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.