1 Samuel 14:35

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then Saul built an altar for the LORD; it was the first time he had built an altar for the LORD.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 7:17 : 17 Then he would return to Ramah, because his home was there. He also judged Israel there and built an altar to the LORD there.
  • Hos 8:14 : 14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built royal palaces, and Judah has built many fortified cities. But I will send fire on their cities; it will consume their royal citadels.
  • 2 Tim 3:5 : 5 They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these.
  • Judg 21:4 : 4 The next morning the people got up early and built an altar there. They offered up burnt sacrifices and tokens of peace.
  • 1 Sam 7:9 : 9 So Samuel took a nursing lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the LORD. Samuel cried out to the LORD on Israel’s behalf, and the LORD answered him.
  • 1 Sam 7:12 : 12 Samuel took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying,“Up to here the LORD has helped us.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Chr 22:1
    73%

    1David then said,“This is the place where the temple of the LORD God will be, along with the altar for burnt sacrifices for Israel.”

  • 1 Sam 13:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9So Saul said,“Bring me the burnt offering and the peace offerings.” Then he offered a burnt offering.

    10Just when he had finished offering the burnt offering, Samuel appeared on the scene. Saul went out to meet him and to greet him.

  • 1 Sam 11:15
    71%

    15So all the people went to Gilgal, where they established Saul as king in the LORD’s presence. They offered up peace offerings there in the LORD’s presence. Saul and all the Israelites were very happy.

  • Gen 13:4
    71%

    4This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 21:26
    71%

    26David built there an altar to the LORD and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. He called out to the LORD, and the LORD responded by sending fire from the sky and consuming the burnt sacrifice on the altar.

  • 1 Sam 15:30-31
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    70%

    30Saul again replied,“I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel. Go back with me so I may worship the LORD your God.”

    31So Samuel followed Saul back, and Saul worshiped the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 14:34
    70%

    34Then Saul said,“Scatter out among the army and say to them,‘Each of you bring to me your ox and sheep and slaughter them in this spot and eat. But don’t sin against the LORD by eating the blood.” So that night each one brought his ox and slaughtered it there.

  • 1 Sam 15:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed,“Saul has gone to Carmel where he is setting up a monument for himself.” Then Samuel left and went down to Gilgal.

    13When Samuel came to Saul, Saul said to him,“May the LORD bless you! I have fulfilled the LORD’s orders.”

  • 2 Chr 33:16
    69%

    16He erected the altar of the LORD and offered on it peace offerings and thank offerings. He told the people of Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

  • 1 Sam 14:36
    69%

    36Saul said,“Let’s go down after the Philistines at night; we will rout them until the break of day. We won’t leave any of them alive!” They replied,“Do whatever seems best to you.” But the priest said,“Let’s approach God here.”

  • 2 Chr 8:12
    69%

    12Then Solomon offered burnt sacrifices to the LORD on the altar of the LORD which he had built in front of the temple’s porch.

  • 2 Chr 33:4-5
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    68%

    4He built altars in the LORD’s temple, about which the LORD had said,“Jerusalem will be my permanent home.”

    5In the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

  • Josh 8:30
    68%

    30Covenant Renewal Then Joshua built an altar for the LORD God of Israel on Mount Ebal,

  • Deut 27:6
    68%

    6You must build the altar of the LORD your God with whole stones and offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.

  • 1 Sam 15:1
    68%

    1Saul Is Rejected as King Then Samuel said to Saul,“I was the one the LORD sent to anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now listen to what the LORD says.

  • 1 Chr 21:28-29
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    68%

    28At that time, when David saw that the LORD responded to him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.

    29Now the LORD’s tabernacle(which Moses had made in the wilderness) and the altar for burnt sacrifices were at that time at the worship center in Gibeon.

  • Josh 22:26
    68%

    26So we decided to build this altar, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices,

  • Josh 22:23
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    23If we have built an altar for ourselves to turn back from following the LORD by making burnt sacrifices and grain offerings on it, or by offering tokens of peace on it, the LORD himself will punish us.

  • 1 Sam 15:15
    67%

    15Saul said,“They were brought from the Amalekites; the army spared the best of the flocks and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD our God. But everything else we slaughtered.”

  • 1 Sam 14:18
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    18So Saul said to Ahijah,“Bring near the ephod,” for he was at that time wearing the ephod in front of the Israelites.

  • 2 Kgs 21:4-5
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    4He built altars in the LORD’s temple, about which the LORD had said,“Jerusalem will be my home.”

    5In the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

  • 2 Chr 1:5-6
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    67%

    5But the bronze altar made by Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, was in front of the LORD’s tabernacle. Solomon and the entire assembly prayed to him there.)

    6Solomon went up to the bronze altar before the LORD which was at the meeting tent, and he offered up a thousand burnt sacrifices.

  • 2 Kgs 16:12-13
    2 verses
    67%

    12When the king arrived back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and offered a sacrifice on it.

    13He offered his burnt sacrifice and his grain offering. He poured out his libation and sprinkled the blood from his peace offerings on the altar.

  • 1 Kgs 18:32
    67%

    32With the stones he constructed an altar for the LORD. Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs of seed.

  • Judg 6:26
    67%

    26Then build an altar for the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold according to the proper pattern. Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt sacrifice on the wood from the Asherah pole that you cut down.”

  • 1 Kgs 16:32
    67%

    32He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal he had built in Samaria.

  • 1 Sam 7:17
    67%

    17Then he would return to Ramah, because his home was there. He also judged Israel there and built an altar to the LORD there.

  • 1 Chr 21:22
    66%

    22David said to Ornan,“Sell me the threshing floor so I can build on it an altar for the LORD– I’ll pay top price– so that the plague may be removed from the people.”

  • 2 Sam 24:25
    66%

    25Then David built an altar for the LORD there and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. And the LORD accepted prayers for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.

  • 2 Chr 3:1
    66%

    1The Building of the Temple Solomon began building the LORD’s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • Exod 38:1
    66%

    1The Making of the Altar for the Burnt Offering He made the altar for the burnt offering of acacia wood seven feet six inches long and seven feet six inches wide– it was square– and its height was four feet six inches.

  • 1 Sam 14:38
    66%

    38Then Saul said,“All you leaders of the army come here. Find out how this sin occurred today.

  • 1 Sam 13:12
    66%

    12I thought,‘Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal and I have not sought the LORD’s favor.’ So I felt obligated to offer the burnt offering.”

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    66%

    2Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the LORD.

  • Josh 22:16
    66%

    16“The entire community of the LORD says,‘Why have you disobeyed the God of Israel by turning back today from following the LORD? You built an altar for yourselves and have rebelled today against the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 3:4
    66%

    4The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. Solomon would offer up a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.

  • 2 Sam 24:21
    65%

    21Araunah said,“Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David replied,“To buy from you the threshing floor so I can build an altar for the LORD, so that the plague may be removed from the people.”

  • Josh 22:29
    65%

    29Far be it from us to rebel against the LORD by turning back today from following after the LORD by building an altar for burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace aside from the altar of the LORD our God located in front of his dwelling place!”

  • Judg 6:24
    65%

    24Gideon built an altar for the LORD there, and named it“The LORD is on friendly terms with me.” To this day it is still there in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.