God ... struck him with an incurable and an invisible plague. For as soon as he had ended these words, a dreadful pain in his bowels came upon him, and bitter torments of the inner parts. And indeed very justly, seeing he had tormented the bowels of others. 2 Machabees 9:5

Trivia: Who created the first and only library mentioned in the Bible?

When did Solomon sacrifice 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep?


When he dedicated the temple

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. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. 1 Kings 8:63

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