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2 Chronicles 1:6

in 2 Chronicles 1

Solomon offered sacrifices there before the LORD on the bronze altar in the Tent of Meeting, where he offered a thousand burnt offerings.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And 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.

KJV

And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the Lord, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 1

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
And Solomon went up thither,.... To the high place at Gibeon: to the brasen altar before the lord; where he used to be, and accept the sacrifices of his people, though the ark, the symbol of his presence, was not there: which was at the tabernacle of the congregation; that is, which altar was there; or rather "who", that is, God, was there, as Osiander, hearing the prayers of his people, and accepting their offerings: and offered a thousand offerings upon it; by the priests, see 1Ki 3:4.

This site's exposition

Bezaleel the son of Uri

on 2 Chronicles 1:5-6

The brasen altar Solomon approaches was made by Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, the same craftsman Exodus names for the tabernacle's furniture, tying Solomon's worship back to the pattern given at Sinai. His thousand burnt offerings are made at that altar rather than before the ark, healing in one act the split worship the previous verses named. Kings records the thousand offerings without naming the altar's maker; Chronicles supplies the craftsman and, with him, the line of continuity back to Moses.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

His father David had left him flocks and herds in abundance ( 1 Chron. xxvii. 29, 31 ), and thus he gave God his dues out of them. The ark was at Jerusalem (

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

offered a thousand burnt offerings--This holocaust he offered, of course, by the hands of the priests. The magnitude of the oblation became the rank of the offerer on this occasion of national solemnity. HIS CHOICE OF WISDOM IS BLESSED BY GOD.

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The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיַּעַל֩and he went up

    vaiyaalH5927890 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹ֨הSolomon

    shelomohH8010291 times

  • שָׁ֜םthere

    shamH8033834 times

  • עַל־to

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • מִזְבַּ֤ח[the] altar of

    mizbachH4196401 times

  • הַנְּחֹ֙שֶׁת֙<the> bronze

    hanechoshetH5178140 times

  • לִפְנֵ֣י<to> before

    lifneiH64402123 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֖רwhich

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • לְאֹ֣הֶל[was] to [the] tent of

    leohelH168345 times

  • מוֹעֵ֑דmeeting

    moedH4150223 times

  • וַיַּ֧עַלand he offered up

    vaiyaalH5927890 times

  • עָלָ֛יוon it

    ʾalavH59215755 times

  • עֹל֖וֹתburnt offerings

    olotH5930287 times

  • אָֽלֶף׃a thousand

    ʾalefH505505 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Kings 3:4

    Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 1:3

      And Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon because it was the location of God’s Tent of Meeting, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the…

    • 2 Chronicles 7:5

      And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

    • 1 Chronicles 16:39

      And David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon

    • 2 Chronicles 1:6–12

      Solomon offered sacrifices there before the LORD on the bronze altar in the Tent of Meeting, where he offered a thousand burnt offerings.

    • 1 Chronicles 21:29

      For the tabernacle of the LORD that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were presently at the high place in Gibeon,

  • Through

    1 Kings 8:63

    And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.

    it leads to

    • Ezra 6:16–17

      Then the people of Israel—the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles—celebrated the dedication of the house of God with joy.

  • Through

    Isaiah 40:16

    Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.

    it leads to

    • Micah 6:6–7

      With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?

    • Psalms 40:6

      Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Alfred Edersheim, The Temple: Its Ministry and Services; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.