Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 7:5
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.
4 10 (= 1Ki 8:62-66). The Great Feast of Dedication
5. twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep ] These high numbers appear also in 1 Kings.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 5. Twenty and two thousand oxen, &c.] 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.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
5, 6. so the king and all the peoplededicated the house of GodThe ceremonial of dedicationconsisted principally in the introduction of the ark into the temple,and in the sacrificial offerings that were made on a scale ofmagnitude suitable to the extraordinary occasion. All present, theking, the people, and the priests, took part according to theirrespective stations in the performance of the solemn service. Theduty, of course, devolved chiefly on the priests, and hence inproceeding to describe their several departments of work, thehistorian says, generally, “the priests waited on theiroffices.” While great numbers would be occupied with thepreparation and offering of the victims, others sounded with theirtrumpets, and the different bands of the Levites praised the Lordwith vocal and instrumental music, by thehundred thirty-sixth Psalm, the oft-recurring chorus of which is,”for His mercy endureth for ever.”
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
[See comments on 2Ch 7:4].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(5) And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen.Literally, the sacrifice of the oxen twenty and two thousand. Kings, the sacrifice of the peace offerings which he sacrificed to Jehovah, oxen twenty and two thousand. The italicised words seem to have fallen out of our text. The numbers are the same in both accounts.
The people.Kings has the old name, sons of Israel, and house of Jehovah for house of God.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
2Ch 7:5 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.
Ver. 5. Of twenty and two thousand oxen. ] The greatest offering that we do anywhere read of. The emperor’s hecatombs – wherein they gloried, and whereby they thought they merited – consisting of a hundred eagles, a hundred lions, a hundred swine, &c., offered to their gods, were nothing to it.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
God. Hebrew. ha-Elohim = the [true] God. App-4.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
a sacrifice: 2Ch 1:6, 2Ch 5:6, 2Ch 15:11, 2Ch 29:32, 2Ch 29:33, 2Ch 30:24, 2Ch 35:7-9, 1Ki 8:62, 1Ki 8:63, 1Ch 29:21, Ezr 6:16, Ezr 6:17, Eze 45:17, Mic 6:7
twenty and two: The number of sheep and oxen here mentioned has to some appeared incredibly large; but it must be considered that a prodigious number of persons was now at Jerusalem, and that this was the amount of all the victims that had been offered during the seven days of the feast of tabernacles, as well as the time the feast of the dedication lasted.
dedicated: 2Ch 2:4, Num 7:10, 1Ki 8:63, Ezr 6:16, Joh 10:22
Reciprocal: 2Sa 6:17 – offered 1Ki 3:4 – a thousand 1Ki 3:15 – peace offerings 2Ki 16:15 – the king’s burnt Neh 12:43 – offered Eze 46:10 – General Eze 46:12 – a voluntary