'Sacrifices' in the Bible
Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the Lord.
Solomon 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.
The 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.
Solomon 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.
The king and all Israel with him were offering sacrifices in the Lord’s presence.
That 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.
He did the same for all his foreign wives, who were burning incense and offering sacrifices to their gods.
If these people regularly go to offer sacrifices in the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem, the heart of these people will return to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah. They will murder me and go back to the king of Judah.”
Jeroboam made a festival in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival in Judah. He offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up. He also stationed the priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.
He offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. He chose this month on his own. He made a festival for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.
With the authority of the Lord he cried out against the altar, "O altar, altar! This is what the Lord says, 'Look, a son named Josiah will be born to the Davidic dynasty. He will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer sacrifices on you. Human bones will be burned on you.'"
He followed in his father Asa's footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord approved. However, the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.
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- Burnt-sacrifice (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Festal-sacrifice (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Idol-sacrifices (3 instances in 1 translation)
- Passover-sacrifice (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Sacrifice (365 instances in 12 translations)
- Sacrifice's (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Sacrificed (107 instances in 12 translations)
- Sacrificedst (1 instance in 2 translations)
- Sacrificers (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Sacrificest (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Sacrificeth (22 instances in 4 translations)
- Sacrificial (38 instances in 8 translations)
- Sacrificing (53 instances in 12 translations)
- Self-sacrificing (1 instance in 1 translation)
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