1 Raja-raja 8:63

8:63 Solomon offered as peace offerings ¹  to the Lord 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. Then the king and all the Israelites dedicated the Lord’s temple.

1 Raja-raja 8:2

8:2 All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival ²  in the month Ethanim ³  (the seventh month).

1 Raja-raja 7:5

7:5 All of the entrances ⁴  were rectangular in shape ⁵  and they were arranged in sets of three. ⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 7:9

7:9 All of these were built with the best ⁷  stones, chiseled to the right size ⁸  and cut with a saw on all sides, ⁹  from the foundation to the edge of the roof ¹⁰  and from the outside to the great courtyard.

Yohanes 10:22

Jesus at the Feast of Dedication

10:22 Then came the feast of the Dedication ¹¹  in Jerusalem. ¹² 

[8:63]  ¹ tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

[8:2]  ² sn The festival. This was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.

[8:2]  ³ sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning.

[7:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “all of the doors and doorposts.”

[7:5]  ⁵ sn Rectangular in shape. That is, rather than arched.

[7:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “and all the entrances and the doorposts [had] four frames, and in front of opening to opening three times” (the precise meaning of the description is uncertain).

[7:9]  ⁷ tn Or “valuable” (see 5:17).

[7:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “according to the measurement of chiseled [stone].”

[7:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “inside and out.”

[7:9]  ¹⁰ tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew word טְפָחוֹת (tÿfakhot) is uncertain, but it is clear that the referent stands in opposition to the foundation.

[10:22]  ¹¹ tn That is, Hanukkah or the ‘Festival of Lights.’ The Greek name for the feast, τὰ ἐγκαίνια (ta enkainia), literally means “renewal” and was used to translate Hanukkah which means “dedication.” The Greek noun, with its related verbs, was the standard term used in the LXX for the consecration of the altar of the Tabernacle (Num 7:10-11), the altar of the temple of Solomon (1 Kgs 8:63; 2 Chr 7:5), and the altar of the second temple (Ezra 6:16). The word is thus connected with the consecration of all the houses of God in the history of the nation of Israel.

[10:22]  sn The feast of the Dedication (also known as Hanukkah) was a feast celebrating annually the Maccabean victories of 165-164 b.c. – when Judas Maccabeus drove out the Syrians, rebuilt the altar, and rededicated the temple on 25 Kislev (1 Macc 4:41-61). From a historical standpoint, it was the last great deliverance the Jewish people had experienced, and it came at a time when least expected. Josephus ends his account of the institution of the festival with the following statement: “And from that time to the present we observe this festival, which we call the festival of Lights, giving this name to it, I think, from the fact that the right to worship appeared to us at a time when we hardly dared hope for it” (Ant. 12.7.6 [12.325]).

[10:22]  ¹² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.