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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 8:62-66

We read before that Judah and Israel were eating and drinking, and very cheerful under their own vines and fig-trees; here we have them so in God's courts. Now they found Solomon's words true concerning Wisdom's ways, that they are ways of pleasantness. I. They had abundant joy and satisfaction while they attended at God's house, for there, 1. Solomon offered a great sacrifice, 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep, enough to have drained the country of cattle if it had not been a very fruitful land.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 8:63

And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the Lord ,.... Part of which belonged to the offerer, and with those Solomon feasted the people all the days of the feast of the dedication, if not of tabernacles also; for the number was exceeding large, as follows: 22,000 oxen, and 120,000 sheep ; which, as suggested, might be the number for all the fourteen days; nor need it seem incredible, since, as Josephus F2 De Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 9. sect. 3. says, at... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 8:63

Two and twenty thousand oxen - This was the whole amount of the victims that had been offered during the fourteen days; i.e., the seven days of the dedication, and the seven days of the feast of tabernacles. In what way could they dispose of the blood of so many victims? read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 8:62-66

The Feast on the Sacrifices. In this prodigious number of sacrifices—in round numbers 150,000 victims—3,000 oxen and 18,000 sheep forevery day of the festival (Keil); five oxen and twenty-five sheep forevery minute of each day (Thenius)—in this wholesale slaughter, which converted the court of the priests into one great shambles, and almost choked the sewers of the temple with blood, one feature is liable to be overlooked (note on 1 Kings 8:64 ), namely, that all these sacrifices were " ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 8:63

And Solomon offered a sacrifice [Solomon is mentioned as chief donor, and as the executive. But others shared in the gift] of peace offerings [Le 1 Kings 7:11 sqq. This was especially the sacrifice of praise—it is called "the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings," ib . 1 Kings 7:13 , 1 Kings 7:15 . See Bähr, Symb. 2:368 sqq. In the peace offering, the fat was burnt on the altar, but the flesh was eaten ( 1 Kings 7:15 ; cf. Deuteronomy 12:7 ), so that this form of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 8:63

These numbers have been thought incredible, but they are not impossible. At least 100, 000, or 120, 000 men 1 Kings 8:65 were assembled; and as they all offered sacrifice with the king 1 Kings 8:62, the number of victims must have been enormous. Part of the flesh of so many victims would be eaten; but much of the meat may have been privately burned Leviticus 19:6, the object of the sacrifice being the glory of God, and not the convenience of the people. Profusion was a usual feature of the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 8:63

1 Kings 8:63 . And Solomon offered By the hands of the priests, two and twenty thousand oxen, &c. Not all in one day, but in seven, or, it may be, in the fourteen days mentioned 1 Kings 8:65. So the king and all Israel dedicated the house of the Lord Began to set it apart for the work and services of God by these sacrifices and holy exercises. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 8:22-66

The dedication ceremony (8:22-9:9)Solomon then went up on to a specially made bronze platform, knelt down and prayed to God in the presence of the assembled people (2 Chronicles 6:12-13). He admitted that only God’s grace had allowed his father and himself to fulfil their wish of building God a symbolic dwelling place. He prayed that God’s grace would rest likewise upon his royal descendants after him (22-26). Solomon knew there was no necessity for the temple, because God dwells everywhere.... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 8:63

1 Kings 8:63. Solomon offered—two and twenty thousand oxen, &c.— That is, he offered so many sacrifices during the whole space of time, the whole fourteen days; the seven days of the feast of dedication, and the seven days of the feast of tabernacles, spoken of in the next verse. See 2 Chronicles 7:8-9. This custom of dedicating temples was also common among the heathens. The Romans dedicated their temples, altars, public edifices, and the like. See Cicero's Orat. pro Domo sui, et Alex. ab... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 8:63

63. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord—The dedication was not a ceremony ordained by the law, but it was done in accordance with the sentiments of reverence naturally associated with edifices appropriated to divine worship. [See on :-.] read more