2 Chronicles 7:8, NLT

8For the next seven days Solomon and all Israel celebrated the Festival of Shelters.*7:8 Hebrew the festival (also in 7:9); see note on 5:3. A large congregation had gathered from as far away as Lebo-hamath in the north and the Brook of Egypt in the south.

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