1. As soon as Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and burnt up the offerings. The Lord's dazzling glory then filled the temple,
2. and the priests could not go in.
3. When the crowd of people saw the fire and the Lord's glory, they knelt down and worshipped the Lord. They prayed:“The Lord is good,and his love never ends.”
4-5. Solomon and the people dedicated the temple to the Lord by sacrificing twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep.
6. Everybody stood up during the ceremony. The priests were in their assigned places, blowing their trumpets. And the Levites faced them, playing the musical instruments that David had made for them to use when they praised the Lord for his never-ending love.
7. On that same day, Solomon dedicated the courtyard in front of the temple and got it ready to be used for worship. The bronze altar he had made was too small, so he used the courtyard to offer sacrifices to please the Lord and grain sacrifices, and also to send up in smoke the fat from the other offerings.