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Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication

6Then Solomon spoke: "The LORD said He would dwell in the dark cloud.H559H8010H3068H559H7931H6205 2I have surely built You an exalted house, And a place for You to dwell in forever."H1129H1004H2073H4349H3427H5769

Solomon’s Speech upon Completion of the Work

3Then the king turned around and blessed the whole assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel was standing.H4428H5437H6440H1288H6951H3478H6951H3478H5975 4And he said: "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who has fulfilled with His hands what He spoke with His mouth to my father David, saying,H559H1288H3068H430H3478H3027H4390H1696H6310H1H1732H559 5'Since the day that I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have chosen no city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house, that My name might be there, nor did I choose any man to be a ruler over My people Israel.H3117H3318H5971H776H4714H977H5892H7626H3478H1129H1004H8034H977H376H5057H5971H3478 6'Yet I have chosen Jerusalem, that My name may be there; and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.'H977H3389H8034H977H1732H5971H3478 7"Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a temple for the name of the LORD God of Israel.H3824H1732H1H1129H1004H8034H3068H430H3478 8"But the LORD said to my father David, 'Whereas it was in your heart to build a temple for My name, you did well in that it was in your heart.H3068H559H1732H1H3824H1129H1004H8034H2895H3824 9'Nevertheless you shall not build the temple, but your son who will come from your body, he shall build the temple for My name.'H7535H1129H1004H1121H3318H2504H1129H1004H8034 10"So the LORD has fulfilled His word which He spoke, and I have filled the position of my father David, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised; and I have built the temple for the name of the LORD God of Israel.H3068H6965H1697H1696H6965H1732H1H3427H3678H3478H3068H1696H1129H1004H8034H3068H430H3478 11"And there I have put the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD which He made with the children of Israel."H8033H7760H727H1285H3068H3772H1121H3478

Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication

12Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his handsH5975H6440H4196H3068H6951H3478H6566H3709 13(for Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and he stood on it, knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven);H8010H6213H5178H3595H2568H520H753H2568H520H7341H7969H520H6967H5414H8432H5835H5975H1288H1290H6951H3478H6566H3709H8064 14and he said: "LORD God of Israel, there is no God in heaven or on earth like You, who keep Your covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.H559H3068H430H3478H430H8064H776H8104H1285H2617H5650H1980H6440H3820 15"You have kept what You promised Your servant David my father; You have both spoken with Your mouth and fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day.H8104H5650H1732H1H1696H1696H6310H4390H3027H3117 16"Therefore, LORD God of Israel, now keep what You promised Your servant David my father, saying, 'You shall not fail to have a man sit before Me on the throne of Israel, only if your sons take heed to their way, that they walk in My law as you have walked before Me.'H3068H430H3478H8104H5650H1732H1H1696H559H3772H376H6440H3427H3678H3478H7535H1121H8104H1870H3212H8451H1980H6440 17"And now, O LORD God of Israel, let Your word come true, which You have spoken to Your servant David.H3068H430H3478H1697H539H1696H5650H1732 18"But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!H430H552H3427H120H776H8064H8064H8064H3557H1004H1129 19"Yet regard the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O LORD my God, and listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You:H6437H8605H5650H8467H3068H430H8085H7440H8605H5650H6419H6440 20"that Your eyes may be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your name, that You may hear the prayer which Your servant prays toward this place.H5869H6605H1004H3119H3915H4725H559H7760H8034H8085H8605H5650H6419H4725 21"And may You hear the supplications of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and when You hear, forgive.H8085H8469H5650H5971H3478H6419H4725H8085H3427H4725H8064H8085H5545 22"If anyone sins against his neighbor, and is forced to take an oath, and comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this temple,H376H2398H7453H423H5375H422H423H935H6440H4196H1004 23"then hear from heaven, and act, and judge Your servants, bringing retribution on the wicked by bringing his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness.H8085H8064H6213H8199H5650H7725H7563H5414H1870H7218H6663H6662H5414H6666 24"Or if Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and return and confess Your name, and pray and make supplication before You in this temple,H5971H3478H5062H6440H341H2398H7725H3034H8034H6419H2603H6440H1004 25"then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave to them and their fathers.H8085H8064H5545H2403H5971H3478H7725H127H5414H1 26"When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them,H8064H6113H4306H2398H6419H4725H3034H8034H7725H2403H6031 27"then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance.H8085H8064H5545H2403H5650H5971H3478H3384H2896H1870H3212H5414H4306H776H5414H5971H5159 28"When there is famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is;H7458H776H1698H7711H3420H697H2625H341H6887H8179H776H5061H4245 29"whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows his own burden and his own grief, and spreads out his hands to this temple:H8605H8467H120H5971H3478H376H3045H5061H4341H6566H3709H1004 30"then hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone know the hearts of the sons of men),H8085H8064H3427H4349H5545H5414H376H1870H3824H3045H3045H3824H1121H120 31"that they may fear You, to walk in Your ways as long as they live in the land which You gave to our fathers.H3372H3212H1870H3117H2416H6440H127H5414H1 32"Moreover, concerning a foreigner, who is not of Your people Israel, but who comes from a far country for the sake of Your great name and Your mighty hand and Your outstretched arm, when they come and pray in this temple;H5237H5971H3478H935H7350H776H1419H8034H2389H3027H5186H2220H935H6419H1004 33"then hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, that all peoples of the earth may know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that this temple which I have built is called by Your name.H8085H8064H3427H4349H6213H5237H7121H5971H776H3045H8034H3372H5971H3478H3045H1004H1129H7121H8034 34"When Your people go out to battle against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to You toward this city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name,H5971H3318H4421H341H1870H7971H6419H1870H5892H977H1004H1129H8034 35"then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.H8085H8064H8605H8467H6213H4941 36"When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin), and You become angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, and they take them captive to a land far or near;H2398H120H2398H599H5414H6440H341H7617H7617H776H7350H7138 37"yet when they come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to You in the land of their captivity, saying, 'We have sinned, we have done wrong, and have committed wickedness';H7725H3824H776H7617H7725H2603H776H7628H559H2398H5753H7561 38"and when they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been carried captive, and pray toward their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and toward the temple which I have built for Your name:H7725H3820H5315H776H7628H7617H6419H1870H776H5414H1H5892H977H1004H1129H8034 39"then hear from heaven Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive Your people who have sinned against You.H8085H8064H3427H4349H8605H8467H6213H4941H5545H5971H2398 40"Now, my God, I pray, let Your eyes be open and let Your ears be attentive to the prayer made in this place.H430H5869H6605H241H7183H8605H4725 41"Now therefore, Arise, O LORD God, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength. Let Your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, And let Your saints rejoice in goodness.H6965H3068H430H5118H727H5797H3548H3068H430H3847H8668H2623H8055H2896 42"O LORD God, do not turn away the face of Your Anointed; Remember the mercies of Your servant David."H3068H430H7725H6440H4899H2142H2617H1732H5650


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