1 Kings 3:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the king went to Gibeon to make an offering there, because that was the chief high place: it was Solomon's way to make a thousand burned offerings on that altar.

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  • 1 Chr 16:39 : 39 And Zadok the priest, with his brothers the priests, before the House of the Lord in the high place at Gibeon;
  • 1 Chr 21:29 : 29 For the House of the Lord, which Moses had made in the waste land, and the altar of burned offerings, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
  • 2 Chr 1:3 : 3 Then Solomon, and all the men of Israel with him, went to the high place at Gibeon, because the Tent of meeting of God, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had made in the waste land, was there.
  • 2 Chr 1:6-9 : 6 And Solomon went up there to the brass altar before the Lord at the Tent of meeting, offering on it a thousand burned offerings. 7 In that night God came to Solomon in a vision, and said to him, Say what I am to give you. 8 And Solomon said to God, Great was your mercy to David my father, and you have made me king in his place. 9 Now, O Lord God, let your word to David my father come true; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in number. 10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, so that I may go out and come in before this people: for who is able to be the judge of this great people of yours? 11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you did not make request for money, property, or honour, or for the destruction of your haters, or for long life; but you have made request for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, so that you may be the judge of my people over whom I have made you king: 12 Wisdom and knowledge are given to you; and I will give you wealth and honour, such as no king has had before you or ever will have after you.
  • 2 Chr 7:5 : 5 King Solomon made an offering of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people kept the feast of the opening of the house of God.
  • 2 Chr 29:32-35 : 32 The number of burned offerings which the people took in was seventy oxen, a hundred male sheep, and two hundred lambs: all these were for burned offerings to the Lord. 33 And the holy things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep. 34 There were not enough priests for the work of cutting up all the burned offerings; so their brothers the Levites gave them help till the work was done and the priests had made themselves holy: for the Levites were more upright in heart to make themselves holy than the priests. 35 And there was a great amount of burned offerings, with the fat of the peace-offerings and the drink offerings for every burned offering. So the work of the Lord's house was put in order.
  • 2 Chr 30:24 : 24 For Hezekiah, king of Judah, gave to the people for offerings, a thousand oxen and seven thousand sheep; and the rulers gave a thousand oxen and ten thousand sheep; and a great number of priests made themselves holy.
  • Isa 40:16 : 16 And Lebanon is not enough to make a fire with, or all its cattle enough for a burned offering.
  • Mic 6:6-7 : 6 With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen a year old? 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
  • Josh 9:3 : 3 And the men of Gibeon, hearing what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
  • Josh 10:2 : 2 He was in great fear, because Gibeon was a great town, like one of the king's towns, greater than Ai, and all the men in it were men of war.
  • 1 Kgs 8:63 : 63 And Solomon gave to the Lord for peace-offerings, twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel kept the feast of the opening of the Lord's house.
  • 1 Kgs 9:2 : 2 The Lord came to him again in a vision, as he had done at Gibeon;

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  • 2 Chr 1:5-8
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    5 And the altar of brass which Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the Tent of the Lord; and Solomon and all the people went to give worship there.

    6 And Solomon went up there to the brass altar before the Lord at the Tent of meeting, offering on it a thousand burned offerings.

    7 In that night God came to Solomon in a vision, and said to him, Say what I am to give you.

    8 And Solomon said to God, Great was your mercy to David my father, and you have made me king in his place.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2-3
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    2 But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.

    3 And Solomon, in his love for the Lord, kept the laws of David his father; but he made offerings and let them go up in smoke on the high places.

  • 2 Chr 7:4-5
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    4 Then the king and all the people made offerings before the Lord.

    5 King Solomon made an offering of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people kept the feast of the opening of the house of God.

  • 2 Chr 8:12
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    12 Then Solomon made burned offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had put up in front of the covered way,

  • 1 Kgs 3:15
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    15 And Solomon, awakening, saw that it was a dream; then he came to Jerusalem, where he went before the ark of the agreement of the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings; and he made a feast for all his servants.

  • 1 Kgs 8:62-64
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    62 Now the king, and all Israel with him, were making offerings before the Lord.

    63 And Solomon gave to the Lord for peace-offerings, twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel kept the feast of the opening of the Lord's house.

    64 The same day the king made holy the middle of the open square in front of the house of the Lord, offering there the burned offering and the meal offering and the fat of the peace-offerings; for there was not room on the brass altar of the Lord for the burned offerings and the meal offerings and the fat of the peace-offerings.

  • 2 Chr 7:7
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    7 Then Solomon made holy the middle of the open square in front of the house of the Lord, offering the burned offerings there, and the fat of the peace-offerings; for there was not room on the brass altar which Solomon had made for all the burned offerings and the meal offerings and the fat.

  • 1 Kgs 3:5-6
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    5 In Gibeon, Solomon had a vision of the Lord in a dream by night; and God said to him, Say what I am to give you.

    6 And Solomon said, Great was your mercy to David my father, as his life before you was true and upright and his heart was true to you; and you have kept for him this greatest mercy, a son to take his place this day.

  • 1 Kgs 9:25
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    25 Three times in the year it was Solomon's way to give burned offerings and peace-offerings on the altar he had made to the Lord, causing his fire-offering to go up on the altar before the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 1:2-3
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    2 And Solomon sent word to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every chief in all Israel, heads of their families.

    3 Then Solomon, and all the men of Israel with him, went to the high place at Gibeon, because the Tent of meeting of God, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had made in the waste land, was there.

  • 1 Chr 21:28-29
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    28 At that time, when David saw that the Lord had given him an answer on the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he made an offering there.

    29 For the House of the Lord, which Moses had made in the waste land, and the altar of burned offerings, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.

  • 2 Chr 7:12
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    12 Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made.

  • 2 Chr 6:12-13
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    12 Then he took his place in front of the altar of the Lord, all the men of Israel being present,

    13 (For Solomon had made a brass stage, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had put it in the middle of the open space; on this he took his place and went down on his knees before all the meeting of Israel, stretching out his hands to heaven.)

  • 2 Chr 1:13
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    13 So Solomon went back from the high place at Gibeon, from before the Tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he was king over Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 8:5
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    5 And King Solomon and all the men of Israel who had come together there, were with him before the ark, making offerings of sheep and oxen more than might be numbered.

  • 2 Chr 7:1
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    1 Now when Solomon's prayers were ended, fire came down from heaven, burning up all the offerings; and the house was full of the glory of the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 8:22
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    22 Then Solomon took his place before the altar of the Lord, all the men of Israel being present, and stretching out his hands to heaven,

  • 1 Kgs 1:53
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    53 So King Solomon sent, and they took him down from the altar. And he came and gave honour to King Solomon; and Solomon said to him, Go to your house.

  • 2 Chr 5:6
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    6 And King Solomon and all the men of Israel who had come together there with him, were before the ark, making offerings of sheep and oxen more than might be numbered.

  • 2 Kgs 16:12-13
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    12 And when the king came from Damascus, he saw the altar; and he went up on it and made an offering on it.

    13 He made his burned offering and his meal offering and his drink offering there, draining out the blood of his peace-offerings on the altar.

  • 2 Chr 3:1
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    1 Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • 1 Kgs 11:7-8
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    7 Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.

    8 And so he did for all his strange wives, who made offerings with burning of perfumes to their gods.

  • 1 Chr 29:21
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    21 And they made offerings to the Lord, and gave burned offerings to the Lord, on the day after, a thousand oxen, a thousand sheep, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and a great wealth of offerings for all Israel.

  • 1 Chr 21:26
    72%

    26 And David put up an altar there to the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings with prayers to the Lord; and he gave him an answer from heaven, sending fire on the altar of burned offering.

  • 2 Chr 28:4
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    4 And he made offerings and had perfumes burned in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

  • 1 Kgs 8:54
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    54 Then Solomon, after making all these prayers and requests for grace to the Lord, got up from his knees before the altar of the Lord, where his hands had been stretched out in prayer to heaven;

  • Isa 57:7
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    7 You have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up to make your offering.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1-2
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    1 Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires, which he had in mind were effected;

    2 The Lord came to him again in a vision, as he had done at Gibeon;

  • 1 Kgs 1:46-47
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    46 And now Solomon is seated on the seat of the kingdom.

    47 And the king's servants came to our lord King David, blessing him and saying, May God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and the seat of his authority greater than your seat; and the king was bent low in worship on his bed.

  • 1 Chr 22:1
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    1 Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar for Israel's burned offerings.

  • 2 Chr 2:1
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    1 Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.

  • 2 Chr 33:5
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    5 And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 2:4
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    4 See! I am building a house for the name of the Lord my God, to be made holy to him, where perfumes of sweet spices will be burned before him, and the holy bread will be placed at all times, and burned offerings will be offered morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and at the new moons, and on the regular feasts of the Lord our God. This is a law for ever to Israel.

  • 2 Chr 4:19
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    19 And Solomon made all the vessels used in the house of God, the gold altar and the tables on which the holy bread was placed,

  • 1 Kgs 4:1
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    1 Now Solomon was king over all Israel.