1 Kings 3:4

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.

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  • 1 Chr 16:39 : 39 And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon,
  • 1 Chr 21:29 : 29 For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
  • 2 Chr 1:3 : 3 So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
  • 2 Chr 1:6-9 : 6 And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the LORD, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it. 7 In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, Ask what I shall give you. 8 And Solomon said to God, You have shown great mercy to David my father, and have made me to reign in his place. 9 Now, O LORD God, let your promise to David my father be established: for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude. 10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this your people, that is so great? 11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of your enemies, neither yet have asked long life; but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king: 12 Wisdom and knowledge is granted to you; and I will give you riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had that have been before you, neither shall any after you have the like.
  • 2 Chr 7:5 : 5 And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen, and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep; so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
  • 2 Chr 29:32-35 : 32 The number of burnt offerings which the congregation brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD. 33 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep. 34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings; therefore, their brethren the Levites helped them until the work was done, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves, for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests. 35 Also, the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD was set in order.
  • 2 Chr 30:24 : 24 For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the congregation a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
  • Isa 40:16 : 16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt offering.
  • Mic 6:6-7 : 6 With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the High God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
  • Josh 9:3 : 3 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
  • Josh 10:2 : 2 that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
  • 1 Kgs 8:63 : 63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the LORD, twenty-two thousand oxen, and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.
  • 1 Kgs 9:2 : 2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.

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  • 2 Chr 1:5-8
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    5Moreover the bronze altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.

    6And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the LORD, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.

    7In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, Ask what I shall give you.

    8And Solomon said to God, You have shown great mercy to David my father, and have made me to reign in his place.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2-3
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    2But the people sacrificed at high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days.

    3And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father; yet he sacrificed and burned incense at high places.

  • 2 Chr 7:4-5
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    4Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.

    5And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen, and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep; so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

  • 2 Chr 8:12
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    12Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,

  • 1 Kgs 3:15
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    15And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.

  • 1 Kgs 8:62-64
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    62And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD.

    63And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the LORD, twenty-two thousand oxen, and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.

    64The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered burnt offerings, grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to receive the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.

  • 2 Chr 7:7
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    7Moreover Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that Solomon had made was not able to hold the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat.

  • 1 Kgs 3:5-6
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    5In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, Ask what I shall give you.

    6And Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my father great mercy, as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you; and you have kept for him this great kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

  • 1 Kgs 9:25
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    25Three times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built to the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house.

  • 2 Chr 1:2-3
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    2Then Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.

    3So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

  • 1 Chr 21:28-29
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    28At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.

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

  • 2 Chr 7:12
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    12And the LORD appeared to Solomon by 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
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    12And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:

    13For Solomon had made a bronze scaffold, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and upon it he stood, and knelt down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,

  • 2 Chr 1:13
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    13Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 8:5
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    5And King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel assembled with him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.

  • 2 Chr 7:1
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    1Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.

  • 1 Kgs 8:22
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    22And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:

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

  • 2 Chr 5:6
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    6King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled with him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be counted or numbered for multitude.

  • 2 Kgs 16:12-13
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    12And when the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king approached the altar and offered on it.

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

  • 2 Chr 3:1
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    1Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • 1 Kgs 11:7-8
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    7Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the hill before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

    8And likewise he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

  • 1 Chr 29:21
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    21And they offered sacrifices to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings to the LORD, on the next day after that day, even a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:

  • 1 Chr 21:26
    72%

    26And David built there an altar to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.

  • 2 Chr 28:4
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    4He also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • 1 Kgs 8:54
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    54And it was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to the LORD, he rose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.

  • Isa 57:7
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    7On a lofty and high mountain you have set your bed; even there you went up to offer sacrifice.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1-2
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    1And it happened, when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires which he was pleased to do,

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

  • 1 Kgs 1:46-47
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    46And also Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.

    47Moreover, the king's servants came to bless our lord King David, saying, May God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed.

  • 1 Chr 22:1
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    1Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.

  • 2 Chr 2:1
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    1And Solomon resolved to build a house for the name of the LORD, and a house for his kingdom.

  • 2 Chr 33:5
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    5And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 2:4
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    4Behold, I build a house for the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn sweet incense before him, and for the continual showbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.

  • 2 Chr 4:19
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    19And Solomon made all the furnishings that were in the house of God: the golden altar and the tables on which was the showbread;

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