[1] Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick
darkness. [2] But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for
you to dwell in forever. [3] The king turned his face, and blessed all the
assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood. [4] He said,
Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my
father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying, [5] Since the day that
I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of
all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there;
neither chose I any man to be prince over my people Israel: [6] but I have
chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be
over my people Israel. [7] Now it was in the heart of David my father to
build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. [8] But Yahweh
said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for
my name, you did well that it was in your heart: [9] nevertheless you shall
not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your loins,
he shall build the house for my name. [10] Yahweh has performed his word
that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on
the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the
name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. [11] There have I set the ark, in which
is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with the children of Israel. [12]
He stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of
Israel, and spread forth his hands [13] (for Solomon had made a brazen
scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high,
and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled
down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his
hands toward heaven;) [14] and he said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is
no God like you, in heaven, or on earth; who keep covenant and
lovingkindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their
heart; [15] who have kept with your servant David my father that which you
did promise him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with
your hand, as it is this day. [16] Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of
Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised
him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the
throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in
my law as you have walked before me. [17] Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of
Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David.
[18] But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven
and the heaven of heavens can`t contain you; how much less this house which
I have built! [19] Yet have you respect to the prayer of your servant, and
to his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer
which your servant prays before you; [20] that your eyes may be open toward
this house day and night, even toward the place whereof you have said that
you would put your name there; to listen to the prayer which your servant
shall pray toward this place. [21] Listen you to the petitions of your
servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place:
yes, hear from your dwelling-place, even from heaven; and when you hear,
forgive. [22] If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him
to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this
house; [23] then hear from heaven, and do, and judge your servants,
requiting the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the
righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. [24] If your people
Israel be struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against
you, and shall turn again and confess your name, and pray and make
supplication before you in this house; [25] then hear from heaven, and
forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land
which you gave to them and to their fathers. [26] When the sky is shut up,
and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray
toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you
do afflict them: [27] then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your
servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in
which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to
your people for an inheritance. [28] If there be in the land famine, if
there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar;
if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague
or whatever sickness there be; [29] whatever prayer and supplication be
made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall know every man his
own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread forth his hands toward this
house: [30] then hear from heaven, your dwelling-place and forgive, and
render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for
you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men;) [31] that they
may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which
you gave to our fathers. [32] Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not
of your people Israel, when he shall come from a far country for your great
name`s sake, and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm; when they
shall come and pray toward this house: [33] then hear from heaven, even
from your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls
to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, and fear
you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house
which I have built is called by your name. [34] If your people go out to
battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they
pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I
have built for your name; [35] then hear from heaven their prayer and their
supplication, and maintain their cause. [36] If they sin against you (for
there is no man who doesn`t sin), and you be angry with them, and deliver
them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off
or near; [37] yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where they
are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the
land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done perversely,
and have dealt wickedly; [38] if they return to you with all their heart
and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have
carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their
fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I
have built for your name: [39] then hear from heaven, even from your
dwelling-place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause,
and forgive your people who have sinned against you. [40] Now, my God, let,
I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer
that is made in this place. [41] Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your
resting-place, you, and the ark of your strength: let your priests, Yahweh
God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.
[42] Yahweh God, don`t turn away the face of your anointed: remember [your]
lovingkindnesses to David your servant.

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