1 Kings 3:4

So then the king went to Gibeon, to sacrifice there, for, that, was the great high place,—a thousand ascending-sacrifices, did Solomon offer up on that altar.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

3Solomon loved Yahweh, by walking in the statutes of David his father,—save only, that, in the high places, he himself, was sacrificing and offering incense.

5In Gibeon, Yahweh appeared unto Solomon, in a dream by night,—and God said, Ask, what I shall give thee.

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Cross References

Joshua 9:3Now, the inhabitants of Gibeon, heard that which Joshua had done unto Jericho and unto Ai;

1 Kings 8:63So Solomon offered as a sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he offered unto Yahweh—Oxen, two and twenty thousand, and Sheep, a hundred and twenty thousand,—Thus did, the king and all the sons of Israel, dedicate the house of Yahweh.

1 Chronicles 16:39and Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the habitation of Yahweh,—in the high place that was in Gibeon:

2 Chronicles 1:2And Solomon gave word to all Israel—to the rulers of thousands, and hundreds, and to the judges, and to all the leaders of all Israel, ancestral chiefs;

2 Chronicles 1:6And Solomon went up thither, unto the altar of bronze before Yahweh, which belonged to the tent of meeting,—and caused to go up thereon a thousand ascending-sacrifices.

2 Chronicles 29:32And it came to pass that, the number of ascending-sacrifices which the convocation brought, was—seventy bullocks, and a hundred rams, and two hundred young sheep,—as an ascending-sacrifice unto Yahweh, all these.

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 →

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