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2 Chronicles 7:5

in 2 Chronicles 7

And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

KJV

And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 7

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Twenty and two thousand oxen, etc. - The amount of all the victims that had been offered during the seven days of the feast of tabernacles, and the seven days of the feast of the dedication.

This site's exposition

Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices

on 2 Chronicles 7:4-6

The count is vast, “22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep,” more than the bronze altar could hold. So verse 7 consecrates the middle of the courtyard for more offerings. The Levites play “the musical instruments of the LORD, which King David had made,” the order Chronicles traces to 1 Chronicles 25.

This site's exposition

a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen

Clarke takes the figure as the total for both weeks, the seven days of dedication and the seven days of the Feast of Tabernacles. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown add a festival of that length gave time for so many victims to be offered. The whole nation shared in the act.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The sacrifices were so numerous that the altar could not contain them all; but, rather than any of them should be turned back (though we may suppose the blood of them all was sprinkled upon the altar), the flesh of the burnt-offerings and the fat of the peace-offerings were burnt in the midst of the court (

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The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּזְבַּ֞חand he sacrificed

    vaiyizbachH2076 →134 times

  • הַמֶּ֣לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹה֮Solomon

    shelomohH8010 →291 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • זֶ֣בַח[the] sacrifice of

    zevachH2077 →162 times

  • הַבָּקָ֗ר<the> cattle

    habakarH1241 →183 times

  • עֶשְׂרִ֤יםtwenty

    ʾesrimH6242 →315 times

  • וּשְׁנַ֙יִם֙and two

    ushenayimH8147 →768 times

  • אֶ֔לֶףthousand

    ʾelefH505 →505 times

  • וְצֹ֕אןand sheep

    vetzonH6629 →274 times

  • מֵאָ֥הone hundred

    meahH3967 →581 times

  • וְעֶשְׂרִ֖יםand twenty

    veesrimH6242 →315 times

  • אָ֑לֶףthousand

    ʾalefH505 →505 times

  • וַֽיַּחְנְכוּ֙and they dedicated

    vaiyachnekhuH2596 →

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • בֵּ֣ית[the] house of

    beitH1004 →2046 times

  • הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים<the> God

    haelohimH430 →2601 times

  • הַמֶּ֖לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הָעָֽם׃the people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 30:24

    For Hezekiah king of Judah contributed a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep for the assembly, and the officials contributed a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep for the assembly, and a great number…

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 29:34

      However, since there were not enough priests to skin all the burnt offerings, their Levite brothers helped them until the work was finished and until the priests had been consecrated. For the Levites had…

    • 2 Chronicles 35:7–8

      From his own flocks and herds Josiah contributed 30,000 lambs and goats plus 3,000 bulls for the Passover offerings for all the people who were present.

  • Through

    Numbers 7:10

    When the altar was anointed, the leaders approached with their offerings for its dedication and presented them before the altar.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 7:9

      On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar had lasted seven days, and the feast seven days more.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 45:17

    And it shall be the prince’s part to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—for all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 46:4–12

      The burnt offering that the prince presents to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six unblemished male lambs and an unblemished ram.

    • Isaiah 66:23

      From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come to worship before Me,” says the LORD.

    • 2 Chronicles 31:3

      The king contributed from his own possessions for the regular morning and evening burnt offerings and for the burnt offerings on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts, as written in the Law of…

    • Leviticus 23:1–44

      Then the LORD said to Moses,

    • 1 Kings 8:63–64

      And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Chronicles

Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Alfred Edersheim, The Temple: Its Ministry and Services; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.