2 Chronicles 7:4
New International 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.

English Standard Version
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.

King James Bible
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 American Standard Bible
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.

NASB 1995
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.

NASB 1977
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now the king and all the people were offering sacrifices before Yahweh.

Amplified Bible
Then the king and all the people offered a sacrifice before the LORD.

Christian Standard Bible
The king and all the people were offering sacrifices in the LORD’s presence.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The king and all the people were offering sacrifices in the LORD’s presence.

American Standard Version
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before Jehovah.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the King and all the people were sacrificing sacrifices to LORD JEHOVAH.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the king and all the people were offering sacrifices before the Lord.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the king and all the people sacrificed victims before the Lord.

English Revised Version
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices to the LORD.

Good News Translation
Then Solomon and all the people offered sacrifices to the LORD.

International Standard Version
Then the king and all the people kept on offering sacrifices in the presence of the LORD.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.

Literal Standard Version
And the king and all the people are sacrificing a sacrifice before YHWH,

Majority Standard Bible
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.

New American Bible
The king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.

NET Bible
The king and all the people were presenting sacrifices to the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.

New Heart English Bible
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.

World English Bible
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before Yahweh.

Young's Literal Translation
And the king and all the people are sacrificing a sacrifice before Jehovah,

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Context
Sacrifices of Dedication
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.…

Cross References
1 Kings 8:62
Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD.

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.

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.

Ezekiel 46:10
When the people enter, the prince shall go in with them, and when they leave, he shall leave.


Treasury of Scripture

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2 Chronicles 7
1. God having given testimony to Solomon's prayer by fire from heaven,
2. and glory in the temple, the people worship him
4. Solomon's solemn sacrifice
8. Solomon having kept the feasts of tabernacles and dedication, dismisses the people
12. God appearing to Solomon, gives him promises upon condition














(4-10) THE SACRIFICES AND THE FESTIVAL. (Comp. 1Kings 8:62-66.) The two narratives are again mainly coincident.

(4) Then.--And.

Offered sacrifices.--Were sacrificing a sacrifice. LXX., ??????? ??????. Vulg., "immolabant."

Verses 4, 5. - These two verses bring us again into company with the parallel in its vers. 62, 63. Let it be noticed that in both these verses the compiler of Chronicles avoids the words, "all Israel," and "all the children of Israel;" in favour of all the people. The parallel tells us that the sacrifices in part were peace offerings, eatable, therefore, by priests and people. Large as the numbers of the oxen and sheep sacrificed, yet indications in the narrative round about do something to sustain them, as e.g. the number of people who had come together; the fact that all the people are said to offer sacrifices; the fact that Solomon, Because of the press for room (ver. 7), hallowed the middle of the court, i.e. probably the court itself, in order to find place for the "burnt offerings, meat offerings, and fat" (ver. 7); further, the number of mouths of people that certainly would need filling, not only on one day, but on days more than one, while on the third day (Leviticus 19:6) any part of a peace offering still left was to be destroyed by fire. Nevertheless, the thought of the scene of butchery is, to our modern imagination, amazing to the last degree. An assemblage of people in Jerusalem, all making also for its temple, of a hundred and twenty thousand people, and a minimum of another twenty-two thousand people, is startling; but add to these a sheep apiece for the former number, and an ox apiece for the latter (a computation itself necessarily under the mark), and allow several days to be covered by the- killing and sacrificing, and one feels that the key and explanation of the present words of the Bible text in this very passage are scarcely in hand. The interesting note in the 'Speaker's Commentary' on 1 Kings 8:63 scarcely assists us. Its instances of the "profusion" of the "sacrifices of antiquity" are altogether and immensely distanced by the narrative before us, not only in the number of victims, but in respect of the time in which the victims had to be despatched and disposed of, and the place and space within which, if not the slaughtering, yet certainly the offering, had to be done.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then the king
וְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (wə·ham·me·leḵ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4428: A king

and all
וְכָל־ (wə·ḵāl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the people
הָעָ֑ם (hā·‘ām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

offered
זֹבְחִ֥ים (zō·ḇə·ḥîm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 2076: To slaughter for sacrifice

sacrifices
זֶ֖בַח (ze·ḇaḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2077: A slaughter, the flesh of an animal, a sacrifice

before
לִפְנֵ֥י (lip̄·nê)
Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

the LORD.
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


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