1 Kings 3:4

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there because it was the most prominent high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place: Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And the king{H4428} went{H3212} to Gibeon{H1391} to sacrifice{H2076} there; for that{H1931} was the great{H1419} high place:{H1116} a thousand{H505} burnt-offerings{H5930} did Solomon{H8010} offer{H5927} upon that altar.{H4196}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And the king{H4428} went{H3212}{(H8799)} to Gibeon{H1391} to sacrifice{H2076}{(H8800)} there; for that{H1931} was the great{H1419} high place{H1116}: a thousand{H505} burnt offerings{H5930} did Solomon{H8010} offer{H5927}{(H8686)} upon that altar{H4196}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And the kynge wente vnto Gibeon, to do sacrifice there: for that was a goodly hye place. And Salomon offred a thousande burntofferynges vpon the same altare.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And the King went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the chiefe hie place: a thousand burnt offrings did Salomon offer vpo that altar.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And the king went to Gibeon, to offer there, for that was the speciall hygh place: And a thousande burnt offringes dyd Solomon offer vpon that aulter.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that [was] the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer on that altar.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and the king goeth to Gibeon, to sacrifice there, for it `is' the great high place; a thousand burnt-offerings cause to ascend doth Solomon on that altar.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer on that altar.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. Solomon would offer up a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 16:39 : 39 Zadok the priest and his fellow priests were stationed before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon.
  • 1 Chr 21:29 : 29 The tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time on the high place at Gibeon.
  • 2 Chr 1:3 : 3 Then Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon, because God's tent of meeting, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had made in the wilderness, was there.
  • 2 Chr 1:6-9 : 6 There Solomon went up to the bronze altar before the Lord at the tent of meeting and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it. 7 That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Ask for whatever you want me to give you." 8 Solomon replied to God, "You have shown great lovingkindness to my father David and have made me king in his place. 9 Now, Lord God, let your promise to my father David be confirmed, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth. 10 Give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may lead this people, for who is able to govern this great people of yours? 11 God said to Solomon, "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked for wealth, possessions, honor, the death of your enemies, or even many long years—but have asked for wisdom and knowledge to govern my people over whom I have made you king— 12 Therefore wisdom and knowledge are given to you. I will also give you wealth, possessions, and honor, such as no king before you ever had and none after you will have."
  • 2 Chr 7:5 : 5 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep and goats. So the king and all the people dedicated the temple of God.
  • 2 Chr 29:32-35 : 32 The number of burnt offerings the assembly brought was: seventy cattle, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs—all as burnt offerings to the LORD. 33 The consecrated offerings included six hundred cattle and three thousand sheep. 34 But because there were too few priests to skin all the burnt offerings, their Levite brothers helped them until the work was completed and the priests had consecrated themselves, for the Levites were more diligent in consecrating themselves than the priests. 35 In addition to the burnt offerings, there were abundant fat portions of peace offerings and drink offerings for the burnt offerings. So the service of the house of the LORD was set in proper order.
  • 2 Chr 30:24 : 24 Hezekiah king of Judah contributed a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep for the assembly, and the officials provided a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep. A large number of priests consecrated themselves.
  • Isa 40:16 : 16 Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its animals enough for burnt offerings.
  • Mic 6:6-7 : 6 With what shall I come before the Lord and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with yearling calves? 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand streams of oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
  • Josh 9:3 : 3 But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
  • Josh 10:2 : 2 he and his people were very afraid because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, even greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty warriors.
  • 1 Kgs 8:63 : 63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to the LORD: twenty-two thousand cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.
  • 1 Kgs 9:2 : 2 the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, just as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 Chr 1:5-8
    4 verses
    86%

    5 The bronze altar that Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, had made was there in front of the Lord's tabernacle, and Solomon and the assembly sought it out.

    6 There Solomon went up to the bronze altar before the Lord at the tent of meeting and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it.

    7 That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Ask for whatever you want me to give you."

    8 Solomon replied to God, "You have shown great lovingkindness to my father David and have made me king in his place.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2-3
    2 verses
    84%

    2 However, the people were still sacrificing on the high places because no house had yet been built for the name of the LORD.

    3 Solomon loved the LORD, walking according to the statutes of his father David, yet he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

  • 2 Chr 7:4-5
    2 verses
    81%

    4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.

    5 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep and goats. So the king and all the people dedicated the temple of God.

  • 2 Chr 8:12
    80%

    12 At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord that he had constructed in front of the portico.

  • 1 Kgs 3:15
    79%

    15 Then Solomon awoke, and it was a dream. He came to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and held a feast for all his servants.

  • 1 Kgs 8:62-64
    3 verses
    79%

    62 Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD.

    63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to the LORD: twenty-two thousand cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.

    64 On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered burnt offerings, grain offerings, and the fat of the fellowship offerings, because the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to hold all the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and the fat portions of the fellowship offerings.

  • 2 Chr 7:7
    78%

    7 Solomon also consecrated the middle part of the courtyard in front of the Temple of the LORD, and there he offered burnt offerings, the fat of the fellowship offerings, because the bronze altar he had made could not hold the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat portions.

  • 1 Kgs 3:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5 At Gibeon, the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream during the night, and God said, "Ask for whatever you want me to give you."

    6 Solomon replied, "You have shown great lovingkindness to your servant, my father David, because he walked before you in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. You have continued this great kindness to him by giving him a son to sit on his throne this day."

  • 1 Kgs 9:25
    78%

    25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense before the LORD with them, and so he fulfilled the temple obligations.

  • 2 Chr 1:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2 Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders and heads of fathers’ households throughout Israel.

    3 Then Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon, because God's tent of meeting, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had made in the wilderness, was there.

  • 1 Chr 21:28-29
    2 verses
    77%

    28 At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.

    29 The tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time on the high place at Gibeon.

  • 2 Chr 7:12
    75%

    12 Then the LORD appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

  • 2 Chr 6:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

    12 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.

    13 For Solomon had made a bronze platform, placing it in the middle of the courtyard. It was five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high. He stood on it, knelt on his knees before the entire assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven.

  • 2 Chr 1:13
    75%

    13 Then Solomon returned from the high place at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem, and he reigned over Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 8:5
    75%

    5 King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel who had gathered before him were with him in front of the Ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be counted or numbered.

  • 2 Chr 7:1
    74%

    1 When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.

  • 1 Kgs 8:22
    74%

    22 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.

  • 1 Kgs 1:53
    74%

    53 So King Solomon sent men, and they brought Adonijah down from the altar. He came and bowed to King Solomon, who said to him, "Go to your home."

  • 2 Chr 5:6
    74%

    6 King Solomon and the whole assembly of Israel who had gathered around him before the Ark were sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be counted or numbered.

  • 2 Kgs 16:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12 When the king returned from Damascus, he saw the altar, approached it, and offered sacrifices on it.

    13 He offered his burnt offering and his grain offering, poured out his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.

  • 2 Chr 3:1
    73%

    1 Then Solomon began building the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • 1 Kgs 11:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 At that time Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the hill east of Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the Ammonites.

    8 He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.

  • 1 Chr 29:21
    73%

    21 The next day, they offered sacrifices to the LORD and presented burnt offerings to him: a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, along with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in great abundance for all Israel.

  • 1 Chr 21:26
    72%

    26 There David built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called on the LORD, and He answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of the burnt offering.

  • 2 Chr 28:4
    72%

    4 He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • 1 Kgs 8:54
    72%

    54 When Solomon finished praying this entire prayer and supplication to the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread toward heaven.

  • Isa 57:7
    71%

    7 You have placed your bed on a high and lofty mountain; there you went up to offer sacrifices.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 When Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and everything he desired to accomplish,

    2 the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, just as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.

  • 1 Kgs 1:46-47
    2 verses
    71%

    46 Moreover, Solomon has taken his seat on the royal throne.

    47 The king's servants have also come to bless our lord King David, saying, 'May your God make Solomon's name more famous than yours and his throne greater than yours!' And the king bowed on his bed in worship.

  • 1 Chr 22:1
    70%

    1 Then David said, 'This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of burnt offerings for Israel.'

  • 2 Chr 2:1
    70%

    1 Solomon assigned seventy thousand men to carry burdens, eighty thousand men to cut stone in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred supervisors to oversee them.

  • 2 Chr 33:5
    70%

    5 He built altars to all the stars of the sky in both courtyards of the temple of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 2:4
    69%

    4 The house I am building will be large because our God is greater than all gods.

  • 2 Chr 4:19
    69%

    19 Solomon made all the items for the house of God: the golden altar, the tables on which were the bread of the Presence,

  • 1 Kgs 4:1
    69%

    1 King Solomon ruled over all Israel.