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Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 9:25

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

1 Kings9:25

25 ¶ And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt-offerings, and peace-offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the LORD: so he finished the house .

i. e. At the three Solemn Feasts. Which is not said exclusively, as is evident both from 2 Chron. 8. 13. and from the express and oft-repeated Commands of God to offer at other times, which it is absurd to think that Solomon, not yet fallen into sin, should so wickedly and scandalously neglect; but because then he did it more Solemnly, and more costlily, and more publickly: whereby it might be presumed, that he did so at all other appointed times.

Or, so he perfected the house, to wit, by applying it to the use for which it was made, in which the perfection of such things consists. Or, the house may be put Metonymically for the Work or Service of the House, as it is elsewhere commonly used for the things or persons in the House. Or, the words may be, and are rendred thus, After that (for so the Hebrew Vau oft signifies, as Isa. 37. 9, 36. Hos. 1. 11. Zech. 12. 2.) he finished the house; i. e. From the time of the finishing of the House, until this time, he continued to do so.

Marginal references: Heb. upon it.

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