Furthermore (A)Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was in front of the house of the Lord; for there he offered burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat.

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10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat. 11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp. 12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might [a]sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.

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  1. Hebrews 13:12 set apart

14 Moreover all the leaders of the priests and the people transgressed more and more, according to all the abominations of the nations, and defiled the house of the Lord which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.

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Furnishings of the Temple(A)

Moreover he made (B)a bronze altar: twenty cubits was its length, twenty cubits its width, and ten cubits its height.

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64 On (A)the same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was in front of the house of the Lord; for there he offered burnt offerings, grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the (B)bronze altar that was before the Lord was too small to receive the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.

65 At that time Solomon held (C)a feast, and all Israel with him, a great assembly from (D)the entrance of Hamath to (E)the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, (F)seven days and seven more days—fourteen days. 66 (G)On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they [a]blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the good that the Lord had done for His servant David, and for Israel His people.

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  1. 1 Kings 8:66 thanked

37 “Tell Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, to pick up the censers out of the blaze, for (A)they are holy, and scatter the fire some distance away. 38 The censers of (B)these men who sinned [a]against their own souls, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar. Because they presented them before the Lord, therefore they are holy; (C)and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”

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  1. Numbers 16:38 Or at the cost of their own lives

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