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1 Kings 3:4-5

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3:4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. 1  Solomon would offer up 2  a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there. 3:5 One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared 3  to Solomon in a dream. God said, “Tell 4  me what I should give you.”

1 tn Heb “for it was the great high place.”

2 tn The verb form is an imperfect, which is probably used here in a customary sense to indicate continued or repeated action in past time. See GKC 314 §107.b.

3 tn Or “revealed himself.”

4 tn Heb “ask.”



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