Make an altar of earth for me, and on it sacrifice your sheep and your cattle as offerings to be completely burned and as fellowship offerings. In every place that I set aside for you to worship me, I will come to you and bless you.

If you make an altar of stone for me, do not build it out of cut stones, because when you use a chisel on stones, you make them unfit for my use.

Build a well-constructed altar to the LORD your God on top of this mound. Then take the second bull and burn it whole as an offering, using for firewood the symbol of Asherah you have cut down."

Early the next morning the people got up and built an altar there. They offered fellowship sacrifices and burned some sacrifices whole.

Samuel killed a young lamb and burned it whole as a sacrifice to the LORD. Then he prayed to the LORD to help Israel, and the LORD answered his prayer.

Then he would go back to his home in Ramah, where also he would serve as judge. In Ramah he built an altar to the LORD.

Well, whatever you do, whether you eat or drink, do it all for God's glory.

Everything you do or say, then, should be done in the name of the Lord Jesus, as you give thanks through him to God the Father.