1 Kings 8:66
On the fifteenth day Solomon sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good things that the Lord had done for His servant David and for His people Israel.
Note Hebrew On the eighth day, probably referring to the day following the seven-day feast; see 2 Chronicles 7:9–10.
On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.
Note blessed: or, thanked
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.
On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that Jehovah had showed unto David his servant, and to Israel his people.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the eighth day
- In the parallel passage of Chronicles this is termed "the three and twentieth day of the seventh month;" that is, the ninth day of the dedication; which Jarchi reconciles by supposing that Solomon gave them leave to return on the eighth day, and many of them did return; and that he dismissed the remainder on the ninth, or twenty-third of the seventh month: See Note on ver. 1.
- 2 Chronicles 7:10; 2 Chronicles 31:1
- blessed
- or, thanked.
- 1 Kings 8:1, 47
- joyful
- Deuteronomy 12:7, 12, 18; Deuteronomy 16:11; 2 Chronicles 29:36; 2 Chronicles 30:26, 27; Nehemiah 8:10; Psalm 95:1, 2; Psalm 100:1, 2; Psalm 106:4, 5; Psalm 122:6, 9; Isaiah 61:9, 10; Isaiah 66:13, 14; Jeremiah 31:12–14; Zephaniah 3:14; Zechariah 9:9, 17; Acts 2:46; Galatians 5:22; Philippians 4:4