⁸ At that time Solomon, together with all Israel, celebrated the festival for seven days. It was a very large assembly that came from Lebo-hamath to the border^[a] of Egypt. ⁹ On the eighth day there was a gathering. They had dedicated the altar for seven days and celebrated the festival for another seven days. ¹⁰ On the twenty-third day of the seventh month,^[b] Solomon dismissed the people to their tents, happy and content because of the goodness the Lord had shown to David, to Solomon, and to his people Israel.