"And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the LORD, which {was} at the tabernacle of the congregation, and …" — 2 Chronicles 1:6

2 Chronicles 1:6 · KJV

“And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the LORD, which {was} at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.”

— 2 Chronicles 1:6

Verse 5

Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it. {he put: or, was there}

Verse 7

In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.

2 Chronicles 1 — Context

But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to {the place which} David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it. {he put: or, was there}

And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the LORD, which {was} at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.

In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.

And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:4

And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that {was} the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

1 Kings 8:63

And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.

1 Chronicles 29:21

And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, {even} a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, {and} a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:

Isaiah 40:16

And Lebanon {is} not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.