2 Chronicles 8:12

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“At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD he had built in front of the portico.”

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BSBPD

“At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD he had built in front of the portico.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the Lord on the altar of the Lord, which he had built before the porch,”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Then Solomon offered burnt-offerings unto Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah, which he had built before the porch,”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Then hath Solomon caused to ascend burnt-offerings to Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah that he built before the porch,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 2 Chronicles 8:12 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 1 Chronicles 28:17the weight of the pure gold for the forks, sprinkling bowls, and pitchers; the weight of each gold dish; the weight of each silver bowl;
  2. 2 Chronicles 1:6Solomon offered sacrifices there before the LORD on the bronze altar in the Tent of Meeting, where he offered a thousand burnt offerings.
  3. 2 Chronicles 4:1He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
  4. 2 Chronicles 15:8When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.
  5. Ezekiel 8:16So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.
  6. Ezekiel 45:17And it shall be the prince’s part to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—for all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.
  7. Joel 2:17Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
  8. John 10:23and Jesus was walking in the temple courts in Solomon’s Colonnade.

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