1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
4 And they brought up the ark of Jehovah, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
5 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah to his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the Cherubims.
7 For the Cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the Cherubims covered the ark and the staves above.
8 And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are to this day.
9 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when Jehovah made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
10 When the priests had come out of the holy place, the cloud filled the house of Jehovah,
11 So that the priests could not stand to serve because of the cloud: for the glory of Jehovah had filled the house of Jehovah.
12 Then spoke Solomon, Jehovah said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
13 I have surely built you a house to dwell in, a settled place for you to abide in for the age.
14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;)
15 And he said, Blessed be Jehovah God of Israel, which spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hand Fulfilled it, saying,
16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
17 And it was in the mind of David my father to build a house for the name of Jehovah God of Israel.
18 And Jehovah said to David my father, Because it was in your mind to build a house to my name, you did well that it was in your mind.
19 Nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son that shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house to my name.
20 And Jehovah has performed his word that he spoke, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah promised, and have built a house for the name of Jehovah God of Israel.
21 And I have set there a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of Jehovah, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
22 And Solomon stood before the altar of Jehovah in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
23 And he said, Jehovah God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on Earth beneath, who keeps covenant and mercy with your servants that walk before you with all their mind:
24 Who have kept with your servant David my father what you promised him: you spoke also with your mouth, and have Fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.
25 Therefore now, Jehovah God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father what you promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that your children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as you have walked before me.
26 And now, Oh God of Israel, let your word, I pray you, be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.
27 But will God indeed dwell on the Earth? The heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built?
28 Yet have you respect to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, oh, Jehovah, my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer, which your servant prays before you today:
29 That your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, My name shall be there: that you may listen to the prayer which your servant shall make toward this place.
30 And listen you to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear you in heaven your dwelling place: and when you hear, forgive.
31 If any man trespass against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before your altar in this house:
32 Then hear you in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
33 When your people, Israel, be struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray, and make supplication to you in this house:
34 Then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.
35 When heaven 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 humiliated them:
36 Then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, that you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and give rain upon your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
37 If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there are caterpillars; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;
38 Whatever prayer and supplication is made by anyone, or by all your people Israel, each one should know the plague of his own mind, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
39 Then hear in heaven, Your dwelling place, and forgive and do and give to every man according to his ways, whose mind You know; (for You, and You only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)
40 That they may reverence You all the days that they live in the land which You gave to our fathers.
41 Concerning a stranger, that is not of Your people Israel, but comes out of a far country for Your name's sake;
42 (For they shall hear of Your great name, and of Your strong hand, and of Your stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;
43 Hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calls to You for: that all people of the Earth may know Your Name, to reverence You, as do Your people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have built, is called by Your Name.
44 If Your people go out to battle against their enemy, wherever You shall send them, and shall pray to Jehovah toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house that I have built for your name:
45 Then hear you in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
46 If they sin against you, (for there is no man that sins not,) and you be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives to the land of the enemy, far or near;
47 Yet if they shall return themselves in the land where they were carried captives, and reverse your mind, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done willfully, we have committed wickedness;
48 And so return to You with all their mind, with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray to You toward their land, which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built forYour name:
49 Then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, Your dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
50 And forgive Your people who have sinned against You, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against You, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
51 For they are Your people and Your inheritance, which You brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
52 That Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your servant, and to the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them in all that they call for to you.
53 For You did separate them from among all the people of the Earth, to be Your inheritance, as You spoke by the hand of Moses Your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Oh Lord GOD.
54 And it was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to Jehovah, he arose from before the altar of Jehovah, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
56 Blessed be Jehovah, that has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
57 Jehovah our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
58 That He may incline our minds to Him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
59 And let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Jehovah, be near to Jehovah our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
60 That all the people of the Earth may know that Jehovah is God, and that there is none else.
61 Let your mind therefore be completely trustworthy with Jehovah our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Jehovah.
63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to Jehovah, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of Jehovah.
64 The same day did the king sanctify the middle of the court that was before the house of Jehovah: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the bronze altar that was before Jehovah was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath to the river of Egypt, before Jehovah our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
66 On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of mind for all the goodness that Jehovah had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.