The Dedication of the Temple

(A)Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the Lord. King Solomon offered as a sacrifice 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. The priests stood at their posts; (B)the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the Lord that King David had made for giving thanks to the Lord(C)for his steadfast love endures forever—whenever David offered praises by their ministry;[a] (D)opposite them the priests sounded trumpets, and all Israel stood.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 7:6 Hebrew by their hand

Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the Lord. And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep and goats. So the king and all the people dedicated the temple of God. The priests took their positions, as did the Levites(A) with the Lord’s musical instruments,(B) which King David had made for praising the Lord and which were used when he gave thanks, saying, “His love endures forever.” Opposite the Levites, the priests blew their trumpets, and all the Israelites were standing.

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