And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
Parallel translations
- WEB On the next day, the people rose early, and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
- BSB The next day the people got up early, built an altar there, and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings.
- NKJV So it was, on the next morning, that the people rose early and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
- NASB And it came about the next day that the people got up early and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
- NLT Early the next morning the people built an altar and presented their burnt offerings and peace offerings on it.
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Quick answer
The next day the people built an altar and offered burnt and peace offerings.
Overview
Their worship through sacrifice sought atonement and renewed fellowship with God amid the crisis. The burnt and peace offerings express both contrition and a desire for restored peace within the nation. Even in their confusion, Israel turned to God in worship, though the schemes that follow show worship without full wisdom or obedience.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- 2 Sam 24:25And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
- 1 Kgs 8:64The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
- Hos 5:15I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
- Ps 78:34–35When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
- 2 Sam 24:18And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
- Exod 20:24–25An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
- Heb 13:10We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
- Judg 6:26And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.
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