2 Chronicles 7:4
in 2 Chronicles 7Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.
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ASV
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before Jehovah.
KJV
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the Lord.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 7
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThe king and all the people offered sacrifices - They presented the victims to the priests, and they and the Levites slew them, and sprinkled the blood: or perhaps the people themselves slew them; and, having caught the blood, collected the fat, etc., presented them to the priests to be offered as the law required.
This site's exposition
offered sacrifices before the Lord
on 2 Chronicles 7:4-6
The scale is deliberately vast, twenty and two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep, more than one bronze altar was built to hold, which is why the next verse has to hallow the court itself for extra altars. The Levites minister on instruments of music of the Lord, which David the king had made to praise the Lord, the institution Chronicles alone traces to the singers appointed under Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun in 1 Chr 25, and the refrain his mercy endureth for ever sounds a second time in this chapter. Clarke reads the tally as the total offered across both the seven days of dedication and the seven days of the feast that followed, not one day's count.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
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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Then the king and all the people,.... Of these two verses; see Gill on 1Ki 8:62; see Gill on 1Ki 8:63.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices--Whether the individual worshippers slaughtered their own cattle, or a certain portion of the vast number of the Levitical order in attendance performed that work, as they sometimes did, in either case the offerings were made through the priests, who presented the blood and the fat upon the altar (see on 1Ki 8:62).
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ | vehamelekh | and the king | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| וְכָל־ | vekhol | and all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הָעָ֑ם | haam | the people | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| זֹבְחִ֥ים | zoechim | [were] sacrificing | H2076 → | 134 times |
| זֶ֖בַח | zevach | sacrifice[s] | H2077 → | 162 times |
| לִפְנֵ֥י | lifnei | <to> before | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| יְהוָֽה׃ ס | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
וְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְand the king
vehamelekhH4428 →2525 times
וְכָל־and all
vekholH3605 →5413 times
הָעָ֑םthe people
haamH5971 →1873 times
זֹבְחִ֥ים[were] sacrificing
zoechimH2076 →134 times
זֶ֖בַחsacrifice[s]
zevachH2077 →162 times
לִפְנֵ֥י<to> before
lifneiH6440 →2123 times
יְהוָֽה׃ סYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About 2 Chronicles
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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.