Moreover, you are to build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them. Cross References Exodus 20:25 Now if you make an altar of stones for Me, you must not build it with stones shaped by tools; for if you use a chisel on it, you will defile it. Deuteronomy 27:6 You shall build the altar of the LORD your God with uncut stones and offer upon it burnt offerings to the LORD your God. Joshua 8:31 just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: "an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool has been used." And on it they offered burnt offerings to the LORD, and they sacrificed peace offerings. 1 Kings 6:7 The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built. Treasury of Scripture And there shall you build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones: you shall not lift up any iron tool on them. And there Exodus 24:4 Joshua 8:30,31 1 Kings 18:31,32 thou shalt not Exodus 20:25 |