⁹ On the day after the festival ended,^[a] they convened a solemn assembly, because they had been dedicating the altar for seven days and observing the festival for seven days. ¹⁰ On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, King Solomon^[b] sent the people back home,^[c] and they returned^[d] rejoicing and in good spirits because of the goodness that the Lord had shown to David, to Solomon, and to his people Israel. ¹¹ And so Solomon completed the Lord’s Temple, bringing to completion everything that he had planned on doing for the Lord’s Temple and for his own palace.