* 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.

  2Ch 7:10  31:1 
 * blessed.  or, thanked.
  1,47 
 * joyful.
  De 12:7,12,18  16:11  2Ch 29:36  30:26,27  Ne 8:10  Ps 95:1,2 
  Ps 100:1,2  106:4,5  122:6,9  Isa 61:9,10  66:13,14  Jer 31:12-14 
  Zep 3:14  Zec 9:9,17  Ac 2:46  Ga 5:22  Php 4:4