1 Kings 8:65

Contextual Overview

⁶²Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD . ⁶² Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the Lord . ⁶²Now the king and all Israel with him were offering sacrifices before Yahweh. ⁶² Now the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifice before the LORD. ⁶² And the king and al Israel with him offered offeringes before the Lorde. ⁶² And the king and all Israel with him were offering a sacrifice before Jehovah; ⁶² Then King Solomon and all the Israelites with him offered sacrifices to the Lord . ⁶² Then the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD. ⁶² The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh. ⁶² And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

held: 1 Kings 8:2, Leviticus 23:34-43, 2 Chronicles 7:8, 2 Chronicles 7:9

a great: 2 Chronicles 30:13, Psalms 40:9, Psalms 40:10

from the entering: 1 Kings 4:21, 1 Kings 4:24, Numbers 34:5, Numbers 34:8, Joshua 13:5, Judges 3:3, 2 Kings 14:25, Amos 6:14

the river: Genesis 15:18, Exodus 23:31, Numbers 34:5, Joshua 13:3

seven days: 2 Chronicles 7:8, 2 Chronicles 7:9, 2 Chronicles 30:23

Reciprocal: Joshua 19:35 - Hammath 1 Kings 3:15 - peace offerings 2 Kings 23:33 - Hamath 1 Chronicles 1:16 - Hamathite 1 Chronicles 13:5 - Hemath Jeremiah 52:9 - Hamath Ezekiel 11:10 - in Ezekiel 47:16 - Hamath John 7:2 - General John 7:37 - the last

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him,.... Partaking of the parts of the peace offerings which belonged to him, and were offered by way of thanksgiving on the occasion, together with whatsoever he might as a liberal prince provide for this entertainment:

for it was for a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt; consisting of a number of people, gathered together from Hamath, which was on the northern border of the land of Israel, to the river of Egypt; either the Nile, or Rhinoculura, a branch of it, which lay on the southern border of the land: and this was kept

before the Lord; as in his presence, with thankfulness to him, and with a view to his glory:

seven days and seven days, even fourteen days; seven days for the dedication of the house, and seven days for the feast of tabernacles, as the Targum; which agrees with 2 Chronicles 7:9, the feast of dedication was first, and began perhaps on the seventh day of the month, as the feast of tabernacles did on the fifteenth: within this time, namely, on the tenth, was a fast day, the day of atonement; which was either observed between the two feasts, or was omitted, which is not likely; or they did not eat and drink until the evening of that day. The Septuagint version, according to the Vatican copy, reads "seven days" only once; see 2 Chronicles 7:8.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A feast necessarily accompanied such a sacrifice as Solomon was holding. Compare Leviticus 19:5. On the present occasion there was a double festival - first, the Feast of the Dedication, from the 8th to the 15th of the month Ethanim (or Tisri), and then the Feast of tabernacles, from the 15th to the 22nd 1 Kings 8:2. On the day after this, “the eighth day,” counting from the commencement of the second seven, and the twenty-third day of the month (margin reference “m”), Solomon dismissed the people to their homes.

The entering in of Hamath - Compare Numbers 13:21, note andmargin reference. The phrase marks the extreme northern boundary of the holy land.

The river of Egypt - The Wady-el-Arish, the only large water-course on this coast (margin reference).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 65. From - Hamath — Supposed to be Antioch of Syria; unto the river of Egypt - to the Rhinocorura; the former being on the north, the latter on the south: i.e., from one extremity of the land to the other.