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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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Albert Barnes
On 1 Kings 9:25
18th Century
Theologian
Three times—That is, the three solemn feasts: the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.
Did …
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Kings 9:25
19th Century
Bishop
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…
John Gill
On 1 Kings 9:25
17th Century
Pastor
And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings
and peace offerings upon the altar which he …
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Matthew Henry
On 1 Kings 9:15–28
17th Century
Minister
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 …