Deu 20:5, 1Ki 8:63, 2Ch 7:5, 9, Ezr 6:16-17, Neh 12:27, 43 | TSK | STEP

Deuteronomy 20:5

the officers.

1:15; 16:18; Nu 31:14,48; 1Sa 17:18

dedicated.

Ne 12:27; Ps 30:1; *title

1 Kings 8:63

a sacrifice.

Le 3:1-17; 1Ch 29:21; 2Ch 15:11; 29:32-35; 30:24; 35:7-9

Ezr 6:16,17; Eze 45:17; Mic 6:7

two 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

2 Chronicles 7:5

a sacrifice.

1:6; 5:6; 15:11; 29:32,33; 30:24; 35:7-9; 1Ki 8:62,63; 1Ch 29:21

Ezr 6:16,17; Eze 45:17; Mic 6:7

twenty 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

2 Chronicles 7:9

solemn assembly. Heb. restraint.

Le 23:36; De 16:8; Ne 8:18; Joe 1:14

seven days.

30:23; 1Ki 8:65

Ezra 6:16-17

the children.

1Ch 9:2; Ne 7:73

children of the captivity. Chal. sons of the transportation.

4:1

the dedication.

1Ki 8:63; 2Ch 7:5,9; Joh 10:22

with joy.

22; 3:11,12; De 12:7; 1Ch 15:28; 2Ch 7:10; 30:23,26; Ne 8:10; 12:43

Ps 122:1; Php 4:4Having set up the worship of God in this dedication, they took care to keep it up, and made the book of Moses their rule, to which they had an eye in this establishment. Though the temple service could not now be performed with so much pomp and plenty as formerly, because of their poverty, yet no doubt it was performed with as much purity and close adherence to the Divine institutions as ever. No beauty is like the beauty of holiness.

offered.

8:35; Nu 7:2-89; 1Ki 8:63,64; 1Ch 16:1-3; 2Ch 7:5; 29:31-35

a sin offering.

Le 4:3,13,14,22,23,28; 2Ch 29:21-23

according 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

Nehemiah 12:27

A.M. 3559. B.C. 445. the dedication.Jerusalem was the holy city, and the wall was built under the immediate superintendence and blessing of Jehovah: it was therefore proper that it should be dedicated to that God who was there worshipped by solemn praises, prayers, and sacrifices. The dedication seems to have consisted in processions of the most eminent persons around the walls, with thanksgivings to God, who had enabled them to bring the work to so happy a conclusion; and, no doubt, to all this were added a particular consecration of the city to God, and the most earnest invocation that He would take it under His guardianship, and defend it and its inhabitants against their enemies.

De 20:5; Ps 30:1; *title

out.

11:20; 1Ch 15:4,12; 25:6; 26:31; 2Ch 5:13; 29:4-11,30; Ezr 8:15-20

gladness.

8:17; De 16:11; 2Sa 6:12; 2Ch 29:30; Ezr 6:16; Ps 98:4-6; 100:1,2

Php 4:4

thanksgivings.

1Ch 13:8; 15:16,28; 16:5,42; 23:5; 25:1-6; 2Ch 5:13; 7:6

Ezr 3:10,11; Ps 81:1-4; 92:1-3; 149:3; 150:2-5; Re 5:8