1Kings:8:22-61

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* And Solomon stood up in front of the altar before all the congregation of Israel ; and he spread out his hands toward heaven : * and he said , Lord God of Israel , there is no God like thee in heaven above and on the earth beneath , keeping covenant and mercy with thy servant who walks before thee with all his heart ; * which thou hast kept toward thy servant David my father : for thou hast spoken by thy mouth and thou hast fulfilled it with thine hands , as at this day . * And now , O Lord God of Israel , keep for thy servant David my father , the promises which thou hast spoken to him , saying , There shall not be taken from thee a man sitting before me on the throne of Israel , provided only thy children shall take heed to their ways , to walk before me as thou hast walked before me . * And now , O Lord God of Israel , let , I pray thee , thy word to David my father be confirmed . * * Yet , O Lord God of Israel , thou shalt look upon my petition , to hear the prayer which thy servant prays to thee in thy presence this day , * that thine eyes may be open toward this house day and night , even toward the place which thou saidst , My name shall be there , to hear the prayer which thy servant prays (note :)Or , toward (:note ) at this place day and night . * And thou shalt hearken to the prayer of thy servant , and of thy people Israel , which they shall pray toward this place ; and thou shalt hear in thy dwelling-place in heaven , and thou shalt do and be gracious . * Whatsoever trespasses (note :)Gr . each (:note ) any one shall commit against his neighbor , —and if he shall take upon him an oath so that he should swear , and he shall come and make confession before thine altar in this house , * then shalt thou hear from heaven , and do , and thou shalt judge thy people Israel , that the wicked should be (note :)Or , considered wicked or lawless (:note ) condemned , to recompense his way upon his head ; and to justify the righteous , to give to him according to his righteousness . * When thy people Israel falls before enemies , because they shall sin against thee , and they shall return and confess to thy name , and they shall pray and supplicate in this house , * then shalt thou hear from heaven , and be gracious to the sins of thy people Israel , and thou shalt restore them to the land which thou gavest to their fathers . * When the heaven is restrained , and there is no rain , because they shall sin against thee , and the shall pray toward this place , and they shall make confession to thy name , and shall turn from their sins when thou shalt have humbled them , * then thou shalt hear from heaven , and be merciful to the sins of thy servant and of thy people Israel ; for thou shalt shew them the good way to walk in it , and thou shalt give rain upon the earth which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance . * If there should be famine , if there should be death , because there should be blasting , locust , or if there be mildew , and if (note :)Gr . his (:note ) their enemy oppress them in any one of their cities , with regard to every Gr . incident or occurrence calamity , every trouble , * every prayer , every supplication whatever shall be made by any man , as they shall know each the plague of his heart , and shall spread abroad his hands to this house , * then shalt thou hearken from heaven , out of thine established dwelling-place , and shalt be merciful , and shalt do , and recompense to every man according to his ways , as thou shalt know his heart , for thou alone knowest the heart of all the children of men : * that they may fear thee all the days that they live upon the land , which thou hast given to our fathers . * And for the stranger who is not of thy people , * when they shall come and pray toward this place , * then shalt thou hear them from heaven , out of thine established dwelling-place , and thou shalt do according to all that the stranger shall call upon thee for , that all the nations may know thy name , and fear thee , as do thy people Israel , and may know that thy name has been called on this house which I have builded . * If it be that thy people shall go forth to war against their enemies in the way by which thou shalt turn them , and pray in the name of the Lord (note :)Gr . by way of (:note ) toward the city which thou hast chosen , and the house which I have built to thy name , * then shalt thou hear from heaven their supplication and their prayer , and shalt execute judgement for them . * If it be that they shall sin against thee , (for there is not a man who will not sin ,) and thou shalt bring them and deliver them up before their enemies , and they that take them captive shall carry them to a land far or near , * and they shall turn their hearts in the land whither they have been carried captives , and turn in the land of their sojourning , and supplicate thee , saying , We have sinned , we have done unjustly , we have transgressed , * and they shall turn to thee with all their heart , and with all their soul , in the land of their enemies whither thou hast carried them captives , and shall pray to thee toward their land which thou hast given to their fathers , and the city which thou hast chosen , and the house which I have built to thy name : * then shalt thou hear from heaven thine established dwelling-place , * and thou shalt be merciful to their unrighteousness wherein they have trespassed against thee , and according to all their transgressions wherewith they have transgressed against thee , and thou shalt (note :)Gr . give them to compassions (:note ) cause them to be pitied before them that carried them captives , and they shall have compassion on them : * for they are thy people and thine inheritance , whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt , out of the midst of the furnace of iron . * And let thine eyes and thine ears be opened to the supplication of thy servant , and to the supplication of thy people Israel , to hearken to them in all things for which they shall call upon thee . * Because thou hast set them apart for an inheritance to thyself out of all the nations of the earth , as thou spokest by the hand of thy servant Moses , when thou broughtest our fathers out of the land of Egypt , (note :)Gr . Lord , Lord , i . e . according to the Hebrews . Lord Jehovah (:note ) O Lord God .—(8:53AA ) Then spoke Solomon concerning the house , when he had finished building it —He manifested the sun in the heaven : the Lord said he would dwell in darkness : build thou my house , a beautiful house for thyself to dwell in anew . Behold , is not this written in the book of the song ? * And it came to pass when Solomon had finished praying to the Lord all this prayer and supplication , that he rose up from before the altar of the Lord , after having knelt upon his knees , and his hands were spread out towards heaven . * And he stood , and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice , saying , * Blessed be the Lord this day , who has given rest to his people Israel , according to all that he said : there has not failed one word among all his good words which he spoke by the hand of his servant Moses . * May the Lord our God be with us , as he was with our fathers ; let him not desert us nor turn from us , * that he may turn our hearts toward him to walk in all his ways , and to keep all his commandments , and his ordinances which he commanded our fathers . * And let these words , (note :)Gr . as (:note ) which I have prayed before the Lord our God , be Gr . approaching near to the Lord our God day and night , to maintain the cause of thy servant , and the cause of thy people Israel Gr . a thing , or word of a day in a day of a year ; But Alex . reads hmera autou , which agrees with the Hebrews . for ever . * that all the nations of the earth may know that the Lord God , he is God , and there is none beside . * And let our hearts be perfect toward the Lord our God , to walk also holily in his ordinances , and to keep his commandments , (note :)Gr . as this day is (:note ) as at this day .

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