You are to make the altar hollow, out of boards. Just as it was shown you ¹  on the mountain, so they must make it. ² 

He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made the altar ¹  hollow, out of boards.

Then the army marched out to the field to fight against Israel. The battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.

He finished building the temple ¹  and covered it ²  with rafters ³  and boards made of cedar. ⁴ 

The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible. ¹ 

They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

In the most holy place he made two images of cherubim and plated them with gold.

There will be so few trees left in his forest, a child will be able to count them. ¹ 

The thickets of the forest will be chopped down with an ax, and mighty Lebanon will fall. ¹ 

All you wild animals in the fields, come and devour, all you wild animals in the forest!

Their children are always thinking about ¹  their ²  altars and their sacred poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, ³  set up beside the green trees on the high hills

He cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him ¹  a tree. ²  When Moses ³  threw it into the water, the water became safe to drink. There the Lord ⁴  made for them ⁵  a binding ordinance, ⁶  and there he tested ⁷  them.

Now, look, I have made every effort to supply what is needed to build the Lord’s temple. ¹  I have stored up 100,000 talents ²  of gold, 1,000,000 ³  talents of silver, and so much bronze and iron it cannot be weighed, as well as wood and stones. Feel free to add more!

and its five posts and their hooks. He overlaid their tops ¹  and their bands with gold, but their five bases were bronze. ² 

The battle there was spread out over the whole area, and the forest consumed more soldiers than the sword devoured that day.

He built an extension all around the temple; it was seven and a half feet high ¹  and it was attached to the temple by cedar beams.

He built the inner courtyard with three rows of chiseled stones and a row of cedar beams.

He also made a throne room, called “The Hall of Judgment,” where he made judicial decisions. ¹  It was paneled with cedar from the floor to the rafters. ² 

The king made silver as plentiful ¹  in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was ²  as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the lowlands. ³ 

They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.