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1Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he would reside in thick darkness.[#1 Kings 8.12–50]
2I have built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell forever.”
3Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.
4And he said, “Blessed be the Lord , the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to my father David, saying,
5‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any of the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, so that my name might be there, and I chose no one as ruler over my people Israel,
6but I have chosen Jerusalem in order that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’[#1 Chr 28.4; 2 Chr 12.13]
7My father David had it in mind to build a house for the name of the Lord , the God of Israel.[#1 Chr 28.2]
8But the Lord said to my father David, ‘You did well to consider building a house for my name;
9nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’
10Now the Lord has fulfilled his promise that he made, for I have succeeded my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord , the God of Israel.
11There I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with the people of Israel.”[#2 Chr 5.10]
12Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.[#1 Kings 8.22; #6.12 Heb he]
13Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high and had set it in the court, and he stood on it. Then he knelt on his knees in the presence of the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.[#1 Kings 8.54]
14He said, “O Lord , God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and steadfast love with your servants who walk before you with all their heart—[#Ex 15.11; Deut 7.9]
15you who have kept for your servant, my father David, what you promised to him. Indeed, you promised with your mouth and this day have fulfilled with your hand.[#1 Chr 22.9, 10]
16Therefore, O Lord , God of Israel, keep for your servant my father David that which you promised him, saying, ‘There shall never fail you a successor before me to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children keep to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’[#2 Sam 7.12, 16; 1 Kings 2.4; 2 Chr 7.18]
17Therefore, O Lord , God of Israel, let your word be confirmed that you promised to your servant David.
18“But will God indeed dwell with mortals on earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built![#2 Chr 2.6]
19Regard your servant’s prayer and his plea, O Lord my God, heeding the cry and the prayer that your servant prays to you.
20May your eyes be open day and night toward this house, the place where you promised to set your name, and may you heed the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.
21And hear the plea of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place; may you hear from heaven your dwelling place; hear and forgive.[#Mic 7.18]
22“If someone sins against a neighbor and is required to take an oath and comes and swears before your altar in this house,[#Mt 5.33]
23may you hear from heaven, and act, and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing their conduct on their own heads and vindicating the righteous by rewarding them according to their righteousness.
24“When your people Israel, having sinned against you, are defeated before an enemy but turn again to you, confess your name, pray and plead with you in this house,[#2 Chr 7.14]
25then hear from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land that you gave to them and to their ancestors.
26“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you and then they pray toward this place, confess your name, and turn from their sin because you punish them,[#1 Kings 17.1]
27then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain on your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.
28“If there is famine in the land, if there is plague, blight, mildew, locust, or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in any of the settlements of the lands; whatever suffering, whatever sickness there is;[#2 Chr 20.9]
29whatever prayer, whatever plea there is from any individual or from all your people Israel, all knowing their own suffering and their own sorrows so that they stretch out their hands toward this house;
30then hear from heaven, your dwelling place, forgive, and render to all whose hearts you know, according to all their ways, for only you know the human heart.[#1 Sam 16.7; 1 Chr 28.9]
31Thus may they fear you and walk in your ways all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our ancestors.
32“Likewise when foreigners, who are not of your people Israel, come from a distant land because of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when they come and pray toward this house,[#Josh 12.20; Acts 8.27]
33then hear from heaven your dwelling place and do whatever the foreigners ask of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and so they may know that your name has been invoked on this house that I have built.[#2 Chr 7.14]
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 that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,
35then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea and maintain their cause.
36“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far off or near,[#Job 15.14–16; Jas 3.2; 1 Jn 1.8–10]
37then if they come to their senses in the land to which they have been taken captive and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned and have done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’[#2 Chr 7.14]
38if they repent with all their heart and soul in the land of their captivity, to which they were taken captive, and pray toward their land that you gave to their ancestors, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name,
39then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
40Now, O my God, let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to prayer from this place.[#2 Chr 7.15; Ps 17.1]
41Now rise up, O Lord God, and go to your resting place,[#1 Chr 28.2; Ps 132.8–10]
you and the ark of your might.
Let your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation,
and let your faithful rejoice in your goodness.
42O Lord God, do not reject your anointed one.
Remember your steadfast love for your servant David.”