So Solomon and all Israel with him—a very great assembly, from the entrance to Hamath[a] to the Brook of Egypt—observed the festival at that time for seven days. On the eighth day[b] they held a solemn assembly,(A) for the dedication of the altar lasted seven days and the festival seven days. 10 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people home,[c] rejoicing and with happy hearts for the goodness the Lord had done for David, for Solomon, and for his people Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:8 Or from Lebo-hamath
  2. 7:9 = the day after the festival, or the 15th day
  3. 7:10 Lit people to their tents

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