1 Kings 8:63 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

And Solomon offered By the hands of the priests, two and twenty thousand oxen, &c. Not all in one day, but in seven, or, it may be, in the fourteen days mentioned 1 Kings 8:65. So the king and all Israel dedicated the house of the Lord Began to set it apart for the work and services of God by these sacrifices and holy exercises.

1 Kings 8:63

63 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.