  Solomon’s Sacrifices  1 Kings 8:63 "And Solomon offered a
sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the Lord,
two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand
sheep." (KJV).  1 Kings 8:5 "And King Solomon and all the
congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with
him before the Ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not
be told nor numbered for multitude." (KJV) Note: The Good News
Bible begins this verse with "King Solomon and all the people of
Israel…"  I wonder if the scribe who wrote this had any idea how
much ground would be covered by 142,000 oxen and sheep. They
certainly couldn’t ever have been contained in the temple
courtyard, nor could this number have been sacrificed in the one
day. By today’s standards they would need hundreds of trucks
just to take away the bones. The fat running off would fill a
few swimming pools.  One Million Ethiopians    Malcolm: These
verses sound quite impossible. If Judah was really the Judaea of
modern Israel, then the s