^{1 Ref} Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men,

^{2 Ref} So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

^{3 Ref} Then, turning his face about, the king gave a blessing to all the men of Israel; and they were all on their feet together.

^{4 Ref} And he said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who himself gave his word to my father David, and with his strong hand has made his word come true, saying,

^{5 Ref} From the day when I took my people out of the land of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; and I took no man to be a ruler over my people Israel;

^{6 Ref} But now I have made selection of Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and of David, to be over my people Israel.

^{7 Ref} Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

^{8 Ref} But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name:

^{9 Ref} But you yourself will not be the builder of the house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.

^{10 Ref} And the Lord has kept his word; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made the house for the name of the Lord the God of Israel.

^{11 Ref} And there I have put the ark, in which is the agreement of the Lord, which he made with the people of Israel.

^{12 Ref} Then he took his place in front of the altar of the Lord, all the men of Israel being present,

^{13 Ref} (For Solomon had made a brass stage, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had put it in the middle of the open space; on this he took his place and went down on his knees before all the meeting of Israel, stretching out his hands to heaven.)

^{14 Ref} And he said, O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth; keeping faith and mercy unchanging for your servants, while they go in your ways with all their hearts;

^{15 Ref} For you have kept the word which you gave to your servant David, my father; with your mouth you said it and with your hand you have made it come true this day.

^{16 Ref} So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place before me on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; if only your children give attention to their ways, walking in my law, as you have done before me.

^{17 Ref} So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, make your word come true which you said to your servant David.

^{18 Ref} But is it truly possible that God may be housed with men on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place: how much less this house which I have made:

^{19 Ref} Still, let your heart be turned to the prayer of your servant and to his prayer for grace, O Lord my God, and give ear to the cry and the prayer which your servant makes before you;

^{20 Ref} That your eyes may be open to this house day and night, to this place of which you have said that you would put your name there; to give ear to the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place.

^{21 Ref} And give ear to the prayers of your servant and of your people Israel, when they make their prayers, turning to this place; give ear from heaven your living-place; and hearing have mercy.

^{22 Ref} If a man does wrong to his neighbour and has to take an oath, and comes before your altar to take his oath in this house:

^{23 Ref} Then let your ear be open in heaven, and be the judge of your servants, giving punishment to the wrongdoer, so that his sin may come on his head; and, by your decision, keeping from evil him who has done no wrong.

^{24 Ref} And if your people Israel are overcome in war, because of their sin against you; if they are turned to you again, honouring your name, making prayers and requesting your grace in this house:

^{25 Ref} Then give ear from heaven, and let the sin of your people Israel have forgiveness, and take them back again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers.

^{26 Ref} When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you: if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them:

^{27 Ref} Then give ear from heaven, so that the sin of your servants and the sin of your people Israel may have forgiveness, when you make clear to them the good way in which they are to go; and send rain on your land which you have given to your people for their heritage.

^{28 Ref} If there is no food in the land, if there is disease, if the fruits of the earth are damaged by heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers: whatever trouble or whatever disease there may be:

^{29 Ref} Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house:

^{30 Ref} Then give ear from heaven your living-place, answering with forgiveness, and give to every man, whose secret heart is open to you, the reward of all his ways; (for you, and you only, have knowledge of the hearts of the children of men;)

^{31 Ref} So that they may give you worship, walking in your ways, as long as they are living in the land which you gave to our fathers.

^{32 Ref} And as for the man from a strange land, who is not of your people Israel but comes from a far country because of the glory of your name and your strong hand and your outstretched arm; when he comes to make his prayer, turning to this house:

^{33 Ref} Then give ear from heaven your living-place, and give him his desire, whatever it may be; so that all the peoples of the earth may have knowledge of your name, worshipping you as do your people Israel, and may see that this house which I have made is truly named by your name.

^{34 Ref} If your people go out to war against their attackers, by whatever way you may send them, if they make their prayers to you turning their faces to this town of yours and to this house which I have put up for your name:

^{35 Ref} Then give ear from heaven to their prayer and their cry for grace, and see right done to them.

^{36 Ref} If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them, and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away prisoners to a land far off or near;

^{37 Ref} And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, turning again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;

^{38 Ref} If with all their heart and soul they are turned again to you, in the land where they are prisoners, the land where they have been taken, and make their prayers, turning their eyes to their land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I have made for your name:

^{39 Ref} Then give ear from heaven your living-place to their prayer and their cry, and see right done to them, answering with forgiveness your people who have done wrong against you.

^{40 Ref} Now, O my God, may your eyes be open and your ears awake to the prayers made in this place.

^{41 Ref} Up! now, O Lord God, come back to your resting-place, you and the ark of your strength: let your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints be glad in what is good.

^{42 Ref} O Lord God, let him whom you have taken for yourself never be given up by you: keep in mind your mercies to David your servant.

^{1 Ref} Then said Solomon, `Jehovah said -- to dwell in thick darkness,

^{2 Ref} and I -- I have built a house of habitation for Thee, and a fixed place for Thy dwelling to the ages.'

^{3 Ref} And the king turneth round his face, and blesseth the whole assembly of Israel, and the whole assembly of Israel is standing,

^{4 Ref} and he saith, `Blessed `is' Jehovah, God of Israel, who hath spoken with His mouth with David my father, and with His hands hath fulfilled `it', saying:

^{5 Ref} `From the day that I brought out My people from the land of Egypt, I have not fixed on a city out of any of the tribes of Israel to build a house for my name being there, and I have not fixed on a man to be leader over My people Israel;

^{6 Ref} and I fix on Jerusalem for My name being there, and I fix on David to be over My people Israel.

^{7 Ref} `And it is with the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Jehovah God of Israel,

^{8 Ref} and Jehovah saith unto David my father, Because that it hath been with thy heart to build a house for My name, thou hast done well that it hath been with thy heart,

^{9 Ref} but thou dost not build the house, for thy son who cometh forth out from thy loins, he doth build the house for My name.

^{10 Ref} `And Jehovah doth establish His word that He spake, and I rise up in the stead of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah spake, and I build the house for the name of Jehovah, God of Israel,

^{11 Ref} and I place there the ark, where `is' the covenant of Jehovah that He made with the sons of Israel.'

^{12 Ref} And he standeth before the altar of Jehovah, over-against all the assembly of Israel, and spreadeth out his hand, --

^{13 Ref} for Solomon hath made a scaffold of brass, and putteth it in the midst of the court, five cubits its length, and five cubits its breadth, and three cubits its height, and he standeth upon it, and kneeleth on his knees over-against all the assembly of Israel, and spreadeth forth his hands towards the heavens --

^{14 Ref} and saith, `O Jehovah God of Israel, there is not like Thee a god in the heavens and in the earth, keeping the covenant and the kindness for Thy servants who are walking before Thee with all their heart;

^{15 Ref} who hast kept for Thy servant David my father that which Thou didst speak to him; yea, Thou dost speak with Thy mouth, and with Thy hand hast fulfilled `it', as at this day.

^{16 Ref} `And now, O Jehovah, God of Israel, keep for Thy servant David my father that which Thou didst speak to him, saying, There is not cut off to thee a man from before Me, sitting on the throne of Israel, only, if thy sons watch their way to walk in My law, as thou hast walked before Me.

^{17 Ref} `And now, O Jehovah, God of Israel, is Thy word stedfast that Thou hast spoken to Thy servant, to David,

^{18 Ref} (for is it true? -- God dwelleth with man on the earth! Lo, the heavens, and the heavens of the heavens, do not contain Thee, how much less this house that I have built?)

^{19 Ref} `And Thou hast turned unto the prayer of Thy servant, and unto his supplication, O Jehovah my God, to hearken unto the cry and unto the prayer that Thy servant is praying before Thee,

^{20 Ref} for Thine eyes being open towards this house by day and by night, towards the place that Thou hast said to put Thy name there, to hearken unto the prayer that Thy servant prayeth towards this place.

^{21 Ref} `And Thou hast hearkened unto the supplications of Thy servant, and of Thy people Israel, that they pray towards this place, and Thou dost hear from the place of Thy dwelling, from the heavens, and hast hearkened, and forgiven.

^{22 Ref} `If a man doth sin against his neighbour, and he hath lifted up on him an oath to cause him to swear, and the oath hath come in before Thine altar in this house --

^{23 Ref} then Thou dost hear from the heavens, and hast done, and hast judged Thy servants, to give back to the wicked, to put his way on his head, and to declare righteous the righteous, to give to him according to his righteousness.

^{24 Ref} `And if Thy people Israel is smitten before an enemy, because they sin against Thee, and they have turned back and confessed Thy name, and prayed and made supplication before Thee in this house --

^{25 Ref} then Thou dost hear from the heavens, and hast forgiven the sin of Thy people Israel, and caused them to turn back unto the ground that Thou hast given to them, and to their fathers.

^{26 Ref} `In the heavens being restrained, and there is no rain, because they sin against Thee, and they have prayed towards this place, and confessed Thy name -- from their sin they turn back because Thou dost afflict them --

^{27 Ref} then Thou dost hear in the heavens, and hast forgiven the sin of Thy servants, and of Thy people Israel, because Thou directest them unto the good way in which they walk, and hast given rain on Thy land that Thou hast given to Thy people for an inheritance.

^{28 Ref} `Famine, when it is in the land, pestilence, when it is, blasting, and mildew, locust, and caterpillar, when they are, when its enemies have distressed it in the land -- its gates, any plague and any sickness;

^{29 Ref} any prayer, any supplication that is for any man, and for all Thy people Israel, when they know each his own plague, and his own pain, and he hath spread out his hands towards this house:

^{30 Ref} then Thou dost hear from the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, and hast forgiven, and hast given to each according to all his ways (because Thou knowest his heart, for Thou -- Thou only -- hast known the heart of the sons of men),

^{31 Ref} so that they fear Thee, to walk in Thy ways, all the days that they are living on the face of the ground that Thou hast given to our fathers.

^{32 Ref} `And also, unto the stranger who is not of Thy people Israel, and he hath come from a land afar off for the sake of Thy great name, and Thy strong hand, and Thy stretched-out arm, and they have come in and prayed towards this house:

^{33 Ref} then Thou dost hear from the heavens, from the settled place of Thy dwelling, and hast done according to all that the stranger calleth unto Thee for: so that all the peoples of the earth do know Thy name, so as to fear Thee, as Thy people Israel, and to know that Thy name is called on this house that I have built.

^{34 Ref} `When Thy people doth go out to battle against its enemies in the way that Thou dost send them, and they have prayed unto Thee the way of this city that Thou hast fixed on, and the house that I have built for Thy name:

^{35 Ref} then Thou hast heard from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and hast maintained their cause.

^{36 Ref} `When they sin against Thee -- for there is not a man who sinneth not -- and Thou hast been angry with them, and hast given them before an enemy, and taken them captive have their captors, unto a land far off or near;

^{37 Ref} and they have turned `it' back unto their heart in the land whither they have been taken captive, and have turned back, and made supplication unto Thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have done wickedly;

^{38 Ref} yea, they have turned back unto Thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their captivity, whither they have taken them captive, and they have prayed the way of their land that Thou hast given to their fathers, and of the city that Thou hast chosen, and of the house that I have built for Thy name:

^{39 Ref} then Thou hast heard from the heavens, from the settled place of Thy dwelling, their prayer and their supplications, and hast maintained their cause, and forgiven Thy people who have sinned against Thee.

^{40 Ref} `Now, my God, let, I beseech Thee, Thine eyes be open, and Thine ears attentive, to the prayer of this place:

^{41 Ref} and now, rise, O Jehovah God, to Thy rest, Thou, and the ark of Thy strength; Thy priests, O Jehovah God, are clothed with salvation, and Thy saints rejoice in the goodness,

^{42 Ref} O Jehovah God, turn not back the face of Thine anointed, be mindful of the kind acts of David Thy servant.'

^{1 Ref} Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

^{2 Ref} But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in forever.

^{3 Ref} The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood.

^{4 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

^{7 Ref} Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

^{8 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} There have I set the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with the children of Israel.

^{12 Ref} He stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands

^{13 Ref} (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 Ref} and he said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven, or on earth; who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;

^{15 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David.

^{18 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name there; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place.

^{21 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

^{36 Ref} If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

^{37 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} Yahweh God, don't turn away the face of your anointed: remember [your] loving kindnesses to David your servant.