2 Chronicles 8:12 Cross References - NSB

¹² Solomon offered burnt offerings to Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah he had built before the porch.

¹ King Solomon had a copper altar built. It was thirty feet square and fifteen feet high.

¹⁷ the pure gold for the forks, bowls, and pitchers, the weight of each gold bowl, the weight of each silver bowl,

⁸ Asa heard the prophet Oded’s words of prophecy. He was encouraged and put away the detestable idols from all of Judah, Benjamin, and the cities he had captured in the mountains of Ephraim. He also repaired Jehovah’s altar in front of Jehovah’s entrance hall.

¹⁶ So he took me to the inner courtyard of the Temple. There near the entrance of the sanctuary, between the altar and the porch, were about twenty-five men. They turned their backs to the sanctuary and were bowing low toward the east, worshiping the rising sun.

¹⁷ »Let the priests and the ministers of Jehovah weep between the Temple porch and the altar! Let them say: Spare your people, O Jehovah, and do not give reproach to your heritage. That the nations should rule over them and say among the peoples, ‘where is their God?«’

²³ It was wintertime. Jesus was walking in the temple on Solomon’s porch (the Colonnade of Solomon).