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Three times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace-offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense therewith, [on the altar] that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.
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The Three Great Feasts
Commentators unanimously identify the "three times a year" as the three major pilgrimage festivals mandated by the Law of Moses: the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Passover), the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost), and the Feast of Tabernacles. This established a rhythm of national worship.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Three times—That is, the three solemn feasts: the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.
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19th Century
Anglican
And three times in a year. —This verse seems, by its last words, to be a kind of note or postscript to the description of…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he …
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Here is a further account of Solomon's greatness. He began correctly, for he built God's house first and finished it before he began his own. Then …
