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The Altar and its utensils were considered to be sacred, and the priests had to vest and wash their hands before touching them—even so much as removing the ashes from the altar. According to the Bible, the fire on the altar was lit directly by the hand of God and was not permitted to go out (Leviticus 6:12–13). No strange fire could be ...
Molten Sea, illustration in the Holman Bible, 1890. According to the Hebrew Bible, the "Molten or Brazen Sea" (ים מוצק "cast metal sea") was a large basin in the Temple for ablution of the priests. It is described in 1 Kings 7:23–26 and 2 Chronicles 4:2–5. According to the Bible, it stood in the south-eastern corner of the inner court.
The bamah of Megiddo. From the Hebrew Bible and from existing remains a good idea may be formed of the appearance of such a place of worship. It was often on the hill above the town, as at Ramah (1 Samuel 9:12–14); there was a stele (), the seat of the deity, and a Asherah pole (named after the goddess Asherah), which marked the place as sacred and was itself an object of worship; there was ...
The Hebrew Bible says that the First Temple was built by King Solomon, [11] completed in 957 BCE. [12] According to the Book of Deuteronomy, as the sole place of Israelite korban (sacrifice), [13] the Temple replaced the Tabernacle constructed in the Sinai under the auspices of Moses, as well as local sanctuaries, and altars in the hills. [14]
The Iron Age I Structure on Mt. Ebal, [1] [2] also known as the Mount Ebal site, [1] Mount Ebal's Altar, and Joshua's Altar, [3] [4] is an archeological site dated to the Iron Age I, located on Mount Ebal, West Bank. [1] The Mount Ebal site was discovered by Israeli archaeologist Adam Zertal during the Manasseh Hill Country Survey in 1980. [1]
The term movable altar or portable altar is now used of a full-scale structural altar, with or without an inserted altar stone, that can be moved. [20] (298) Movable altars include the free-standing wooden tables without altar stone, placed in the choir away from the east wall, favoured by churches in the Reformed tradition.
The biblical designation Mount of Corruption, or in Hebrew Har HaMashchit (I Kings 11:7–8), derives from the idol worship there, begun by King Solomon building altars to the gods of his Moabite and Ammonite wives on the southern peak, "on the mountain which is before (east of) Jerusalem" (1 Kings 11:7), just outside the limits of the holy city.
According to the closing verses of the second book of Chronicles and the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, when the Jewish exiles returned to Jerusalem following a decree from Cyrus the Great (Ezra 1:1–4, 2 Chronicles 36:22–23), construction started at the original site of the altar of Solomon's Temple. [1]
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