Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built to the Lord, burning incense before the Lord. So he finished the house.
Exodus 23:14 - Revised Standard Version “Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to Me. American Standard Version (1901) Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. Common English Bible You should observe a festival for me three times a year. Catholic Public Domain Version Three times in each year, you shall celebrate feasts to me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me. |
Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built to the Lord, burning incense before the Lord. So he finished the house.
as the duty of each day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses for the sabbaths, the new moons, and the three annual feasts—the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tabernacles.
Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.
“The feast of unleavened bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.
“When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate; and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead.
counting fifty days to the morrow after the seventh sabbath; then you shall present a cereal offering of new grain to the Lord.
“Say to the people of Israel, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the feast of booths to the Lord.
“These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them.
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is the Lord's passover.
“Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover to the Lord your God; for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place which he will choose: at the feast of unleavened bread, at the feast of weeks, and at the feast of booths. They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed;
Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the Lord.