2 Chronicles 1:6-8

Contemporary English Version

⁶and there at the bronze altar, Solomon offered a thousand animals as sacrifices to please the Lord.^[a]

⁷God appeared to Solomon that night in a dream and said, “Solomon, ask for anything you want, and I will give it to you.”

⁸Solomon answered:

Lord God, you were always loyal to my father David, and now you have made me king of Israel.

1.6 sacrifices to please the Lord: These sacrifices have traditionally been called “whole burnt offerings,” because the whole animal was burned on the altar. A main purpose of such sacrifices was to please the Lord with the smell of the sacrifice, and so in the CEV they are often called “sacrifices to please the Lord.”