Altar and offering-place imagery uses the altar, its horns, fire, and sacrificial setting to picture worship, consecration, atonement, mercy, judgment, or corrupted worship.
Altar and offering-place imagery uses the altar, its horns, fire, and sacrificial setting to picture worship, consecration, atonement, mercy, judgment, or corrupted worship.
A sanctuary-access motif in which the altar functions as the visible place of approach, offering, covenant worship, blood application, refuge, cleansing, or judgment before God.
These examples show how Altar and Offering-Place Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
Noah builded an altar unto the LORD
The altar marks grateful worship after judgment and deliverance.
there builded he an altar unto the LORD
Abram’s altar expresses covenant worship and public dependence on the LORD.
thou shalt make an altar... and thou shalt make the horns of it
The altar’s form marks it as a sacred site of offering and approach.
whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy
The altar imagery stresses consecration and holy contact.
he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down
Elijah’s repaired altar pictures restored covenant worship in a time of apostasy.
Then will I go unto the altar of God
The altar represents joyful return to worship and communion with God.
a live coal... from off the altar
The altar coal becomes an image of cleansing and commissioned service.
if thou bring thy gift to the altar
The altar scene teaches that worship must not be separated from reconciliation.
We have an altar
The altar language points to access and sacrifice fulfilled in Christ.
under the altar the souls of them that were slain
The altar imagery presents martyrdom as lives laid before God and awaiting vindication.
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