2 Chronicles 8:13
Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
The verse stands in the first, chronologically ordered part of the book, which recounts Solomon's reign over the undivided kingdom and covers the building and furnishings of the temple, its dedication prayer and sacrifices, and God's answer to Solomon's prayer. After the temple dedication Solomon continued to join king and priest in his own person, after the example of David his father. At the three great yearly feasts he himself burned the sacrifices and offered incense on the Sabbaths and on the other feast days, doing work belonging to the priests, while also appointing the priests to their specific work.
The Hebrew word for a group of seven corresponds to the Greek word for a group of seven and to the English word week. The verse's schedule of Sabbaths and yearly feasts belongs to the biblical usage that links these terms and supports the sense of week in the phrase first day of the week. The verse lists three distinct classes of observance: the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the solemn feasts. The solemn feasts kept three times in the year are only the feast of unleavened bread, and the feast of weeks, and the feast of tabernacles.
The verse records offerings made after a certain rate every day according to the commandment of Moses for the Sabbaths, with the new moons and the three yearly solemn feasts. The three annual festivals were part of the commanded worship at the sanctuary. The sabbaths in the verse are ceremonial sabbaths, not the weekly Sabbath of the Lord or seventh-day Sabbath. They belong with the new moons and the solemn feasts kept three times in the year, showing festival days distinct from the Sabbath of the Lord.
Because the Sabbaths, new moons, and solemn feasts are three distinct classes limited to those three named feasts, the weekly Sabbath is proved not to be one of the annual feasts of the Lord. These Sabbath offerings and sanctuary rites belong to the ceremonial law added because of the fall and form no part of the original Sabbath institution made before the fall. The verse joins the Sabbath to the Jewish festivals only in recording provision for these offerings. When the ceremonial law was nailed to the cross the Jewish festivals ceased to exist and the rites it had appended to the Sabbath were taken away, leaving the original Sabbath exactly as it came from its author. Each of the three festivals was fulfilled in Christ's antitypical priestly service.