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Was Solomon alone when he sacrificed 1000 burnt offerings at Gibeon?
Kings names Solomon as the sacrificer; Chronicles adds the congregation. Kings never says he traveled or sacrificed alone.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Minor
- A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.
Both accounts credit Solomon with one thousand offerings; naming the congregation adds participants without contradicting any assertion of solitude.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Solomon offers one thousand sacrifices at Gibeon
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 3:4
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:1 Kings 3
Solomon visits Gibeon with the congregation and offers one thousand sacrifices
So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness. But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjath–jearim 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. And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the Lord, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and