus: Before this temple stood the altar,fifteen cubits high, and equal both in length andbreadth, each of which dimensions was fifty figure it was built in was a square, and ithad corners like horns, and the passage up to itwas by an insensible acclivity from the was formed without any iron tool, nor did anyiron tool so much as touch it at any time. Thedimensions of this altar, however, are differentlystated in the Mishna. On the south side wasan inclined p
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