At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD he had built in front of the portico.
Parallel translations
- WEB Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on Yahweh’s altar, which he had built before the porch,
- KJV Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,
- NKJV Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had built before the vestibule,
- NASB Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had built in front of the porch;
- NLT Then Solomon presented burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar he had built for him in front of the entry room of the Temple.
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Quick answer
Solomon offers burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar before the temple porch. It shows him leading faithful worship after the temple's completion.
Overview
With the temple finished, Solomon establishes its sacrificial worship at the altar he had built. Burnt offerings expressed devotion and atonement before God. His leadership in worship models the king's role in directing the nation toward the LORD.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- 2 Chr 4:1He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
- 2 Chr 15:8When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.
- Joel 2:17Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
- 1 Chr 28:17the weight of the pure gold for the forks, sprinkling bowls, and pitchers; the weight of each gold dish; the weight of each silver bowl;
- John 10:23and Jesus was walking in the temple courts in Solomon’s Colonnade.
- Ezek 8:16So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.
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