Because God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord, with God’s help, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
Malachi 3:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised And the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will please the Lord as in days of old and years gone by. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then will the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in ancient years. American Standard Version (1901) Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto Jehovah, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years. Common English Bible The offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in ancient days and in former years. Catholic Public Domain Version And the sacrifice of Judah and of Jerusalem will please the Lord, just as in the days of past generations, and as in the ancient years. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the sacrifice of Juda and of Jerusalem shall please the Lord, as in the days of old, and in the ancient years. |
Because God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord, with God’s help, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
He built an altar to the Lord there and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He called on the Lord, and he answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.
Solomon offered sacrifices there in the Lord’s presence on the bronze altar at the tent of meeting; he offered a thousand burnt offerings on it.
I will bring them to my holy mountain and let them rejoice in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be acceptable on my altar, for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.’
The Lord says this: ‘I will return to Zion and live in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City; the mountain of the Lord of Armies will be called the Holy Mountain.’