2 Chronicles 7:4–9

⁴The king and all the people were offering sacrifices in the Lord’s presence. ^v5King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. In this manner the king and all the people dedicated God’s temple. ⁶The priests and the Levites were standing at their stations. The Levites had the musical instruments of the Lord, which King David had made to praise the Lord—“for His faithful love endures forever”—when he offered praise with them. ^wAcross from the Levites, the priests were blowing trumpets, and all the people were standing. ⁷Since the bronze altar that Solomon had made ^xcould not accommodate the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the fat of the fellowship offerings, Solomon first consecrated the middle of the courtyard ^ythat was in front of the Lord’s temple and then offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings there. ^z

⁸So Solomon and all Israel with him—a very great assembly, from the entrance to Hamath ^ato the Brook of Egypt—observed the festival at that time for seven days. ⁹On the eighth day ^bthey held a sacred assembly, ^cfor the dedication of the altar lasted seven days and the festival seven days.