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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 5, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 43.

3905 — The Offerings of Solomon

By M. H. W.

Solomon offered 122,000 animals as burnt offerings. Explain how this was possible. 1 Kings 8:63.

According to our versions, 1 Kings 8:63 gives us 142,000 offerings. These offerings were the sum of all that were offered during the two weeks' feast, it seems without question. These would be 142,000 in fourteen days, or about 10,143 a day. If each day consisted of twelve hours — and that would probably be the case — or even longer than that, with the morning and evening offerings, then it would be but 845 an hour; and with the many priests, and the great altar, and probably many temporary altars, this would certainly not be a surprising thing, many of them being offered at one time.