1Kings:8:22-53

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* And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel Yisra #el #, and spread forth his hands toward heaven : * And he said , LORD God of Israel Yisra #el #, there is no God like thee , in heaven above ma #al #, or on earth beneath , who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart : * Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him : thou spakest also with thy mouth , and hast fulfilled it with thine hand , as it is this day . * Therefore now , LORD God of Israel Yisra #el #, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him , saying , There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel Yisra #el #; so that thy children take heed to their way , that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me . * And now , O God of Israel Yisra #el #, let thy word , I pray thee , be verified , which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father . * But will God indeed dwell on the earth ? behold , the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less this house that I have builded ? * Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant , and to his supplication , O LORD my God , to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer , which thy servant prayeth before thee to day : * That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day , even toward the place of which thou hast said , My name shall be there : that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place . * And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant , and of thy people Israel Yisra #el #, when they shall pray toward this place : and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place : and when thou hearest , forgive . * If any man trespass against his neighbour , and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear , and the oath come before thine altar in this house : * Then hear thou in heaven , and do , and judge thy servants , condemning the wicked , to bring his way upon his head ro #sh #; and justifying the righteous , to give him according to his righteousness . * When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy , because they have sinned against thee , and shall turn again to thee , and confess thy name , and pray , and make supplication unto thee in this house : * Then hear thou in heaven , and forgive the sin of thy people Israel Yisra #el #, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers . * When heaven is shut up , and there is no rain , because they have sinned against thee ; if they pray toward this place , and confess thy name , and turn from their sin chatta #ah #, when thou afflictest them : * Then hear thou in heaven , and forgive the sin of thy servants , and of thy people Israel Yisra #el #, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk , and give rain upon thy land , which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance . * If there be in the land famine ra #ab #, if there be pestilence , blasting , mildew , locust , or if there be caterpiller ; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities sha #ar #; whatsoever plague , whatsoever sickness there be ; * What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man , or by all thy people Israel Yisra #el #, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart , and spread forth his hands toward this house : * Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place , and forgive , and do , and give to every man according to his ways , whose heart thou knowest ; (for thou , even thou only , knowest the hearts of all the children of men ; ) * That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers . * Moreover concerning a stranger , that is not of thy people Israel Yisra #el #, but cometh out of a far country for thy names sake ; * (For they shall hear of thy great name , and of thy strong hand , and of thy stretched out arm ;) when he shall come and pray toward this house ; * Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place , and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for : that all people of the earth may know thy name , to fear thee , as do thy people Israel Yisra #el #; and that they may know that this house , which I have builded , is called by thy name . * If thy people go out to battle against their enemy , whithersoever thou shalt send them , and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen , and toward the house that I have built for thy name : * Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication , and maintain their cause . * If they sin against thee , (for there is no man that sinneth not ,) and thou be angry with them , and deliver them to the enemy , so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy , far or near ; * Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives , and repent , and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives , saying , We have sinned , and have done perversely , we have committed wickedness ; * And so return unto thee with all their heart , and with all their soul , in the land of their enemies , which led them away captive , and pray unto thee toward their land , which thou gavest unto their fathers , the city which thou hast chosen , and the house which I have built for thy name : * Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place , and maintain their cause , * And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee , and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee , and give them compassion before them who carried them captive , that they may have compassion on them : * For they be thy people , and thine inheritance , which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt , from the midst of the furnace of iron : * That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant , and unto the supplication of thy people Israel Yisra #el #, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee . * For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth , to be thine inheritance , as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant , when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt , O Lord GOD .

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