4. Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before יְהוָ֥ה.

5. And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of Elohim.

6. And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of יְהוָ֥ה, which David the king had made to praise יְהוָ֥ה, because his mercy for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.

7. Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that before the house of יְהוָ֥ה: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.

8. Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.

9. And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

10. And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that יְהוָ֥ה had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.