2 Chronicles 8:12
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New International Version (©2011)
On the altar of the LORD that he had built in front of the portico, Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the LORD,

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then Solomon presented burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar he had built for him in front of the entry room of the Temple.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD that he had built before the vestibule,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD which he had built before the porch;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the LORD's altar he had made in front of the portico.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the LORD's altar that he had built in front of the porch of the Temple,

NET Bible (©2006)
Then Solomon offered burnt sacrifices to the LORD on the altar of the LORD which he had built in front of the temple's porch.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the LORD on the LORD's altar that he built in front of the entrance hall.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the vestibule,

American King James Version
Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,

American Standard Version
Then Solomon offered burnt-offerings unto Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah, which he had built before the porch,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Solomon offered holocausts to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord which he had built before the porch,

Darby Bible Translation
Then Solomon offered up burnt-offerings to Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah, which he had built before the porch;

English Revised Version
Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,

Webster's Bible Translation
Then Solomon offered burnt-offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,

World English Bible
Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of Yahweh, which he had built before the porch,

Young's Literal Translation
Then hath Solomon caused to ascend burnt-offerings to Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah that he built before the porch,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:1 - 18 Solomon's buildings and trade. - It sometimes requires more wisdom and resolution to govern a family in the fear of God, than to govern a kingdom with reputation. The difficulty is increased, when a man has a hinderance instead of a help meet in the wife of his bosom. Solomon kept up the holy sacrifices, according to the law of Moses. In vain had the altar been built, in vain had fire come down from heaven, if sacrifices had not been constantly brought. Spiritual sacrifices are required of us, which we are to bring daily and weekly; it is good to be in a settled method of devotion. When the service of the temple was put into good order, it is said, The house of the Lord was perfected. The work was the main matter, not the place; the temple was unfinished till all this was done. Canaan was a rich country, and yet must send to Ophir for gold The Israelites were a wise people, but must be beholden to the king of Tyre for men that had knowledge of the seas. Grace, and not gold, is the best riches, and acquaintance with God and his law, the best knowledge. Leaving the children of this world to scramble for the toys of this world, may we, as the children of God, lay up our treasure in heaven, that where our treasure is, our hearts also may be.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 12, 13. - Parallel in compressed form 1 Kings 9:25. After a certain rate every day; Hebrew, וּבִדְבַר־יום; the probable meaning is, according to the fixed appointment of day after day (Exodus 23:14; Exodus 29:23, 38; Numbers 28:3; Deuteronomy 16:16).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the Lord,.... Meaning not barely at the time he rebuilt the above cities, for it was his constant practice:

on the altar of the Lord, which he had built before the porch; the brasen altar, which was at the entrance into the temple, within the court; of which see 2 Chronicles 4:1.

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Solomon's Additional Accomplishments
…11And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD has come. 12Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch, 13Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. …

2 Chronicles 4:1 He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.
2 Chronicles 15:8 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage. He removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns he had captured in the hills of Ephraim. He repaired 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. Let them say, "Spare your people, LORD. Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"