2-Chronicles - 7:4



4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before Yahweh.

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Explanation and meaning of 2-Chronicles 7:4.

Differing Translations

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Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.
And the king and all the people sacrificed victims before the Lord.
And the king and all the people are sacrificing a sacrifice before Jehovah,
Then the king and all the people made offerings before the Lord.
Then the king and all the people were immolating victims before the Lord.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

The king and all the people offered sacrifices - They presented the victims to the priests, and they and the Levites slew them, and sprinkled the blood: or perhaps the people themselves slew them; and, having caught the blood, collected the fat, etc., presented them to the priests to be offered as the law required.

Then the king and all the people,.... Of these two verses; see Gill on 1-Kings 8:62; see Gill on 1-Kings 8:63.

SOLOMON'S SACRIFICES. (2-Chronicles 7:4-11)
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices--Whether the individual worshippers slaughtered their own cattle, or a certain portion of the vast number of the Levitical order in attendance performed that work, as they sometimes did, in either case the offerings were made through the priests, who presented the blood and the fat upon the altar (see on 1-Kings 8:62).

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