2 Chronicles 7:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.

2 Chronicles 7:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 8:62-63
And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

Here is, I. The gracious answer which God immediately made to Solomon’s prayer: The fire came down from heaven and consumed the sacrifice, 2 Chron. 7:1. In this way God testified his acceptance of Moses (Lev. 9:24), of Gideon (Jdg. 6:21), of David (1 Chron. 21:26), of Elijah (1 Kgs. 18:38); and, in general, to accept the burnt-sacrifice is, in the Hebrew phrase, to turn it to ashes, Ps. 20:3. The…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices--Whether the individual worshippers slaughtered their own cattle, or a certain portion of the vast number of the Levitical order in attendance performed that work, as they sometimes did, in either case the offerings were made through the priests, who presented the blood and the fat upon the altar (see on 1Ki 8:62).