Bloodshed
30/10/08 20:32 Filed in: Scripture | Old Testament
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I am just amazed
at the bloodshed in 1 Kings 8. I have no idea how so many animals
could be sacrificed.
It sounds like all Israel sacrificed in addition to King Solomon. The if you read 8:5 there were many more.
If they could count "twenty-two thousand cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep and goats," how many animals had to have been sacrificed to be uncountable?
I'm not saying I think that it is wrong, obviously it is what God demanded. I just don't understand how that many animals could be killed and I assume burned as offerings. Where would all the blood go?
1Kings 8:62 Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD.1Kings 8:63 Solomon offered a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to the LORD: twenty-two thousand cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep and goats. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the temple of the LORD.
It sounds like all Israel sacrificed in addition to King Solomon. The if you read 8:5 there were many more.
1Kings 8:5 and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted.
If they could count "twenty-two thousand cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep and goats," how many animals had to have been sacrificed to be uncountable?
I'm not saying I think that it is wrong, obviously it is what God demanded. I just don't understand how that many animals could be killed and I assume burned as offerings. Where would all the blood go?
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