49 Verses About Altars from 14 Books

Exodus 34:13
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

Numbers 3:31
And their charge [shall be] the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the
vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.

Numbers 23:1
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen
and seven rams.

Numbers 23:4
And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered
upon [every] altar a bullock and a ram.

Numbers 23:14
And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and
offered a bullock and a ram on [every] altar.

Numbers 23:29
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks
and seven rams.

Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images,
and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

Deuteronomy 12:3
And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire;
and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of
that place.

Judges 2:2
And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their
altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?

Kings-1 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.

Kings-1 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.

Kings-2 11:18
And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and
his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the
altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.

Kings-2 18:22
But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: [is] not that he, whose high places and
whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall
worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

Kings-2 21:3
For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared
up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host
of heaven, and served them.

Kings-2 21:4
And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I
put my name.

Kings-2 21:5
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

Kings-2 23:12
And the altars that [were] on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah
had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the
LORD, did the king beat down, and brake [them] down from thence, and cast the dust of
them into the brook Kidron.

Kings-2 23:20
And he slew all the priests of the high places that [were] there upon the altars, and burned
men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

Chronicles-2 14:3
For he took away the altars of the strange [gods], and the high places, and brake down the
images, and cut down the groves:

Chronicles-2 23:17
Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his
images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

Chronicles-2 28:24
And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of
the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in
every corner of Jerusalem.

Chronicles-2 30:14
And they arose and took away the altars that [were] in Jerusalem, and all the altars for
incense took they away, and cast [them] into the brook Kidron.

Chronicles-2 31:1
Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah,
and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and
the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly
destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into
their own cities.

Chronicles-2 32:12
Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah
and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?

Chronicles-2 33:3
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared
up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served
them.

Chronicles-2 33:4
Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem
shall my name be for ever.

Chronicles-2 33:5
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

Chronicles-2 33:15
And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the
altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast
[them] out of the city.

Chronicles-2 34:4
And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that [were] on high
above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he
brake in pieces, and made dust [of them], and strowed [it] upon the graves of them that had
sacrificed unto them.

Chronicles-2 34:5
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

Chronicles-2 34:7
And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images
into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to
Jerusalem.

Psalms 84:3
Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay
her young, [even] thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

Isaiah 17:8
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect [that] which
his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
Isaiah 36:7
But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: [is it] not he, whose high places and
whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship
before this altar?

Isaiah 65:3
A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and
burneth incense upon altars of brick;

Jeremiah 11:13
For [according to] the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and [according to] the
number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to [that] shameful thing, [even] altars
to burn incense unto Baal.

Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Judah [is] written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: [it is]
graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

Jeremiah 17:2
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high
hills.

Ezekiel 6:4
And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your
slain [men] before your idols.

Ezekiel 6:5
And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter
your bones round about your altars.

Ezekiel 6:6
In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate;
that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and
cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

Ezekiel 6:13
Then shall ye know that I [am] the LORD, when their slain [men] shall be among their idols
round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under
every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all
their idols.

Hosea 8:11
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

Hosea 10:1
Israel [is] an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of
his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made
goodly images.

Hosea 10:2
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he
shall spoil their images.

Hosea 10:8
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle
shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills,
Fall on us.

Hosea 12:11
[Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea,
their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

Amos 3:14
That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars
of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.

Romans 11:3
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and
they seek my life.