1 Kings 3:4

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.

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  • 1 Chr 16:39 : 39 and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before the tent of Yahweh in the high place that was at Gibeon,
  • 1 Chr 21:29 : 29 For the tent of Yahweh, 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 assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of Yahweh had made in the wilderness.
  • 2 Chr 1:6-9 : 6 Solomon went up there to the brazen altar before Yahweh, which was at the tent of meeting, and offered one thousand burnt offerings on it. 7 In that night did God appear to Solomon, and said to him, Ask what I shall give you. 8 Solomon said to God, You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place. 9 Now, Yahweh 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 God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of those who hate you, 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 who have been before you; neither shall there any after you have the like.
  • 2 Chr 7:5 : 5 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a 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 the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to Yahweh. 33 The consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep. 34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the 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 with the drink-offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of Yahweh was set in order.
  • 2 Chr 30:24 : 24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
  • Isa 40:16 : 16 Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the animals of it sufficient for a burnt offering.
  • Mic 6:6-7 : 6 How shall I come before Yahweh, And bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, With calves a year old? 7 Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? 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 to Ai,
  • Josh 10:2 : 2 that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men of it were mighty.
  • 1 Kgs 8:63 : 63 Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, two and twenty thousand oxen, and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of Yahweh.
  • 1 Kgs 9:2 : 2 that Yahweh 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 brazen altar, that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the tent of Yahweh: and Solomon and the assembly sought to it.

    6Solomon went up there to the brazen altar before Yahweh, which was at the tent of meeting, and offered one thousand burnt offerings on it.

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

    8Solomon said to God, You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place.

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

    3Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

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

    5King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a 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 Yahweh on the altar of Yahweh, which he had built before the porch,

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

  • 1 Kgs 8:62-64
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    62The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh.

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

    64The same day did the king make the middle of the court holy that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings.

  • 2 Chr 7:7
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    7Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court holy that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat.

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

    6Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, according 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 loving 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 a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace-offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense therewith, [on the altar] that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.

  • 2 Chr 1:2-3
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    2Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers' [houses].

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

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

    29For the tent of Yahweh, 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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    12Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.

  • 2 Chr 6:12-13
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    12He stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands

    13(for Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;)

  • 2 Chr 1:13
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    13So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he reigned over Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 8:5
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    5King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.

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

  • 1 Kgs 8:22
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    22Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly 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. He came and did obeisance 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 to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.

  • 2 Kgs 16:12-13
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    12When the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near to the altar, and offered thereon.

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

  • 2 Chr 3:1
    73%

    1Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [Yahweh] appeared to David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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

    8So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.

  • 1 Chr 29:21
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    21They sacrificed sacrifices to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the next day after that day, even one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, and one thousand lambs, with their drink-offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel,

  • 1 Chr 21:26
    72%

    26David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.

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

  • 1 Kgs 8:54
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    54It was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven.

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

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

    2that Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

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

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

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

  • 2 Chr 2:1
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    1Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

  • 2 Chr 33:5
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    5He built altars for all the host of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 2:4
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    4Behold, 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.

  • 2 Chr 4:19
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    19Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon was the show bread;

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