1 Kings 3:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the principal high place; Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ The king went to Gibeon [near Jerusalem, where stood the tabernacle and the bronze altar] to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. One thousand burnt offerings Solomon offered on that altar.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

⁴ The king went to the great shrine at Gibeon in order to sacrifice there. He used to offer a thousand entirely burned offerings on that altar.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And so, he went away to Gibeon, so that he might immolate there; for that was the greatest high place. Solomon offered upon that altar, at Gibeon, one thousand victims as holocausts.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ He went therefore to Gabaon, to sacrifice there: for that was the great high place. A thousand victims for holocausts did Solomon offer upon that altar in Gabaon.

1 Kings 3:4 Cross References

1 Kings 8:4

So they brought up the ark of the Lord, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up.

1 Kings 8:63

Solomon offered as sacrifices of well-being to the Lord twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.

1 Kings 9:2

the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

1 Chronicles 16:39

And he left the priest Zadok and his kindred the priests before the tabernacle of the Lord in the high place that was at Gibeon,

1 Chronicles 21:29

For the tabernacle of the Lord that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were at that time in the high place at Gibeon,

2 Chronicles 1:2

Solomon summoned all Israel, the commanders of the thousands and of the hundreds, the judges, and all the leaders of all Israel, the heads of families.

2 Chronicles 1:3

Then Solomon and the whole assembly with him went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for God’s tent of meeting, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness, was there.

2 Chronicles 30:24

For King Hezekiah of Judah gave the assembly a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep for offerings, and the officials gave the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep. The priests sanctified themselves in great numbers.

2 Chronicles 7:5

King Solomon offered as a sacrifice twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

Isaiah 40:16

Lebanon would not provide fuel enough, nor are its animals enough for a burnt offering.]]

Jeremiah 28:1

In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord, in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying,

Joshua 10:2

he became greatly frightened, because Gibeon was a large city, like one of the royal cities, and was larger than Ai, and all its men were warriors.

Joshua 18:21

Now the towns of the tribe of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,

Joshua 9:3

But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

1 Samuel 13:9

So Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering here to me and the offerings of well-being.” And he offered the burnt offering.