1 Kings 3:4
And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.
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In Context
5In Gibeon Jehovah appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
Cross References
Joshua 9:3But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
1 Kings 8:63And Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he offered unto Jehovah, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of Jehovah.
1 Chronicles 16:39and Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of Jehovah in the high place that was at Gibeon,
2 Chronicles 1:2And Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers` [houses].
2 Chronicles 1:6And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar before Jehovah, which was at the tent of meeting, and offered a thousand burnt-offerings upon it.
2 Chronicles 29:32And the number of the burnt-offerings which the assembly brought was threescore and ten bullocks, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt-offering to Jehovah.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 3:2-5
Solomon Marries Pharaoh's Daughter. ( b. c. 1014.) 1 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the Lord , and the wall of Jerusalem round about. 2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord , until those days. 3 And Solomon loved the Lord , walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and… Read the whole commentary →