Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.

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 the notes at 1 Kings 8:62).

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