ALTAR OF INCENSE. This was a small table of Shittim Wood, covered with Exod. xxx. 1, 2, 3.plates of Gold, of one cubit in length, another in width, and two in height. At the four corners of it were four kinds of horns, and all round a little border or crown over it. Every morning and evening the Priest in waiting for that week, and appointed by lot for this office, offered incense of a particular composition upon this Altar; and to this end entred with the smoaking Censer filled with fire from the Altar of Burnt-Offerings into the Holy, where this Altar was fixed over-against the Shew-bread Table. This was the Altar which was hidden by Jeremiah before the Captivity. 2 Macc. ii. 5, 6.The Priest having placed the Censer on it, retired out of the Holy.
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