2 Chronicles 1:6 - Exposition

A thousand burnt offerings . The first instance of the burnt offering is Genesis 8:20 , and thereafter in the same book Genesis 15:9 , Genesis 15:17 ; Genesis 22:2 , Genesis 22:7 , Genesis 22:13 . It was manifestly the chiefest of the eucharistic kind of sacrifices, and for manifest reasons also was preceded by a "sin" offering ( Exodus 29:36-38 ; Le Exodus 8:14 , etc.). (For full details of the ceremonial, see Leviticus 1:1-17 ; Leviticus 6:1-30 ; Leviticus 7:1-38 ; Leviticus 8:1-36 , passim ) The extraordinary number of the burnt offerings on this and some similar occasions may well excite our wonder ( Numbers 7:3 , Numbers 7:17 ; 1 Kings 8:64 ; 2 Chronicles 4:1 compared with 2 Chronicles 7:7 . See also Herod; 'Hist.,' 7.43). The priests, of course, performed the sacrifices at the command of Solomon.