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JPS Old Testament

2 Chronicles 7:4

And the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Solomon;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Atonement, Day of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The king and all the people were offering sacrifices in the Lord’s presence.
Hebrew Names Version
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.
King James Version
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the Lord .
English Standard Version
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the Lord .
New Century Version
Then King Solomon and all the people offered sacrifices to the Lord .
New English Translation
The king and all the people were presenting sacrifices to the Lord .
Amplified Bible
Then the king and all the people offered a sacrifice before the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.
World English Bible
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before Yahweh.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the King and all the people offred sacrifices before the Lord.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now the king and all the people were offering sacrifices before Yahweh.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.
Contemporary English Version
Solomon and the people dedicated the temple to the Lord by sacrificing twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred twenty thousand sheep.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before Adonai .
Darby Translation
And the king and all the people offered sacrifices before Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then King Solomon and all the Israelites offered sacrifices to the Lord .
George Lamsa Translation
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.
Good News Translation
Then Solomon and all the people offered sacrifices to the Lord .
Lexham English Bible
Then the king and all the people were offering a sacrifice before Yahweh.
Literal Translation
And the king and all the people were offering a sacrifice before Jehovah;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for the kynge and all the people, they offred before the LORDE.
American Standard Version
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
Then the king and all the people made offerings before the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the Lorde.
King James Version (1611)
Then the King and all the people, offered sacrifices before the Lord.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the king and all the people were offering sacrifices before the Lord.
English Revised Version
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe the kyng and al the puple offriden slayn sacrifices bifor the Lord.
Update Bible Version
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.
New King James Version
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.
New Living Translation
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices to the Lord .
New Life Bible
Then the king and all the people gave gifts to the Lord.
New Revised Standard
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the king and all the people, were offering sacrifice before Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the king and all the people sacrificed victims before the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.
Young's Literal Translation
And the king and all the people are sacrificing a sacrifice before Jehovah,
THE MESSAGE
Then the king and all Israel worshiped, offering sacrifices to God . King Solomon worshiped by sacrificing 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep at the dedication of The Temple. The priests were all on duty; the choir and orchestra of Levites that David had provided for singing and playing anthems to the praise and love of God were all there; across the courtyard the priests blew trumpets. All Israelites were on their feet.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.

Contextual Overview

1 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt-offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house. 2 And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD filled the LORD'S house. 3 And all the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD was upon the house; and they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and prostrated themselves, and gave thanks unto the LORD; 'for He is good, for His mercy endureth for ever.' 4 And the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD. 5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. 6 And the priests stood, according to their offices; the Levites also with instruments of music of the LORD, which David the king had made, to give thanks unto the LORD, for His mercy endureth for ever, with the praises of David by their hand; and the priests sounded trumpets over against them; and all Israel stood. 7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered the burnt-offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings; because the brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt-offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat. 8 So Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entrance of Hamath unto the Brook of Egypt. 9 And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. 10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away unto their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that the LORD had shown unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel His people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Then the king: They presented the victims to the priests, and they and the Levites slew them, and sprinkled the blood; or, perhaps, the people themselves slew them, and having caught the blood, collected the fat, etc., presented them to the priests to be offered as the law required. 2 Chronicles 7:4

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:62 - General 2 Kings 16:15 - the king's burnt 1 Chronicles 29:21 - sacrificed Ezekiel 45:17 - the prince's Ezekiel 46:10 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 2:5
No shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground;
Genesis 6:3
And the LORD said: 'My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for that he also is flesh; therefore shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.'
Genesis 6:7
And the LORD said: 'I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and creeping thing, and fowl of the air; for it repenteth Me that I have made them.'
Genesis 6:13
And God said unto Noah: 'The end of all flesh is come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 6:17
And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; every thing that is in the earth shall perish.
Genesis 7:10
And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Genesis 7:12
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:17
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
Genesis 7:21
And all flesh perished that moved upon the earth, both fowl, and cattle, and beast, and every swarming thing that swarmeth upon the earth, and every man;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 4,5. Then the king and all the people,.... Of these two verses,

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Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 7:4. The king and all the people offered sacrifices — They presented the victims to the priests, and they and the Levites slew them, and sprinkled the blood: or perhaps the people themselves slew them; and, having caught the blood, collected the fat, &c., presented them to the priests to be offered as the law required.


 
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