Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
These numbers have been thought incredible, but they are not impossible. At least 100, 000, or 120, 000 men I Kings 8:65 were assembled; and as they all offered sacrifice with the king I Kings 8:62, the number of victims must have been enormous. Part of the flesh of so many victims would be eaten; but much of the meat may have been privately burned Leviticus 19:6, the object of the sacrifice being the glory of God, and not the convenience of the people. Profusion was a usual feature of the sacrifices of antiquity.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Kings 8:63:
1 Samuel 2:32
1 Samuel 6:15
2 Samuel 6:16
2 Kings 10:25
2 Chronicles 15:11
Ezekiel 43:18
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