Numbers 7:10
princes.Every prince, or chief, offered in the behalf, and doubtless at the expense, of his whole tribe. dedicating.De 20:5; 1Ki 8:63; 2Ch 7:5,9; Ezr 6:16,17; Ne 12:27,43Ps 30:1; *title Joh 10:22 1 Kings 8:63
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 2 Chronicles 2:4
build.1; 1Ki 8:18to dedicate.1Ki 8:63to burn.Ex 30:7sweet incense. Heb. incense of spices. the continual.Ex 25:30; Le 24:5-9the burnt.Ex 29:38-42; Nu 28:3,4,9-11the solemn feasts.Le 23:1-17; Nu 28:1-29:40 Ezra 6:16
the children.1Ch 9:2; Ne 7:73children of the captivity. Chal. sons of the transportation.4:1the dedication.1Ki 8:63; 2Ch 7:5,9; Joh 10:22with joy.22; 3:11,12; De 12:7; 1Ch 15:28; 2Ch 7:10; 30:23,26; Ne 8:10; 12:43Ps 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. John 10:22
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