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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

2 Chronicles 7:4

Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices 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.
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.
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

1When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. 2The priests were unable to enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled it. 3When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD: "For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever." 4Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.5And 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. 6The priests stood at their posts, as did the Levites with the musical instruments of the LORD, which King David had made for giving thanks to the LORD and with which David had offered praise, saying, "For His loving devotion endures forever." Across from the Levites, the priests sounded trumpets, and all the Israelites were standing. 7Then Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar he had made could not contain all these offerings. 8So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him-a very great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt-observed the feast for seven days. 9On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar had lasted seven days, and the feast seven days more. 10On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the good things that the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel.

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
Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
Genesis 6:3
So the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years."
Genesis 6:7
So the LORD said, "I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth-every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air-for I am grieved that I have made them."
Genesis 6:13
Then God said to Noah, "The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
Genesis 6:17
And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth, to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
Genesis 7:10
And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Genesis 7:12
And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:17
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
Genesis 7:21
And every creature that had moved upon the earth perished-birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.

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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