Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the king went to Gibeon, to offer there: for that was a great offering place. And there Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings upon that altar.
New American Standard Bible
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.
Holman Bible
The king went to Gibeon
International Standard Version
The king used to go to Gibeon to sacrifice, since there was a famous high place there, where Solomon once offered 1,000 burnt offerings on that altar.
A Conservative Version
And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt-offerings upon 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.
Amplified
The king went to Gibeon [near Jerusalem, where the tabernacle and the bronze altar stood] to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings 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.
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.
Julia Smith Translation
And the king will go to the hill to sacrifice there; for it was the great height: a thousand burnt-offerings will Solomon bring up upon that altar.
King James 2000
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice, for the great high place [was] there. Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
Modern King James verseion
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.
NET Bible
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.
New Heart 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.
The Emphasized Bible
So then the king went to Gibeon, to sacrifice there, for, that, was the great high place, - a thousand ascending-sacrifices, did Solomon offer up on that altar.
Webster
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: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer on that altar.
Youngs 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.
Themes
Children » Instances of » Solomon
Dream » Instances of » Of solomon, concerning his choice of wisdom
gibeon » A city » A city of the hivites » The tabernacle located at
gibeon » A city » A city of the hivites » Solomon worships at, and offers sacrifices
High places » Sometimes used for true worship
High places » A term used to describe places of worship
High places » God sometimes worshipped on
High places » Mentioned in scripture » gibeon
Kings » Who reigned over all israel » Solomon
Places » High » Sometimes used for true worship
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Kings 3:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Solomon Requests Wisdom From God
3 And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the ordinances of David his father, save only that he sacrificed and offered cense upon altars in hills. 4 And the king went to Gibeon, to offer there: for that was a great offering place. And there Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings upon that altar. 5 And in Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night. And God said, "Ask what I shall give thee."
Phrases
Cross References
1 Chronicles 16:39
And Zadok the priest with his brethren the priests set he before the tabernacle of the LORD at the hill altar of Gibeon,
1 Chronicles 21:29
For the tabernacle of the LORD which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were that season in the hill at Gibeon.
2 Chronicles 1:3
And so Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the hill altar of Gibeon: for there was the tabernacle of witness of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD made in the wilderness.
Joshua 9:3
But when the Inhabiters of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho, and Ai,
Joshua 10:2
then they feared exceedingly, for Gibeon was a great city, as any city of the kingdom, and thereto greater than Ai, and all her men were mighty.
1 Kings 8:63
And the peace offerings that Solomon offered unto the LORD, were twenty two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep: And so the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.
1 Kings 9:2
the LORD appeared unto him again, as he appeared to him at Gibeon.
2 Chronicles 1:6-12
And Solomon offered there before the LORD upon the brazen altar that was by the tabernacle of witness, a thousand burnt sacrifices.
2 Chronicles 7:5
So that king Solomon offered twenty two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. And so the king and all the people hallowed the house of God.
2 Chronicles 29:32-35
And the number of the burnt offerings which the congregation brought in was seventy oxen and a hundred rams and two hundred lambs: and all for burnt offerings to the LORD.
2 Chronicles 30:24
For Hezekiah king of Judah gave for heave offerings to the congregation a thousand oxen and seven thousand sheep. And the lords gave to the congregation for heave offerings a thousand oxen and ten thousand sheep. And the priests sanctified themselves, that they were enough.
Isaiah 40:16
Lebanon is not sufficient to minister fire for his offering, and all the beasts thereof are not enough to one sacrifice.
Micah 6:6-7
"What acceptable thing shall I offer unto the LORD? Shall I bow my knee to the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, and with calves of a year old?