1 Chronicles 29:21

The next day they offered sacrifices and presented burnt offerings to the LORD: a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, along with their drink offerings, and other sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — Following David’s instruction to bless the Lord and the assembly’s homage, the people present sacrifices to Yahweh before Solomon’s second anointing. This occurs on the day after the initial dedication events, marking the conclusion of the royal transition.

The words — The text records זְבָחִים (zevachim), meaning sacrifices, and עֹלֹת (olot), meaning burnt offerings, as the specific ritual acts performed. These terms denote the formal worship procedures executed by the assembly to Yahweh.

The thread — The practice of large-scale sacrificial offerings appears in Numbers 15:7 regarding drink offerings, 2 Chronicles 7:4 where the king and people present sacrifices, and Ezra 6:17 which records distinct livestock counts for temple dedication. The numerical difference between these passages prevents conflating them as identical accounts.

Why it lands — The verse demands recognition of corporate worship as the necessary response to divine blessing and leadership transition. It requires the reader to observe how communal sacrifice functions as the structural bridge between covenant renewal and royal succession.

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The Hebrew words

King James Version

And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings unto the Lord, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:

Cross-references

Numbers 15:7 and a third of a hin of wine as a drink offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
2 Chronicles 7:4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.
Ezra 6:17 For the dedication of the house of God they offered a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and a sin offering for all Israel of twelve male goats, one for each tribe of Israel.
Leviticus 23:13 along with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil—a food offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.
Numbers 15:5 With the burnt offering or sacrifice of each lamb, you are to prepare a quarter hin of wine as a drink offering.
Numbers 15:10 Also present half a hin of wine as a drink offering. It is a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
1 Kings 8:62 Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD.