I Kings 8 Solomon blesses the people

 I Kings 8

Solomon blesses the people

54 So it came to pass, when Solomon had made an end of praying this prayer and supplication to the Lord, kneeling down with his hands stretched out to heaven, he arose from before the altar of the Lord,
55 And he stood up, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
56 Blessed be the LORD, who hath given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he said: not one word has fallen out of all his good words, which he spoke by Moses his servant.
57 The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers; do not forsake us, and do not leave us;
58 By inclining our heart to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
59 And let these words of mine, wherewith I pleaded before the LORD, be near before the LORD our God day and night, that he may execute the judgment of his servant, and the judgment of his people Israel, every man in his day. ,
60 That all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.
61 And let your heart be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
62 And the king and all Israel with him sacrificed sacrifices before the face of the LORD.
63 And Solomon offered as a peace offering that which he had sacrificed to the LORD, twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the children of Israel consecrated the house of the LORD.
64 On the same day the king sanctified the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD; for there he had prepared the burnt offerings and the fat offerings of the peace offerings: for the copper altar that was before the face of the LORD was too small to fit the burnt offerings and the offerings and the fat of the peace offerings on it.
65 At the same time Solomon celebrated the feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entrance of Hamath to the river of Egypt, before the face of the LORD our God; for seven days, and seven days more: fourteen days.
66 And on the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king: then they went to their tents, rejoicing and rejoicing in heart, because of all the good that the Lord had done to David his servant, and to Israel his people.