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Close of the public assembly. - 1Ch 29:20. At the conclusion of the prayer, David calls upon the whole assembly to praise God; which they do, bowing before God and the king, and worshipping. וְיִשְׁתַּחֲווּ יִקְּדוּ, connected as in Exo 4:31; Gen 43:28, etc.
1Ch 29:21
To seal their confession, thus made in word and deed, the assembled dignitaries prepared a great sacrificial feast to the Lord on the following day. They sacrificed to the Lord sacrifices, viz., 1000 bullocks, 1000 rams, and 1000 lambs as burnt-offering, with drink-offerings to correspond, and sacrifices, i.e., thank-offerings (שְׁלָמִים), in multitude for all Israel, i.e., so that all those present could take part in the sacrificial meal prepared from these sacrifices. While זְבָהִים in the first clause is the general designation of the bloody offerings as distinguished from the meat-offerings, in the last clause it is restricted by the contrast with עֹלֹות and the שְׁלָמִים, from which joyous sacrificial meals were prepared.
1Ch 29:22
On this day they made Solomon king a second time, anointing him king to the Lord, and Zadok to be priest, i.e., high priest. The שֵׁנִית refers back to 1Ch 23:1, and the first anointing of Solomon narrated in 1Ki 1:32. ליהיה, not: before Jahve, which לְ cannot signify, but: “to Jahve,” in accordance with His will expressed in His choice of Solomon (1Ch 28:4). The לְ before צָדֹוק is nota accus., as in לִשְׁלֹמֹה. From the last words we learn that Zadok received the high-priesthood with the consent of the estates of the kingdom.