◄ 2 Chronicles 8:12 ►
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Good News Translation
Solomon offered sacrifices to the LORD on the altar which he had built in front of the Temple.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD that he had built in front of the vestibule,

Contemporary English Version
Solomon offered sacrifices to the LORD on the altar he had built in front of the temple porch.

New American Bible
In those times Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the LORD upon the altar of the LORD which he had built in front of the porch,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Solomon offered holocausts to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord which he had built before the porch,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then Solomon offered holocausts to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord which he had built before the porch,

on the altar

2 Chronicles 4:1 He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits broad, and ten cubits high.

1 Chronicles 28:17 For fleshhooks also, and bowls, and censors of fine gold, and for little lions of gold, according to the measure he gave by weight, for every lion. In like manner also for lions of silver he set aside a different weight of silver.

Ezekiel 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord: and behold at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men having their backs towards the temple of the Lord, in their faces to the east: and they adored towards the rising of the sun.

Joel 2:17 Between the porch and the altar the priests, the Lord's ministers, shall weep, and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare thy people: and give not thy inheritance to reproach, that the heathens should rule over them. Why should they say among the nations: Where is their God?

before the porch

John 10:23 And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch.

Context
Solomon's Additional Accomplishments
…11And he removed the daughter of Pharao from the city of David, to the house which he had built for her. For the king said: My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, for it is sanctified: because the ark of the Lord came into it. 12Then Solomon offered holocausts to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord which he had built before the porch,13That every day an offering might be made on it according to the ordinance of Moses, in the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the festival days three times a year, that is to say, in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 4:1
He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits broad, and ten cubits high.

2 Chronicles 15:8
And when Asa had heard the words, and the prophecy of Azarias the son of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and took away the idols out of all the land of Juda, and out of Benjamin, and out of the cities of mount Ephraim, which he had taken, and he dedicated the altar of the Lord, which was before the porch of the Lord.

Joel 2:17
Between the porch and the altar the priests, the Lord's ministers, shall weep, and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare thy people: and give not thy inheritance to reproach, that the heathens should rule over them. Why should they say among the nations: Where is their God?

2 Chronicles 8:11
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