1 Kings 3:4 “Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great h…”

1 Kings 3:4

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And the King went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the chiefe hie place: a thousand burnt offrings did Salomon offer vpon that altar.

Darby Translation

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.

Young's Literal Translation

and the king goeth to Gibeon, to sacrifice there, for it [is] the great high place; a thousand burnt-offerings cause to ascend doth Solomon on that altar.

Bible in Basic English

And the king went to Gibeon to make an offering there, because that was the chief high place: it was Solomon's way to make a thousand burned offerings on that altar.

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Cross references

“Gibeon”

1 Chronicles 16:39 2 Chronicles 1:3 1 Chronicles 21:29 Joshua 9:3 Joshua 10:2 1 Kings 9:2

1 Chronicles 16:39 · BSB

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

2 Chronicles 1:3 · BSB

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.

1 Chronicles 21:29 · BSB

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,

Joshua 9:3 · BSB

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

Joshua 10:2 · BSB

So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

1 Kings 9:2 · BSB

the LORD appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.

“a thousand”

2 Chronicles 7:5 Isaiah 40:16 1 Kings 8:63 2 Chronicles 29:32–35 2 Chronicles 30:24 2 Chronicles 1:6

2 Chronicles 7:5 · BSB

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.

Isaiah 40:16 · BSB

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

1 Kings 8:63 · BSB

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.

2 Chronicles 29:32–35 · BSB

The number of burnt offerings the assembly brought was seventy bulls, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.

2 Chronicles 30:24 · BSB

For Hezekiah king of Judah contributed a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep for the assembly, and the officials contributed a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep for the assembly, and a great number of priests con…

2 Chronicles 1:6 · BSB

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

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

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

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