1 Kings 8:62 (DBY)

Passage

And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifices before Jehovah.

Nearby Context

1 Kings 8:60 that all peoples of the earth may know that Jehovah is God, that there is none else;

1 Kings 8:61 and that your heart may be perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in his statutes and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

1 Kings 8:62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifices before Jehovah.

1 Kings 8:63 And Solomon sacrificed a sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he sacrificed to Jehovah, twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of Jehovah.

1 Kings 8:64 The same day the king hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of Jehovah; for there he offered the burnt-offerings, and the oblations, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar that was before Jehovah was too small to receive the burnt-offerings, and the oblations, and the fat of the peace-offerings.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "king", "israel", "offered", "sacrifices", "before", and "jehovah". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "king" and "israel", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 61's "and that your heart may be perfect..." into verse 63's "And Solomon sacrificed a sacrifice of peace-offerings...", so "king" and "israel" belong inside that flow. In 1 Kings context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "king" and "israel" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.