Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'altar' occurs 393 times in the standard works.

238 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'altar' in the standard works and contain 60.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 100 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lev. 1:5-17 (13 in 13 verses)

Lev. 1:7-2:2 (13 in 13 verses)


1 Kgs. 12:32-13:5 (12 in 7 verses)

 12:32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places which he had made.

 12:33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.

 13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the Lord unto Beth-el: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.

 13:2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.

 13:3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the Lord hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.

 13:4 And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Beth-el, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.

 13:5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.




2 Kgs. 16:10-15 (11 in 6 verses)

Lev. 6:9-15 (8 in 7 verses)

Lev. 9:7-14 (8 in 8 verses)

2 Chr. 29:18-24 (7 in 7 verses)

Abr. 1:8-12 (6 in 5 verses)

Ex. 40:5-10 (6 in 6 verses)

Lev. 4:30-35 (6 in 6 verses)

Lev. 8:11-16 (6 in 6 verses)

Ezek. 43:13-18 (6 in 6 verses)

Ex. 29:36-38 (5 in 3 verses)

Judg. 6:24-28 (5 in 5 verses)

Judg. 6:28-32 (5 in 5 verses)

Ex. 27:5-7 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:15-17 (4 in 3 verses)

Josh. 22:26-29 (4 in 4 verses)

Ex. 29:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

Lev. 4:18-19 (3 in 2 verses)

Lev. 4:25-26 (3 in 2 verses)

Num. 7:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 27:5-6 (3 in 2 verses)

Josh. 22:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 20:24-26 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 16:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 18:30-32 (3 in 3 verses)

Matt. 23:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 8:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 8:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 22:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 27:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 38:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 38:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 4:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 5:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 12:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 22:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 13:20 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 14:35 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 9:25 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 6:49 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 21:26 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 9:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 2:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 12:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 29:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 30:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 31:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 35:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 38:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 39:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 40:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 40:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 2:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 9:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 4:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 5:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 16:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 8:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 1:50-51 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 2:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 3:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 40:46-47 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 43:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 5:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 355 54 409
Gen. 13 0 13
Ex. 59 1 60
Lev. 87 0 87
Num. 24 5 29
Deut. 8 2 10
Josh. 15 0 15
Judg. 11 1 12
1 Sam. 5 0 5
2 Sam. 3 0 3
1 Kgs. 34 2 36
2 Kgs. 19 9 28
1 Chr. 10 0 10
2 Chr. 25 15 40
Ezra 3 0 3
Neh. 1 0 1
Ps. 4 1 5
Isa. 6 3 9
Jer. 0 4 4
Lam. 1 0 1
Ezek. 17 4 21
Hosea 0 6 6
Joel 2 0 2
Amos 3 1 4
Zech. 2 0 2
Mal. 3 0 3
NT 23 1 24
BM 4 0 4
DC 1 0 1
PGP 10 0 10
TOTAL 393 55 448

1 Kgs. 1:50
And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

1 Kgs. 1:51
And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword.

1 Kgs. 1:53
So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto him, Go to thine house.

1 Kgs. 2:28
Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the Lord, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

1 Kgs. 2:29
And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the Lord; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.

1 Kgs. 3:4
And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

1 Kgs. 6:20
And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.

1 Kgs. 6:22
And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.

1 Kgs. 7:48
And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the Lord: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,

1 Kgs. 8:22
And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:

1 Kgs. 8:31
If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:

1 Kgs. 8:54
And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.

1 Kgs. 8:64
The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.

1 Kgs. 9:25
And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the Lord, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the Lord. So he finished the house.

1 Kgs. 12:32
And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places which he had made.

1 Kgs. 12:33
So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.

1 Kgs. 13:1
And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the Lord unto Beth-el: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.

1 Kgs. 13:2
And he cried against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.

1 Kgs. 13:3
And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the Lord hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.

1 Kgs. 13:4
And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Beth-el, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.

1 Kgs. 13:5
The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.

1 Kgs. 13:32
For the saying which he cried by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

1 Kgs. 16:32
And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

1 Kgs. 18:26
And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.

1 Kgs. 18:30
And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down.

1 Kgs. 18:32
And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

1 Kgs. 18:35
And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

1 Kgs. 19:10
And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

1 Kgs. 19:14
And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.