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Solomon offers the temple as a gift to God

62 Then the king and all the Israelite people who were with him offered sacrifices to the Lord.

63 These are the friendship offerings that Solomon offered to the Lord:

22,000 cows.

120,000 sheep and goats.

In this way, King Solomon and all the Israelite people offered the temple as a gift to the Lord.

64 On the same day, the king gave to the Lord the yard that was in front of the temple. King Solomon offered burnt offerings and grain offerings to the Lord. He also offered the fat from the friendship offerings. The bronze altar in front of the temple was too small to contain all these offerings.[a] So Solomon made these sacrifices in the middle of the yard instead.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:64 See Leviticus 1—3.

The Dedication of the Temple(A)

62 Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices(B) before the Lord. 63 Solomon offered a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to the Lord: twenty-two thousand cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep and goats. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated(C) the temple of the Lord.

64 On that same day the king consecrated the middle part of the courtyard in front of the temple of the Lord, and there he offered burnt offerings, grain offerings and the fat(D) of the fellowship offerings, because the bronze altar(E) that stood before the Lord was too small to hold the burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings.(F)

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