1 Kings 3:4
ContextNET © | 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. |
NIV © | The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for that was the most important high place, and Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. |
NASB © | The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place; Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. |
NLT © | The most important of these altars was at Gibeon, so the king went there and sacrificed one thousand burnt offerings. |
MSG © | The king went to Gibeon, the most prestigious of the local shrines, to worship. He sacrificed a thousand Whole-Burnt-Offerings on that altar. |
BBE © | And the king went to Gibeon to make an offering there, because that was the chief high place: it was Solomon’s way to make a thousand burned offerings on that altar. |
NRSV © | The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the principal high place; Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. |
NKJV © | Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place: Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. |
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NET © | 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. |
NET © Notes |
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. |