1 Kings 8:62-65
2Sa 6:17-19; 2Ch 7:4-7 a sacrifice.Le 3:1-17; 1Ch 29:21; 2Ch 15:11; 29:32-35; 30:24; 35:7-9Ezr 6:16,17; Eze 45:17; Mic 6:7two and twenty.We are not to suppose that all these victims were sacrificed in one day, or on one altar; for this was the whole amount of those that had been offered during the fourteen days which the feast of dedication and the feast of tabernacles lasted; and there appears to have been an altar erected in the middle of the court, which was set apart for that purpose, in consequence of the great altar of burnt offering being not sufficient for the multitude of sacrifices then offered. dedicated.Nu 7:10,11,84-88; 2Ch 2:4; 7:5; Ezr 6:16,17; Ne 12:27; Joh 10:22 hallow.2Ch 7:7the brasen.2Ch 4:1 held.2; Le 23:34-43; 2Ch 7:8,9a great.2Ch 30:13; Ps 40:9,10from the entering.4:21,24; Nu 34:5,8; Jos 13:5; Jud 3:3; 2Ki 14:25; Am 6:14the river.Ge 15:18; Ex 23:31; Nu 34:5; Jos 13:3seven days.2Ch 7:8,9; 30:232 Chronicles 7:4-9
Then the king.They presented the victims to the priests, and they and the Levites slew them, and sprinkled the blood; or, perhaps, the people themselves slew them, and having caught the blood, collected the fat, etc., presented them to the priests to be offered as the law required. 4 a sacrifice.1:6; 5:6; 15:11; 29:32,33; 30:24; 35:7-9; 1Ki 8:62,63; 1Ch 29:21Ezr 6:16,17; Eze 45:17; Mic 6:7twenty and two.The number of sheep and oxen here mentioned has to some appeared incredibly large; but it must be considered that a prodigious number of persons was now at Jerusalem, and that this was the amount of all the victims that had been offered during the seven days of the feast of tabernacles, as well as the time the feast of the dedication lasted. dedicated.2:4; Nu 7:10; 1Ki 8:63; Ezr 6:16; Joh 10:22 the priests.1Ch 16:39,40; 24:1-3the Levites.29:25; 1Ch 6:31,32; 15:16-21; 16:4-6,41,42; 25:1-7; Ps 87:7which David.Am 6:5because his mercy.3; 1Ch 16:34; Ps 106:1; 107:1; 118:1-4; 138:8ministry. Heb. hand.Isa 52:6the priests.5:12; Nu 10:1-10; Jos 6:4; 1Ch 13:8; 15:24; 16:6,42 hallowed.36:14; Nu 16:37,38; 1Ki 8:64; Heb 13:10-12the brazen.4:1 kept.Le 23:34-43; Nu 29:12-38; De 16:13-15; 1Ki 8:65; Ne 8:13-18Zec 14:16-19; Joh 7:2,27-39a very great.30:13from the entering.That is, from one extremity of the land to another; Hamath being situated on the north, and the river of Egypt on the south. Ge 15:18; Nu 34:5-8; Jos 13:3-5; 1Ki 4:21-25; Am 6:14 solemn assembly. Heb. restraint.Le 23:36; De 16:8; Ne 8:18; Joe 1:14seven days.30:23; 1Ki 8:65Ezra 6:17
offered.8:35; Nu 7:2-89; 1Ki 8:63,64; 1Ch 16:1-3; 2Ch 7:5; 29:31-35a sin offering.Le 4:3,13,14,22,23,28; 2Ch 29:21-23according to.Though the tribes of Benjamin and Judah, with the priests and Levites, formed the bulk of the people, yet many from the other tribes had returned with them from captivity. 1Ki 18:31; Lu 22:30; Re 7:4-8; 21:12
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