2 Chronicles 7:1-11
When Solomon had ended his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed
the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled
the temple. The priests could not enter the house of the LORD, because
the glory of the LORD filled the LORD's house. When all the people of
Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the LORD on the temple,
they bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and
worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying,
"For he is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever."
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD. King
Solomon offered as a sacrifice twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred
twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house
of God. The priests stood at their posts; the Levites also, with the
instruments for music to the LORD that King David had made for giving
thanks to the LORD — for his steadfast love endures forever — whenever
David offered praises by their ministry. Opposite them the priests sounded
trumpets; and all Israel stood.
Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was in front of the house
of the LORD; for there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the
offerings of well-being because the bronze altar Solomon had made could
not hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat parts.
At that time Solomon held the festival for seven days, and all Israel with
him, a very great congregation, from Lebo-hamath to the Wadi of Egypt. On
the eighth day they held a solemn assembly; for they had observed the
dedication of the altar seven days and the festival seven days. On the
twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their
homes, joyful and in good spirits because of the goodness that the LORD
had shown to David and to Solomon and to his people Israel.
Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king's house; all that
Solomon had planned to do in the house of the LORD and in his own house he
successfully accomplished.
