54. It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to the Lord, he arose from before the Lord’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out towards heaven.
55. He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
56. “Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.
57. May the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us;
58. that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
59. Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day requires;
60. that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord himself is God. There is no one else.
61. “Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”
62. The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.
63. Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the Lord, twenty two thousand head of cattle, and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the Lord’s house.
64. The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before the Lord’s house; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.
65. So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.
66. On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness that the Lord had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.