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2 Chronicles 1:6

2 Chronicles 1:6 is verse 6 of 2 Chronicles chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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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King James Version

And 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.

World English Bible

Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before Yahweh, which was at the Tent of Meeting, and offered one thousand burnt offerings on it.

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2 Chronicles 1:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 Now David had brought the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place he had prepared for it, because he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.

5 But the bronze altar made by Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, was in Gibeon before the tabernacle of the LORD. So Solomon and the assembly inquired of Him there.

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

7 That night God appeared to Solomon and said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”

8 Solomon replied to God: “You have shown much loving devotion to my father David, and You have made me king in his place.

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Hebrew words

וַיַּעַל֩and he went up שְׁלֹמֹ֨הSolomon שָׁ֜םthere עַלto מִזְבַּ֤ח[the] altar of הַנְּחֹ֙שֶׁת֙<the> bronze לִפְנֵ֣י<to> before יְהוָ֔הYahweh אֲשֶׁ֖רwhich לְאֹ֣הֶל[was] to [the] tent of מוֹעֵ֑דmeeting וַיַּ֧עַלand he offered up עָלָ֛יוon it עֹל֖וֹתburnt offerings אָֽלֶףa thousand

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

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.

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.

1 Chronicles 29:21
The next day they offered sacrifices and presented burnt offerings to the LORD: a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, along with their drink offerings, and other sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.

Isaiah 40:16
Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.

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