2 Chronicles 2:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

Behold, 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.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, 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 for ever to Israel.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Jehovah my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual showbread, and for the burnt-offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Jehovah our God. This is [an ordinance] for ever to Israel.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, 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 for ever to Israel.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Beholde, I wyl buylde an house vnto the name of the LORDE my God, to sanctifie it, for to burne good incense before him, and allwaye to prepare ye shewbred, and burntofferynges in the mornynge and in the euenynge, on the Sabbathes & Newmones, and solempne feastes of ye LORDE oure God euermore for Israel.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Behold, I buylde an house vnto the Name of the Lord my God, to sanctifie it vnto him, and to burne sweete incense before him, and for the continuall shewbread, and for the burnt offrings of the morning and euening, on the Sabbath dayes, and in the new moneths, & in the solemne feastes of the Lorde our God: this is a perpetuall thing for Israel.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Behold I buylde an house for the name of the Lorde my God, to offer vnto him holy thinges, & to burne sweete incense, and to set shewe bread before him continually, to offer burnt sacrifices of the morning and euening on the Sabbath dayes, in the firste day of euery newe moone, and in the solempne feastes of the Lorde our God: for it is an ordinaunce to be continually kept of Israel.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate [it] to him, [and] to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, 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] for ever to Israel.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is [an ordinance] forever to Israel.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    lo, I am building a house to the name of Jehovah my God, to sanctify `it' to Him, to make perfume before Him, perfume of spices, and a continual arrangement, and burnt-offerings at morning and at evening, at sabbaths, and at new moons, and at appointed seasons of Jehovah our God; to the age this `is' on Israel.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Jehovah my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual showbread, and for the burnt-offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Jehovah our God. This is `an ordinance' for ever to Israel.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Jehovah my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual showbread, and for the burnt-offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Jehovah our God. This is [an ordinance] for ever to Israel.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is [an ordinance] forever to Israel.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Look, I am ready to build a temple to honor the LORD my God and to dedicate it to him in order to burn fragrant incense before him, to set out the bread that is regularly displayed, and to offer burnt sacrifices each morning and evening, and on Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and at other times appointed by the LORD our God. This is something Israel must do on a permanent basis.

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 30:7 : 7 And Aaron shall burn on it sweet incense every morning: when he prepares the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
  • Exod 25:30 : 30 And you shall set the showbread on the table before me always.
  • Exod 29:38-42 : 38 Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs of the first year, day by day continually. 39 One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight. 40 With the one lamb shall be one-tenth of an ephah of flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of pressed oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering. 41 And the other lamb you shall offer at twilight, and you shall offer with it the grain offering and the drink offering, as in the morning, for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD. 42 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet you to speak with you.
  • 2 Chr 2:1 : 1 And Solomon resolved to build a house for the name of the LORD, and a house for his kingdom.
  • Lev 23:1-9 : 1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy gatherings, these are my feasts. 3 Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, a holy gathering; you shall do no work in it; it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings. 4 These are the feasts of the LORD, holy gatherings, which you shall proclaim in their seasons. 5 On the fourteenth day of the first month at evening is the LORD'S Passover. 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to the LORD; seven days you must eat unleavened bread. 7 On the first day you shall have a holy gathering: you shall do no servile work in it. 8 But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD seven days; on the seventh day is a holy gathering; you shall do no servile work in it. 9 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 10 Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land which I give you and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. 11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you; on the day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 And you shall offer that day when you wave the sheaf a he-lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering to the LORD. 13 And its meat offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the LORD for a sweet aroma; and its drink offering shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. 14 And you shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor fresh ears until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 15 And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete. 16 Even to the day after the seventh sabbath shall you number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meat offering to the LORD. 17 You shall bring out of your dwellings two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah; they shall be made of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven; they are the firstfruits to the LORD.
  • Lev 24:5-9 : 5 And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes from it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake. 6 And you shall set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD. 7 And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, an offering made by fire to the LORD. 8 Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. 9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons', and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
  • Num 28:1-9 : 1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Command the children of Israel, and say to them, My offering and My bread for My sacrifices made by fire, for a pleasing aroma to Me, shall you be careful to offer to Me in their due season. 3 And you shall say to them, This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to the LORD; two lambs of the first year without blemish day by day, for a continual burnt offering. 4 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at evening; 5 And a tenth of an ephah of flour for a grain offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil. 6 It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained on Mount Sinai for a pleasing aroma, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD. 7 And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shall you cause the strong wine to be poured to the LORD for a drink offering. 8 And the other lamb you shall offer at evening: as the grain offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, you shall offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 9 And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without blemish, and two tenth deals of flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and the drink offering thereof: 10 This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering. 11 And at the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD; two young bulls, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish; 12 And three tenth deals of flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for one bull; and two tenth deals of flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for one ram; 13 And a separate tenth deal of flour mixed with oil for a grain offering for one lamb; for a burnt offering of a pleasing aroma, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD. 14 And their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for a ram, and a fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year. 15 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering to the LORD shall be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering. 16 And on the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of the LORD. 17 And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. 18 On the first day shall be a holy assembly; you shall do no servile work therein: 19 But you shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering to the LORD; two young bulls, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be to you without blemish: 20 And their grain offering shall be of flour mixed with oil: three tenth deals shall you offer for a bull, and two tenth deals for a ram; 21 A separate tenth deal shall you offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs: 22 And one goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you. 23 You shall offer these besides the burnt offering in the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering. 24 In this manner you shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a pleasing aroma to the LORD: it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering. 25 And on the seventh day you shall have a holy assembly; you shall do no servile work. 26 Also on the day of the firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the LORD, after your weeks are completed, you shall have a holy assembly; you shall do no servile work: 27 But you shall offer the burnt offering for a pleasing aroma to the LORD; two young bulls, one ram, seven lambs of the first year; 28 And their grain offering of flour mixed with oil, three tenth deals for one bull, two tenth deals for one ram, 29 A separate tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs;
  • 1 Kgs 8:18 : 18 And the LORD said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.
  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

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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,

    13Even according to a certain schedule every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

  • 2 Chr 2:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5And the house which I build is great, for great is our God above all gods.

    6But who is able to build him a house, seeing the heavens and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? Who am I then, that I should build him a house, except only to burn sacrifice before him?

  • 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.

  • 3And the LORD said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before Me: I have hallowed this house, which you have built, to put My name there forever; and My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.

  • 5And behold, I plan to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spoke to David my father, saying, Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, he shall build a house for my name.

  • 33For the showbread, for the continual grain offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the Sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

  • 2But I have built a house of habitation for you, and a place for your dwelling forever.

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

  • 16For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.

  • 12As for this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and execute my judgments and keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will fulfill my word with you, which I spoke to David your father:

  • 40To offer burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the law of the LORD, which he commanded Israel;

  • 1 Kgs 6:1-2
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    74%

    1And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.

    2And the house which King Solomon built for the LORD, its length was sixty cubits, and its width twenty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

  • 31And to offer all burnt sacrifices to the LORD on the sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded to them, continually before the LORD:

  • 13I have surely built you a house to dwell in, a settled place for you to abide in forever.

  • 1 Chr 22:5-7
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    73%

    5And David said, Solomon my son is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and glory throughout all nations: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.

    6Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build a house for the LORD God of Israel.

    7And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build a house unto the name of the LORD my God:

  • 9To prepare me timber in abundance, for the house which I am about to build shall be exceedingly great.

  • 7And he set a carved image, the idol he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and Solomon his son, 'In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever.'

  • 11And they burn to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: they also set the showbread in order upon the pure table; and the gold lampstand with its lamps, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but you have forsaken him.

  • 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.

  • 8Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 5And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of everyone that willingly offered a freewill offering to the LORD.

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    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.

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

  • 4He also built altars in the house of the LORD, where the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.'

  • 10And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house,

  • 7And he set up the carved image of the Asherah he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever:'

  • 10He shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.

  • 3And Solomon sent to Huram, the king of Tyre, saying, As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build a house to dwell in, so deal with me.

  • 2Then King David stood up on his feet, and said, Hear me, my brothers, and my people: As for me, I had in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made preparations for the building:

  • 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.

  • 8And they dwelt in it, and have built You a sanctuary in it for Your name, saying,

  • 4And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem I will put my name.'

  • 47But Solomon built Him a house.

  • 17And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

  • 10Take heed now; for the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.

  • 19Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built for the name of the LORD.

  • 2Command the children of Israel, and say to them, My offering and My bread for My sacrifices made by fire, for a pleasing aroma to Me, shall you be careful to offer to Me in their due season.

  • 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,

  • 16Now all the work of Solomon was prepared from the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was completed.

  • 3He also appointed the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, namely, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.