Dedication

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DEDICATION.—See House, § 3.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


a religious ceremony, whereby any person or thing was set apart to the service of God, and the purposes of religion. Dedications of persons, temples, and houses, were frequent among the Jews. See CONSECRATION.
Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Richard Watson
PRINTER 1849.


According to common usage, ‘dedication’ is another word for ‘consecration’. The two words refer to the act of setting apart people or things from the ordinary affairs of life and presenting them to God for his service (Exo_13:2; Exo_13:12; Exo_29:1; Exo_29:22; Num_7:10-11; 1Sa_1:11; 1Sa_1:24-28; 1Ki_8:63; 1Ch_26:26; Ezr_6:16-17; for details see CONSECRATION).
The Jewish festival known as the Feast of Dedication celebrated the rededication of the Jewish temple after the defilement by Antiochus Epiphanes in the second century BC (Joh_10:22; for details see FEASTS).
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary by Don Fleming
PRINTER 1990.


Dedication, a religious ceremony, whereby anything is dedicated or consecrated to the service of God; and it appears to have originated in the desire to commence, with peculiar solemnity, the practical use and application of whatever had been set apart to the divine service. Thus Moses dedicated the Tabernacle in the Wilderness (Exodus 40; Numbers 7); Solomon his temple (1 Kings 8); the returned exiles theirs (Ezr_6:16-17); Herod his. The Maccabees, having cleansed the temple from its pollutions under Antiochus Epiphanes, again dedicated the altar (1Ma_4:52-59), and an annual festival was established in commemoration of the event. This feast was celebrated not only at Jerusalem, but everywhere throughout the country; in which respect it differed from the feasts of the Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, which could only be observed at Jerusalem.
In Joh_10:22-23, we are told that Jesus was at Jerusalem, walking in Solomon's porch at the time of 'the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.' This is usually supposed to have been the feast commemorating the dedication by Judas Maccab?us, which was celebrated in the month Chisleu, about the winter solstice (answering to the 15th of December). There seems no reason to disturb this conclusion; for the dedication of Solomon's temple was in the seventh month, or autumn; that of Zerubbabel's temple in the month Adar, in the spring; and, although that of Herod's temple was in the winter, we know not that it was celebrated by an annual feast, while the Maccab?an dedication was a festival much observed in the time of Christ.
Not only were sacred places thus dedicated; but some kind of dedicatory solemnity was observed with respect to cities, walls, gates, and even private houses (Deu_20:5; Psalms 30 title; Neh_12:27). We may trace the continuance of these usages in the custom of consecrating or dedicating churches and chapels; and in the ceremonies connected with the 'opening' of roads, markets, bridges, etc., and with the launching of ships.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.





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