Add parallel Print Page Options

15 The top of the altar, the hearth, rises another 7 feet higher, with a horn rising up from each of the four corners.

Read full chapter

Make horns for each of its four corners so that the horns and altar are all one piece. Overlay the altar with bronze.

Read full chapter

27 The Lord is God, shining upon us.
    Take the sacrifice and bind it with cords on the altar.

Read full chapter

His sons brought him the blood, and he dipped his finger in it and put it on the horns of the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

Read full chapter

All the nations fighting against Jerusalem[a]
    will vanish like a dream!
Those who are attacking her walls
    will vanish like a vision in the night.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 29:7 Hebrew Ariel.

A Message about Jerusalem

29 “What sorrow awaits Ariel,[a] the City of David.
    Year after year you celebrate your feasts.
Yet I will bring disaster upon you,
    and there will be much weeping and sorrow.
For Jerusalem will become what her name Ariel means—
    an altar covered with blood.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 29:1 Ariel sounds like a Hebrew term that means “hearth” or “altar.”

28 Joab had not joined Absalom’s earlier rebellion, but he had joined Adonijah’s rebellion. So when Joab heard about Adonijah’s death, he ran to the sacred tent of the Lord and grabbed on to the horns of the altar.

Read full chapter

Bible Gateway Recommends