They set up the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the LORD--both the morning and evening burnt offerings--even though they feared the people of the land.
Cross References
Numbers 28:2"Command the Israelites and say to them: See that you present to Me at its appointed time the food for My offerings by fire, as a pleasing aroma to Me.
Ezra 4:4Then the people of the land set out to discourage the people of Judah and make them afraid to build.
Treasury of Scripture
And they set the altar on his bases; for fear was on them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon to the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
the altar
2 Chronicles 4:1
Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
for fear
Ezra 4:11-16
This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time…
Ezra 8:21,22
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance…
Psalm 27:1,2
A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? …
even burnt
Exodus 29:38-42
Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually…
Numbers 28:2-8
Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season…
