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Then the king and all Israel with him immolated their victims in the Lord’s presence; (1 Kings 8, 62)
twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep were slaughtered as Solomon’s welcome-offering to the Lord. Thus the king and the men of Israel dedicated the temple. (1 Kings 8, 63)
That day, the king must needs hallow the middle part of the court before the Lord’s house, burning there the burnt-sacrifice, and the bloodless offerings, and the fat taken from the welcome-victims; there was no room for these on the brazen altar that stood there in the Lord’s presence. (1 Kings 8, 64)
High festival king Solomon kept at this time before the Lord our God, and with him a great multitude from the whole land of Israel, that stretched from the pass of Emath down to the River of Egypt. Fourteen days it lasted, a whole week and then a second week;✻ (1 Kings 8, 65)
and at last, when the eighth day came, the king sent the people home. So back they went to their dwelling-places, rejoicing with full hearts over all the mercies the Lord had shewn to his servant David, and to his own people of Israel. (1 Kings 8, 66)
When Solomon had finished building temple and palace, and achieved all his purpose, (1 Kings 9, 1)
It was twenty years after Solomon had finished the two buildings, temple and palace, (1 Kings 9, 10)
that Hiram, king of Tyre, who had sent him the cedar and the fir-wood and the gold he needed for his undertaking, received twenty townships from him, belonging to the land of Galilee. (1 Kings 9, 11)
And when he came on a visit from Tyre to see the townships Solomon had allotted to him, he liked them but little; (1 Kings 9, 12)
It was twenty thousand talents’ weight of gold that Hiram sent to king Solomon. (1 Kings 9, 14)
As for the reasons why king Solomon made such heavy disbursements, they were these; he must build the temple, and the palace, and Mello, and Jerusalem wall, and Heser, and Mageddo, and Gazer. (1 Kings 9, 15)
Gazer had been taken and burnt by the invading army of Pharao, king of Egypt; its inhabitants, who were Chanaanites, he put to the sword, and later gave it by way of dowry when his daughter married king Solomon. (1 Kings 9, 16)
