1 Kings 3:4
The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
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Joshua 9:3But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
1 Kings 8:63Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the LORD, twenty two thousand head of cattle and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the LORD’s house.
1 Chronicles 16:39and Zadok the priest and his brothers the priests, before the LORD’s tabernacle in the high place that was at Gibeon,
2 Chronicles 1:2Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers’ households.
2 Chronicles 1:6Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the LORD, which was at the Tent of Meeting, and offered one thousand burnt offerings on it.
2 Chronicles 29:32The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs. All these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.
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 →