⁶²Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrificesⁱ before the Lord. ⁶³Solomon offered a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to the Lord: twenty-two thousand cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep and goats. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated^j the temple of the Lord.

⁶⁴On that same day the king consecrated the middle part of the courtyard in front of the temple of the Lord, and there he offered burnt offerings, grain offerings and the fat^k of the fellowship offerings, because the bronze altar^l that stood before the Lord was too small to hold the burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings.^m

⁶⁵So Solomon observed the festivalⁿ at that time, and all Israel with him—a vast assembly, people from Lebo Hamath^o to the Wadi of Egypt.^p They celebrated it before the Lord our God for seven days and seven days more, fourteen days in all. ⁶⁶On the following day he sent the people away. They blessed the king and then went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good^q things the Lord had done for his servant David and his people Israel.

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Cross references

iSee 2 Sa 6:13; 1 Ch 29:21; Eze 45:17
j Ezr 6:16
kSee Ex 29:13
lSee Ex 27:1; 2 Ki 16:14; 2 Ch 4:1; 8:12; 15:8; Eze 43:13–17
mSee 2 Sa 6:17
nSee ver 2
oSee Nu 13:21
pSee Ge 15:18
qSee Ex 18:9