Since the time of Solomon - Compare 2 Chronicles 7:8–10.

For since the time of Solomon ... there was not the like. —The chronicler himself thus compares this great festival with …

So there was great joy in Jerusalem
Not merely carnal, expressed in eating and drinking, and making merry with one a…

Many prayers were offered to God with the peace-offerings. In these, Israel looked to God as the God of their fathers, a God in covenant with them.…