1 Kings 8:54-66

When Solomon finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up from kneeling before the altar of the LORD, with his hands spread out toward heaven,  and he stood and blessed the whole congregation of Israel  with a loud voice: “Blessed be the LORD! He has given rest  to his people Israel according to all he has said. Not one of all the good promises he made through his servant Moses has failed.  May the LORD our God be with us as he was with our ancestors. May he not abandon us or leave us  so that he causes us to be devoted  to him,  to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commands, statutes, and ordinances, which he commanded our ancestors. May my words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near the LORD our God day and night. May he uphold his servant’s cause and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires.  May all the peoples of the earth know that the LORD is God. There is no other!  Be wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD our God  to walk in his statutes and to keep his commands, as it is today.” The king and all Israel with him were offering sacrifices in the LORD’s presence. Solomon offered a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to the LORD: twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred twenty thousand sheep and goats.  In this manner the king and all the Israelites dedicated  the LORD’s temple.  On the same day, the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard that was in front of the LORD’s temple because that was where he offered the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the fat of the fellowship offerings,  since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to accommodate the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the fellowship offerings.  Solomon and all Israel with him — a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath  , to the Brook of Egypt   — observed the festival at that time  in the presence of the LORD our God, seven days, and seven more days — fourteen days.  , On the fifteenth day  he sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went to their homes  rejoicing and with happy hearts for all the goodness that the LORD had done for his servant David and for his people Israel.