2 Chronicles 8:12

Modern

At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD he had built in front of the portico.

Traditional

Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the Lord on the altar of the Lord, which he had built before the porch,

Literal

Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to YHWH on the altar of YHWH, which he had built before the face of the portico,

Latin

Tunc obtulit Salomon holocausta Domino super altare Domini, quod exstruxerat ante porticum,

Hebrew

English

At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD he had built in front of the portico.

Theme notes and profiles

2 Chronicles 4:1
He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
Ezekiel 8:16
So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.
1 Chronicles 28:17
…the weight of the pure gold for the forks, sprinkling bowls, and pitchers; the weight of each gold dish; the weight of each silver bowl;
2 Chronicles 15:8
When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.
Joel 2:17
Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
John 10:23
…and Jesus was walking in the temple courts in Solomon’s Colonnade.

Solomon: Son of David, king of Israel, known for his wisdom