{1Ki 8:1-11; 2Ch 5:1-14}
8:1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers of the sons of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the city of David, which is Zion. 8:2And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. 8:3 And all the elders of Israel came and the priests took up the ark. 8:4 And they brought up the ark of Jehovah and the tent of meeting and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; even these the priests and the Levites brought up.
8:5 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 counted nor numbered for a multitude.
8:6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim. 8:7 Because the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves of it above.8:8 And the staves were so long that the ends of the staves were seen from the holy place before the oracle. But they were not seen outside. And they are there to this day.
8:9 Nothing was in the ark except the two tablets of stone which Moses put there at Horeb when Jehovah made a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
8:10 And it happened, when the priests came out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Jehovah, 8:11 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud, because the glory of Jehovah filled the house of Jehovah.
{1Ki 8:12-21; 2Ch 6:1-11}
8:12 Then Solomon spoke, Jehovah has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. 8:13 I have surely built you a house of dwelling, a place for you to dwell in everlasting.
8:14 And the king turned his face around and blessed all the assembly of Israel. And all the assembly of Israel stood. 8:15 And he said, Praise Jehovah, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying, 8:16 Since the day that I brought out 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 there, but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
8:17 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel. 8:18 But Jehovah said to David my father, Because it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart. 8:19Nevertheless you will not build the house, but your son that will come forth out of your loins, he will build the house for my name.
8:20 And Jehovah has established his word that he spoke, and I have risen up in the place of David my father and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah promised and have built the house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel. 8:21 And I have set a place for the ark there, in which is the covenant of Jehovah, which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
{1Ki 8:22-53; 2Ch 6:12-42}
8:22 And Solomon stood before the altar of Jehovah in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread forth his hands toward heaven. 8:23 And he said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, no God is like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart, 8:24who have kept with your servant David my father what you did promise him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.
8:25 Now therefore, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, There will not be cut off from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.
8:26 Now therefore, O God of Israel, I beseech you, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father. 8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain you. How much less this house that I have built!
8:28 Yet you have turned toward the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, O Jehovah my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you this day, 8:29 that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, My name will be there, to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray toward this place. 8:30 And listen to the supplication of your servant and of your people Israel, when they will pray toward this place. Yes, when you listen in heaven your dwelling-place and when you hear, forgive.
8:31 If a man sins against his neighbor and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear and he comes and swears before your altar in this house, 8:32then you listen in heaven and do and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
8:33 When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, if they turn again to you and confess your name and pray and make supplication to you in this house,8:34 then you listen in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.
8:35 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 afflict them, 8:36 then you listen 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 upon your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
8:37 If famine is in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness, 8:38 whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who will know every man the plague of his own heart and spread forth his hands toward this house, 8:39 then you listen in heaven your dwelling-place and forgive and do and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (because you, even you only, know the hearts of all the sons of men), 8:40 that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
8:41 Moreover concerning the foreigner who is not of your people Israel, when he will come out of a far country for your name's sake 8:42 (because they will hear of your great name and of your mighty hand and of your outstretched arm), when he will come and pray toward this house, 8:43 you listen in heaven 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, to fear you, as does your people Israel and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.
8:44 If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you will send them and they pray to Jehovah toward the city which you have chosen and toward the house which I have built for your name, 8:45 then you listen in heaven to their prayer and their supplication and make their judgement happen.
8:46 If they sin against you (because there is no man that does not sin) and you are angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, afar off or near, 8:47 yet if they will rethink themselves in the land where they are carried captive and turn again and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, We have sinned and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly,8:48 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who carried them 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 for your name, 8:49 then you listen to their prayer and their supplication in heaven your dwelling place and maintain their case, 8:50 and forgive your people who have sinned against you and all their transgressions by which they have transgressed against you and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them 8:51 (because they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron); 8:52 that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.
8:53 Because you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord Jehovah.
{1Ki 8:54-66; 2Ch 7:1-10}
8:54 And it was so, that, when Solomon had made an end of 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 forth toward heaven.
8:55 And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying, 8:56 Praise Jehovah, who has given rest to his people Israel according to all that he promised. Not one word of all his good promise has failed , which he promised by Moses his servant. 8:57 Jehovah our God be with us as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us, nor forsake us, 8:58 that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
8:59 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, as every day will require, 8:60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Jehovah, he is God; there is none else. 8:61 Let your* heart therefore be perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in his statutes and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
8:62 And the king and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Jehovah. 8:63 And Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he offered to Jehovah, twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of Jehovah.
8:64 The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before the house of Jehovah, because he offered the burnt-offering there and the food-offering and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar that was before Jehovah was too little to receive the burnt-offering and the food-offering and the fat of the peace-offerings.
8:65 So Solomon held the feast at that time and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Jehovah our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days. 8:66 On the eighth day he sent the people away. And they blessed the king and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that Jehovah had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people.