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On the last day they had a closing celebration, </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/2_chronicles/7-9.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/2_chronicles/7-9.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/2_chronicles/7-9.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_chronicles/1.htm">2 Chronicles</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_chronicles/7.htm">Chapter 7</a> > Verse 9</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_chronicles/7-8.htm" title="2 Chronicles 7:8">◄</a> 2 Chronicles 7:9 <a href="../2_chronicles/7-10.htm" title="2 Chronicles 7:10">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/2_chronicles/7.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/2_chronicles/7.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />They had spent seven days for the dedication of the altar and then seven more days for the festival. On the last day they had a closing celebration, <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_chronicles/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/2_chronicles/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Then on the next day, everyone came together for worship. They had celebrated a total of 14 days, 7 days for the dedication of the altar and 7 more days for the festival. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_chronicles/7.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for they had celebrated the dedication of the altar for seven days and the feast for seven days.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/2_chronicles/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And he made on the eighth day a solemn assembly, because he had kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and had celebrated the solemnity seven days.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And he made on the eighth day a solemn assembly, because he had kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and had celebrated the solemnity seven days.</p><p class="hdg">solemn assembly [heb] restraint</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/23-36.htm">Leviticus 23:36</a> The eighth day also shall be most solemn and most holy: and you shall offer holocausts to the Lord. For it is the day of assembly and congregation. You shall do no servile work therein.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/16-8.htm">Deuteronomy 16:8</a> Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day, because it is the assembly of the Lord thy God, thou shalt do no work.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../nehemiah/8-18.htm">Nehemiah 8:18</a> And he read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the first day till the last, and they kept the solemnity seven days, and in the eighth day a solemn assembly according to the manner.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joel/1-14.htm">Joel 1:14</a> Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly, gather together the ancients, all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God: and cry ye to the Lord:</p><p class="hdg">seven days</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/30-23.htm">2 Chronicles 30:23</a> And it pleased the whole multitude to keep other seven days: which they did with great joy.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/8-65.htm">1 Kings 8:65</a> And Solomon made at the same time a solemn feast, and all Israel with him, a great multitude, from the entrance of Emath to the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven days, that is, fourteen days.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/2_chronicles/7.htm">Sacrifices of Dedication</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">8</span>And Solomon kept the solemnity at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entrance of Emath to the torrent of Egypt. <span class="reftext">9</span><span class="highl">And he made on the eighth day a solemn assembly, because he had kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and had celebrated the solemnity seven days.</span><span class="reftext">10</span>So on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent away the people to their dwellings, joyful and glad for the good that the Lord had done to David, and to Solomon, and to all Israel his people.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/23-36.htm">Leviticus 23:36</a></span><br />The eighth day also shall be most solemn and most holy: and you shall offer holocausts to the Lord. For it is the day of assembly and congregation. You shall do no servile work therein.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../numbers/7-10.htm">Numbers 7:10</a></span><br />And the princes offered for the dedication of the altar on the day when it was anointed, their oblation before the altar.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/7-10.htm">2 Chronicles 7:10</a></span><br />So on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent away the people to their dwellings, joyful and glad for the good that the Lord had done to David, and to Solomon, and to all Israel his people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_chronicles/7-7.htm">Altar</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/7-8.htm">Assembly</a> <a 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