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1 Kings 3:4

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2 The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.

3 And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

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

5 One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”

6 Solomon replied, “You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. And You have maintained this loving devotion by giving him a son to sit on his throne this very day.

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BSB
Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.
KJV
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.
WEB
The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
ASV
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.
DARBY
And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon offer up upon that altar.
BLB
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.
ÅB
Og kongen dro til Gibeon[^1] for å ofre der; for der var den ypperste offerhaug. Tusen brennoffer ofret Salomo på alteret der.
OTB
Og kongen dro til Gibeon for å ofre der, for det var den store offerhøyden; Salomo ofret tusen brennoffer på det alteret.
B1930
Og kongen drog til Gibeon for å ofre der; for der var den ypperste offerhaug. Tusen brennoffer ofret Salomo på alteret der. / < der var på den tid tabernaklet; arken var i Jerusalem.>

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Cross references

  • 2 Chronicles 1:3

    And Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon because it was the location of God’s Tent of Meeting, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

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  • 1 Chronicles 16:39

    And David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon

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  • 2 Chronicles 7:5

    And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

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  • 2 Chronicles 1:6–12

    Solomon offered sacrifices there before the LORD on the bronze altar in the Tent of Meeting, where he offered a thousand burnt offerings.

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  • 1 Chronicles 21:29

    For the tabernacle of the LORD that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were presently at the high place in Gibeon,

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  • Isaiah 40:16

    Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.

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  • Joshua 9:3

    But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

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  • 1 Kings 8:63

    And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.

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