1 Reyes 8:63

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63 Como sacrificio de comuni贸n, Salom贸n ofreci贸 al SE脩OR veintid贸s mil bueyes y ciento veinte mil ovejas. As铆 fue como el rey y todos los israelitas dedicaron el templo del SE脩OR.

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1 Reyes 8:63 Meaning and 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 says, at a passover celebrated in the times of Cestius the Roman governor, at the evening of the passover, in two hours time 256,500 lambs were slain; however, this was a very munificent sacrifice of Solomon's, in which he greatly exceeded the Heathens, whose highest number of sacrifices were hecatombs, or by hundreds, but his by thousands:

so the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the
Lord;
devoted it to divine and religious worship by these sacrifices: hence in imitation of this sprung the dedication of temples with the Heathens; the first of which among the Romans was that in the capitol at Rome F3 by Romulus; the rites and ceremonies used therein by them may be read in Cicero, Livy, Tacitus, and others F4.


FOOTNOTES:

F2 De Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 9. sect. 3.
F3 Vid. Liv. Hist. Decad. 1. l. 1. p. s. & l. 2. p. 33.
F4 Vid. Hospinian. de Templis, l. 4. c. 2. p. 451. & Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 6. c. 14.
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1 Reyes 8:63 In-Context

61 Y ahora, ded铆quense por completo al SE脩OR nuestro Dios; vivan seg煤n sus decretos y cumplan sus mandamientos, como ya lo hacen禄.
62 Entonces el rey, con todo Israel, ofreci贸 sacrificios en presencia del SE脩OR.
63 Como sacrificio de comuni贸n, Salom贸n ofreci贸 al SE脩OR veintid贸s mil bueyes y ciento veinte mil ovejas. As铆 fue como el rey y todos los israelitas dedicaron el templo del SE脩OR.
64 Aquel mismo d铆a el rey consagr贸 la parte central del atrio, que est谩 frente al templo del SE脩OR, y all铆 present贸 los holocaustos, las ofrendas de cereales y la grasa de los sacrificios de comuni贸n, ya que el altar de bronce que estaba ante el SE脩OR era peque帽o y no hab铆a espacio para todos estos sacrificios y ofrendas.
65 Y as铆, en presencia del SE脩OR, Salom贸n y todo Israel celebraron la fiesta durante siete d铆as, extendi茅ndola luego siete d铆as m谩s: 隆catorce d铆as de fiesta en total! A la fiesta lleg贸 gente de todas partes, desde Leb贸 Jamat hasta el r铆o de Egipto, y se form贸 una gran asamblea.
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