Delightful Tracings in the Word

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In the well known chapter 22 of Genesis, where Abraham was told to offer up his son Isaac on Mount Moriah, six times it is called the burnt offering. This same most significant place on earth is where David also built an altar and offered up burnt offerings to Jehovah (1 Chron. 21 and 22:1), and where his son Solomon built the magnificent temple of worship to Jehovah (2 Chron. 3:11Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. (2 Chronicles 3:1)). "The place which the Lord your God shall chose... to put His name there.... His habitation... thither thou shalt come; and thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings," Deut. 12:5,65But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: 6And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: (Deuteronomy 12:5‑6). (Before Solomon built the temple "he offered up a thousand burnt offerings upon" the brazen altar which was before the tabernacle pitched in Gibeon, 1 Kings 3:44And 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)). When the temple was finished and dedicated, in the middle of the court "he offered burnt offerings...because the brazen altar was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings," 1 Kings 8:6464The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brazen altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings. (1 Kings 8:64), 2 Chron. 7:1-71Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the house. 2And the priests could not enter into the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord's house. 3And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the Lord upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. 4Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the Lord. 5And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. 6And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of music of the Lord, which David the king had made to praise the Lord, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood. 7Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat. (2 Chronicles 7:1‑7). On the same momentous occasion when they brought the ark into the temple they "sacrificed sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude," 1 Kings 8:55And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude. (1 Kings 8:5) and 2 Chron. 5:66Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude. (2 Chronicles 5:6).