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Son of man, he told me, when the altar is set up, ready for burnt-sacrifice and for blood-sprinkling, these ceremonies the Lord God would have thee observe. (Ezekiel 43, 18)
Horns of the altar, and the four corners of its base, and the rim round about it, thou shalt smear with the victim’s blood, to cleanse them and purge them of fault, (Ezekiel 43, 20)
Next day, the transgression-victim shall be a male kid, without blemish; with this, as with the calf, the altar must be purged; (Ezekiel 43, 22)
purged and cleansed and hallowed the altar must be for seven days, (Ezekiel 43, 26)
Door-posts of the temple, corners of the altar’s base, door-posts of the inner court, the priest shall smear with blood of the transgression-victim. (Ezekiel 45, 19)
And last, he took me to the door of the temple itself, and shewed me where a stream of water flowed eastwards from beneath the threshold of it. Eastward the temple looked, and eastward these waters flowed, somewhat to the temple’s right, so as to pass by the southern side of the altar. (Ezekiel 47, 1)
Yet I it was, did she but know it, that bread and wine and oil gave her, gave her all the silver and gold she squandered on Baal. (Hosea 2, 8)
Spoke Ephraim,✻ all Israel trembled at his word; how else came they, for Baal’s worship, to barter away life itself? (Hosea 13, 1)
Mourn, priests, and lament; in mourners’ garb go about your work at the altar; ministers of God, to his presence betake you, and there, in sackcloth, keep vigil; your God’s house, that offering of bread and wine has none! (Joel 1, 13)
Hark how the priests, that wait upon the Lord, make lament between porch and altar, crying aloud: Spare thy people, Lord, spare them; thy chosen people, do not put them to the shame of obeying heathen masters! Wilt thou let the Gentiles ask, What has become of their God? (Joel 2, 17)
See where they lie feasting beside the altar, at the very shrine of their God, no cloak there but is some borrower’s pledge, no stoup of wine but is some debtor’s forfeit! (Amos 2, 8)
And now I saw the Lord standing above the altar; Smite column there, he cried, lintel there dislodge, nest of ill-gotten gains!✻ To the last man, the sword must take its toll; refuge shall be none. Flee they, never a fugitive shall escape; (Amos 9, 1)
