Solomon Dedicates the Temple^(A)

⁶² Then ^(B)the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the Lord.

¹⁷ So ^(A)they brought the ark of the Lord, and set it in ^(B)its place in the midst of the tabernacle that David had erected for it. Then David ^(C)offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. ¹⁸ And when David had finished offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, ^(D)he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts. ^19 (E)Then he distributed among all the people, among the whole multitude of Israel, both the women and the men, to everyone a loaf of bread, a piece of meat, and a cake of raisins. So all the people departed, everyone to his house.

¹⁶ Then the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites and the rest of the descendants of the captivity, celebrated ^(A)the dedication of this ^[a]house of God with joy. ¹⁷ And they ^(B)offered sacrifices at the dedication of this house of God, one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and as a sin offering for all Israel twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

^4 (A)Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the Lord. ⁵ King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand bulls and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. ^6 (B)And the priests attended to their services; the Levites also with instruments of the music of the Lord, which King David had made to praise the Lord, saying, “For His mercy endures forever,” whenever David offered praise by their ^[a]ministry. ^(C)The priests sounded trumpets opposite them, while all Israel stood.

⁷ Furthermore ^(D)Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was in front of the house of the Lord; for there he offered burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat.

^8 (E)At that time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly ^(F)from the entrance of Hamath to ^(G)the^[b] Brook of Egypt. ⁹ And on the eighth day they held a ^(H)sacred assembly, for they observed the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. ^10 (I)On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the good that the Lord had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel.