the altar: 2 Chronicles 4:1
for fear: Ezra 4:11-16, Ezra 8:21-22; Psalms 27:1-2, Psalms 56:2-4
even burnt: Exodus 29:38-42; Numbers 28:2-8
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Ezra 3:3
Ezra 3:3
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