2 Chronicles 8:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then Solomon offered burnt sacrifices to the LORD on the altar of the LORD which he had built in front of the temple’s porch.

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  • 2 Chr 4:1 : 1 He made a bronze altar, 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.
  • 2 Chr 15:8 : 8 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he was encouraged. He removed the detestable idols from the entire land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had seized in the Ephraimite hill country. He repaired the altar of the LORD in front of the porch of the LORD’s temple.
  • Ezek 8:16 : 16 Then he brought me to the inner court of the LORD’s house. Right there at the entrance to the LORD’s temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the LORD’s temple, facing east– they were worshiping the sun toward the east!
  • Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the priests, those who serve the LORD, weep from the vestibule all the way back to the altar. Let them say,“Have pity, O LORD, on your people; please do not turn over your inheritance to be mocked, to become a proverb among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples,“Where is their God?”
  • John 10:23 : 23 It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple area in Solomon’s Portico.
  • 1 Chr 28:17 : 17 for the pure gold used for the meat forks, bowls, and jars, for the small gold bowls, including the weight for each bowl, for the small silver bowls, including the weight for each bowl,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 7:7
    84%

    7Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard that is in front of the LORD’s temple. He offered burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat from the peace offerings there, because the bronze altar that Solomon had made was too small to hold all these offerings.

  • 1 Kgs 9:25
    83%

    25Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense along with them before the LORD. He made the temple his official worship place.

  • 2 Chr 1:5-6
    2 verses
    83%

    5But the bronze altar made by Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, was in front of the LORD’s tabernacle. Solomon and the entire assembly prayed to him there.)

    6Solomon went up to the bronze altar before the LORD which was at the meeting tent, and he offered up a thousand burnt sacrifices.

  • 1 Kgs 8:62-65
    4 verses
    82%

    62Solomon Dedicates the Temple The king and all Israel with him were presenting sacrifices to the LORD.

    63Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. Then the king and all the Israelites dedicated the LORD’s temple.

    64That day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard that is in front of the LORD’s temple. He offered there burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat from the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that stood before the LORD was too small to hold all these offerings.

    65At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival before the LORD our God for two entire weeks. This great assembly included people from all over the land, from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Stream of Egypt in the south.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2-4
    3 verses
    80%

    2Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the LORD.

    3Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the LORD by following the practices of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

    4The 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.

  • 2 Chr 7:4-5
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    4The king and all the people were presenting sacrifices to the LORD.

    5King Solomon sacrificed 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. Then the king and all the people dedicated God’s temple.

  • 2 Chr 7:1
    78%

    1Solomon Dedicates the Temple When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the LORD’s splendor filled the temple.

  • 1 Kgs 8:22
    78%

    22Solomon Prays for Israel Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky.

  • 2 Chr 2:4
    77%

    4Look, 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.

  • 1 Kgs 3:15
    76%

    15Solomon then woke up and realized it was a dream. He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, offered up burnt sacrifices, presented peace offerings, and held a feast for all his servants.

  • 1 Kgs 11:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7Furthermore, on the hill east of Jerusalem Solomon built a high place for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom.

    8He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods.

  • 2 Chr 7:12
    75%

    12the LORD appeared to Solomon at night and said to him:“I have answered your prayer and chosen this place to be my temple where sacrifices are to be made.

  • 2 Kgs 16:12-13
    2 verses
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    12When the king arrived back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and offered a sacrifice on it.

    13He offered his burnt sacrifice and his grain offering. He poured out his libation and sprinkled the blood from his peace offerings on the altar.

  • 2 Chr 3:1
    75%

    1The Building of the Temple Solomon began building the LORD’s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • 1 Chr 21:26
    74%

    26David built there an altar to the LORD and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. He called out to the LORD, and the LORD responded by sending fire from the sky and consuming the burnt sacrifice on the altar.

  • 1 Chr 22:1
    74%

    1David then said,“This is the place where the temple of the LORD God will be, along with the altar for burnt sacrifices for Israel.”

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
    74%

    1The Lord Gives Solomon a Promise and a Warning After Solomon finished building the LORD’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned,

  • 2 Chr 2:1
    73%

    1Solomon Gathers Building Materials for the Temple(1:18) Solomon ordered a temple to be built to honor the LORD, as well as a royal palace for himself.

  • 2 Chr 8:1
    73%

    1Building Projects and Commercial Efforts After twenty years, during which Solomon built the LORD’s temple and his royal palace,

  • 1 Kgs 8:5
    73%

    5Now King Solomon and all the Israelites who had assembled with him went on ahead of the ark and sacrificed more sheep and cattle than could be counted or numbered.

  • 2 Chr 6:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

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

    13Solomon had made a bronze platform and had placed it in the middle of the enclosure. It was seven and one-half feet long, seven and one-half feet wide, and four and one-half feet high. He stood on it and then got down on his knees in front of the entire assembly of Israel. He spread out his hands toward the sky,

  • 1 Chr 22:6
    72%

    6He summoned his son Solomon and charged him to build a temple for the LORD God of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 8:11
    72%

    11Solomon moved Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said,“My wife must not live in the palace of King David of Israel, for the places where the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”

  • 1 Kgs 8:54
    72%

    54When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the LORD, he got up from before the altar of the LORD where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky.

  • Acts 7:47
    72%

    47But Solomon built a house for him.

  • Lev 9:16
    72%

    16He then presented the burnt offering, and did it according to the standard regulation.

  • 1 Kgs 7:7
    72%

    7He also made a throne room, called“The Hall of Judgment,” where he made judicial decisions. It was paneled with cedar from the floor to the rafters.

  • 1 Chr 16:40
    72%

    40regularly offering burnt sacrifices to the LORD on the altar for burnt sacrifice, morning and evening, according to what is prescribed in the law of the LORD which he charged Israel to observe.

  • 1 Kgs 6:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11The LORD’s message came to Solomon:

    12“As for this temple you are building, if you follow my rules, observe my regulations, and obey all my commandments, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.

  • 2 Kgs 21:5
    72%

    5In the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

  • Gen 8:20
    72%

    20Noah built an altar to the LORD. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
    72%

    16All the work ordered by Solomon was completed, from the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid until it was finished; the LORD’s temple was completed.

  • Exod 40:29
    72%

    29He also put the altar for the burnt offering by the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • 1 Kgs 7:48
    72%

    48Solomon also made all these items for the LORD’s temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which was kept the Bread of the Presence,

  • Exod 40:6
    72%

    6You are to put the altar for the burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
    72%

    10Foreign Affairs and Building Projects After twenty years, during which Solomon built the LORD’s temple and the royal palace,

  • 2 Chr 33:5
    71%

    5In the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

  • Deut 27:6
    71%

    6You must build the altar of the LORD your God with whole stones and offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.

  • Ezra 3:5
    71%

    5Afterward they offered the continual burnt offerings and those for the new moons and those for all the holy assemblies of the LORD and all those that were being voluntarily offered to the LORD.