Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire congregation of Israel and spread out his hands towards heaven.
2 Chronicles 4:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised He made a bronze altar nine metres long, nine metres wide, and four and a half metres high. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition ALSO SOLOMON made an altar of bronze, its top twenty by twenty cubits and its height ten cubits. American Standard Version (1901) Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof. Common English Bible He also made a bronze altar thirty feet long, thirty feet wide, and fifteen feet high. Catholic Public Domain Version Also, he made a brass altar of twenty cubits in length, and of twenty cubits in width, and of ten cubits in height, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits broad, and ten cubits high. |
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire congregation of Israel and spread out his hands towards heaven.
On the same day, the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard that was in front of the Lord’s temple because that was where he offered the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the fat of the fellowship offerings, since the bronze altar before the Lord was too small to accommodate the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the fellowship offerings.
Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord, and he burned incense with them in the Lord’s presence. So he completed the temple.
but he put the bronze altar, which Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, in front of the Lord’s tabernacle. Solomon and the assembly enquired of him there.
When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the abhorrent idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He renovated the altar of the Lord that was in front of the portico of the Lord’s temple.
Then they went inside to King Hezekiah and said, ‘We have cleansed the whole temple of the Lord, the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the table for the rows of the Bread of the Presence and all its utensils.
Since the bronze altar that Solomon had made could not accommodate the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the fat of the fellowship offerings, Solomon first consecrated the middle of the courtyard that was in front of the Lord’s temple and then offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings there.
At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the Lord on the Lord’s altar he had made in front of the portico.