4 here I am building+ a house to the name+ of Jehovah my God to sanctify+ it to him, to burn perfumed incense+ before him, with the constant layer bread+ and burnt offerings in the morning and in the evening,+ on the sabbaths+ and on the new moons+ and at the festival seasons+ of Jehovah our God. To time indefinite+ this will be upon Israel.

5 And King Solʹo·mon went on offering the sacrifice of twenty-two thousand cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep.+ Thus the king and all the people inaugurated+ the house of the [true] God.

16 And the sons of Israel, the priests and the Levites+ and the rest of the former exiles*+ held the inauguration+ of this house of God with joy.

27 And at the inauguration+ of the wall of Jerusalem they looked for the Levites, to bring them out of all their places to Jerusalem to carry on an inauguration and a rejoicing even with thanksgivings+ and with song,+ cymbals [and] stringed instruments+ and with harps.+