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New Testament
1 Kings 8:54-66
The Dedication of the Temple
54When Solomon finished offering all these prayers and pleas for mercy to the Lord, he got up from the altar of the Lord, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven. 55Then he stood and blessed the whole congregation of Israel with a loud voice:
56Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to his people Israel, just as he said he would. Not one word has failed[] from all his good words which he spoke through Moses his servant. 57May the Lord our God be with us, just as he was with our fathers. May he never leave us or abandon us. 58May he turn our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to listen to his commands, regulations, and ordinances, which he commanded to our fathers. 59May these words which I have prayed before the Lord be near the Lord our God day and night so that he provides justice for his servant and for his people Israel forever, 60so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God. There is no other. 61May your hearts be fully committed to the Lord our God, in order to walk in his regulations and to keep his commands, just as is the case today.
62Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the Lord. 63Solomon sacrificed fellowship offerings to the Lord: twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the House of the Lord.
64On that day the king consecrated the center of the courtyard which was in front of the House of the Lord, so that he could offer whole burnt offerings and grain offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings there, because the bronze altar which was before the Lord was too small to hold the whole burnt offerings and grain offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings.
65At that time Solomon kept the festival, and all Israel kept the festival with him. They were a great congregation that had come from throughout the land, from Lebo Hamath to the Stream of Egypt before the Lord our God ˻in the house which he built, eating and drinking and rejoicing before the Lord our God.˼[] The festival lasted seven days, and then seven days more, fourteen days in all. 66On the eighth day he sent them home, and they blessed the king. Then they went home, and their hearts were glad because of all the good which the Lord had done for his servant David and for his people Israel.