1 Kings 8:63 (KJV)

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And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings which he offered unto the LORD two and twenty thousand oxen and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD

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a sacrifice. Le 3:1-17 1Ch 29:21 2Ch 15:11 2Ch 29:32-35 2Ch 30:24 2Ch 35:7-9 Ezr 6:16 Ezr 6:17 Eze 45:17 Mic 6:7

dedicated. Nu 7:10 Nu 7:11 Nu 7:84-88 2Ch 2:4 2Ch 7:5 Ezr 6:16 Ezr 6:17 Ne 12:27 Joh 10:22

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.

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