1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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I Kings 8:64 In that day the king sanctified the middle of the court, that was before the house of the Lord; for there he offered the holocaust, and sacrifice, and the fat of the peace-offerings: because the brazen altar that was before the Lord, was too little to receive the holocaust, and sacrifice, and the fat of the peace-offerings.

Court of the priests. An altar was there erected, in haste. Fire from heaven came to consume the victims, 2 Paralipomenon 7:1. (Calmet)