1 Kings 5-9
How do you celebrate after seven years of hard work building a temple to the Lord? Solomon chose the big party approach... a peace offering of 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. How do we put numbers like that into context? If McDonald's were serving that meat as quarter pounders, they would need 50 million buns and the Greek gyro restaurant would need 24 million pitas. Perhaps the temple dedication was the original church pot-luck supper.
Of course, just like today's church dedications, the building is worth nothing unless it is occupied by the Lord of the Heavens. God appeared to Solomon after the temple dedication and reiterated the covenant he made with Solomon's father, David... follow my commands and worship no other gods, and I will be your God. Abandon me and I will abandon you. Sadly, the religious fervor of the day wouldn't last even to the end of Solomon's rule.
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