1 Kings 9:25

Three times in a year. The Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles (2 Chron. 8:13), the three important annual feasts that all Hebrew males had to attend in Jerusalem (Ex. 23:14-17; Deut. 16:16).

Did Solomon offer. Some have assumed that this verse provides evidence that Solomon officiated as priest three times in each year in offering sacrifices and burning incense. But there is nothing in the Bible to justify this view. The man who brought a sacrifice is said to offer it (Lev. 2:1; 3:1, 3, 7, 9, 14). In connection with sacrifices after the dedication of the Temple, it is added that “the priests waited on their offices” (2 Chron. 7:5, 6). At such ceremonies Solomon probably went no further than any of the common people in the offering of incense or sacrifice, permitting the priests to perform such functions as were exclusively theirs (Lev. 1:7, 8, 11; 2:2, 9, 16; 3:11, 16; 10:1, 2; Num. 16:1-7, 17-40; etc.).