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2 Chronicles 29:35
Furthermore, the burnt offerings were abundant, along with the fat of the peace offerings and the drink offerings for the burnt offerings. So the service of the house of the LORD was established.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Chronicler narrates the immediate aftermath of Hezekiah’s temple restoration, recording the completion of the sacrificial rites. The account marks the transition from ritual preparation to the formal establishment of temple worship.
The words — The phrase לָ/רֹב (la./Ro) literally means "to abundance," quantifying the volume of burnt offerings. The verb וַ/תִּכּ֖וֹן (va./ti.Kon) carries a passive causative sense, indicating the service was "arranged" or "established."
The thread — Pairing burnt offerings with drink offerings follows the ritual template in Numbers 15:5 and the consecration instructions of Exodus 29:13. The act of pouring drink offerings on altars also appears in Genesis 35:14 during patriarchal worship.
Why it lands — The text records that ritual abundance directly preceded the formal establishment of temple service. It requires the reader to observe that institutional worship depends on the completion of prescribed sacrificial duties.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of the Lord was set in order.
Cross-references
- Exodus 29:13 Take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar.
- 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.
- Genesis 35:14 So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
- Leviticus 3:15 both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove with the kidneys.
- 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.
- 1 Chronicles 16:37 So David left Asaph and his associates there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to minister there regularly according to the daily requirements,
- Ezra 6:18 They also appointed the priests by their divisions and the Levites by their groups to the service of God in Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.
- 1 Corinthians 14:40 But everything must be done in a proper and orderly manner.