KJV 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.
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1 Kings 3:4
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB 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.
ASV 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.
YLT 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.
Surrounding context — 1 Kings 3
1 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
3 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
4 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.
5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
6 And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as [it is] this day.
7 And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I [am but] a little child: I know not [how] to go out or come in.
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וַיֵּ֨לֶךְH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentהַמֶּ֤לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingגִּבְעֹ֙נָה֙H1391 · giv.onGibeonלִזְבֹּ֣חַH2076 · za.vachto sacrificeשָׁ֔םH8033 · shamthereכִּ֥יH3588 · kiforהִ֖יאH1931 · huhe/she/itהַבָּמָ֣הH1116 · ba.mahhigh placeהַגְּדוֹלָ֑הH1419 · ga.dolgreat: largeאֶ֤לֶףH505 · e.lephthousandעֹלוֹת֙H5930 · o.lahburnt offeringיַעֲלֶ֣הH5927 · a.lahto ascend: riseשְׁלֹמֹ֔הH8010 · she.lo.mohSolomonעַ֖לH5921 · aluponהַמִּזְבֵּ֥חַH4196 · miz.be.achaltarהַהֽוּא׃H1931 · huhe/she/it
Cross-references
2 Chronicles 7:5And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.2 Chronicles 1:3So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that [was] at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.1 Chronicles 16:39And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that [was] at Gibeon,1 Chronicles 21:29For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, [were] at that season in the high place at Gibeon.2 Chronicles 1:6-12And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the LORD, which [was] at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.Joshua 9:3And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,Isaiah 40:16And Lebanon [is] not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.1 Kings 8:63And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.2 Chronicles 30:24For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.2 Chronicles 29:32-35And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, [and] two hundred lambs: all these [were] for a burnt offering to the LORD.Micah 6:6-7Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, [and] bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?Joshua 10:2That 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 thereof [were] mighty.1 Kings 9:2That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
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