And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen. — Literally, the sacrifice of the oxen twenty and two thousand. Kings, “the sacrifice of the peace offerings which he sacrificed to Jehovah, oxen twenty and two thousand.” The italicised words seem to have fallen out of our text. The numbers are the same in both accounts.

The people. — Kings has the old name, sons of Israel, and house of Jehovah for house of God.

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