¹⁰ On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the prosperity^[a] that the Lord had granted to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.

²⁵ And they captured ^(A)fortified cities and ^(B)a rich land, and took possession of ^(C)houses full of all good things, cisterns already hewn, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled ^(D)and became fat and delighted themselves in ^(E)your great goodness.