The altar split open and the ashes ¹  fell from the altar to the ground, ²  in fulfillment of the sign the prophet had announced with the Lord’s authority. ³ 

When King Ahaz went to meet with King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria in Damascus, he saw the altar there. ¹  King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a drawing of the altar and a blueprint for its design. ² 

David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. ¹  He called out to the Lord, and the Lord ²  responded by sending fire from the sky and consuming the burnt sacrifice on the altar.

“And these are the measurements of the altar: ¹  Its base ²  is 1¾ feet ³  high, ⁴  and 1¾ feet ⁵  wide, and its border nine inches ⁶  on its edge. This is to be the height ⁷  of the altar.

This was the place where he had first built the altar, ¹  and there Abram worshiped the Lord. ² 

And you must not go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness is not exposed.’ ¹ 

You are to make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you are to overlay them with bronze.

and you are to kill the ram and take its blood and splash it all around on the altar.

“Now this is what you are to prepare ¹  on the altar every day continually: two lambs a year old.

¹ “You are to make an altar for burning incense; ²  you are to make it of ³  acacia wood. ⁴ 

He made a grating for the altar, a network of bronze under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.

the bronze altar and its bronze grating, its poles, and all its utensils; the large basin with its pedestal;

You are to put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it. ¹ 

and the sons of Aaron, the priest, ¹  must put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.

Then the priest must offer it up in smoke on the altar as a food gift to the Lord. ¹ 

“‘Then the priest ¹  must take all its fat ²  and offer the fat ³  up in smoke on the altar.

they ¹  set those on the breasts and he offered the fat parts up in smoke on the altar.

“Then he is to offer up the fat of the sin offering ¹  in smoke on the altar,

Also, they must take away the ashes from the altar ¹  and spread a purple cloth over it.

So Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.