5And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God.
And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)The temple, though richly beautified, yet while it was without the ark was like a body without a soul, or a candlestick without a candle, or (to speak more properly) a house without an inhabitant. All the cost and pains bestowed on this stately structure are lost if God do not accept them; and, unless he please to own it as the place where he will record his name, it is after all but a ruinous hea…
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