1 Kings 3:4 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁴ And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place; Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings upon 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

And 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 peace offerings to the Lord twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and 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 Zadok the priest and his brethren the priests before the tabernacle of the Lord in the high place that was at Gibeon,

1 Chronicles 21:29

For the tabernacle of the Lord, which 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 spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers' houses.

2 Chronicles 1:3

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

2 Chronicles 30:24

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

2 Chronicles 7:5

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

Isaiah 40:16

Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.

Jeremiah 28:1

In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet 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 feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

Joshua 18:21

Now the cities 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 peace offerings.” And he offered the burnt offering.