Yet even the interpolation does not
remove the difficulties. Where is the Mosaic altar of
burnt-offering? It was quite as important and holy as the
tabernacle itself; even in Chronicles it is invariably mentioned
expressly in connection with it, and did not deserve to be
permitted to go to ruin at Gibeon, which, from another point of
view, would also have been extremely dangerous to the unity of
the sacrificial worship. Further, if the sacred vessels were
transferred from the tabernacle to the temple, why then was it
that Solomon, according to 1Kings vii., cast a completely new
set? /1/
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1. The brazen altar cast by Solomon (1Kings viii.64;
2Kings xvi.14, 15) is not now found in the inventory of the temple
furniture in 1Kings vii.; but originally it cannot have been
absent, for it is the most important article. It has therefore
been struck out in order to avoid collision with the brazen altar
of Moses. The deletion is the negative counterpart to the
interpolation of the tabernacle in 1Kings viii.4.
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The old ones were costly enough, in part even costlier than the new, and,
moreover, had been consecrated by long use.
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