{1Ki 8:12-21; 2Ch 6:1-11 **}
6:1 Then Solomon spoke, Jehovah has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. 6:2 But I have built for you a house of dwelling and a place for you to dwell in everlasting.
6:3 And the king turned his face and blessed all the assembly of Israel. And all the assembly of Israel stood. 6:4 And he said, Praise Jehovah, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying, 6:5 Since the day that I brought out 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 did I choose any man to be ruler over my people Israel. 6:6 But I have chosen Jerusalem that my name might be there. And have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
6:7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel. 6:8 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. 6:9Nevertheless you will not build the house, but your son who will come forth out of your loins, he will build the house for my name.
6:10 And Jehovah has performed his word that he spoke. For 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. 6:11 And there I have set the ark in which is the covenant of Jehovah, which he made with the sons of Israel.
{1Ki 8:22-53; 2Ch 6:12-42 **}
6:12 And he stood before the altar of Jehovah in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread forth his hands. 6:13 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 upon it he stood and knelt down upon his knees before all the assembly of Israel and spread forth his hands toward heaven. 6:14 And he said, O Jehovah, 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, 6:15 who have kept with your servant David my father what you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.
6:16 Now therefore, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, There will not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.
6:17 Now therefore, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David. 6:18 But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain you. How much less this house which I have built!
6:19 Yet have you respect to 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, 6:20 that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place of which you have said that you would put your name there, to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray toward this place. 6:21 And listen to the supplications of your servant and of your people Israel, when they will pray toward this place. Yes, you listen from your dwelling-place, even from heaven and when you hear, forgive.
6:22 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, 6:23then you listen from heaven and do and judge your servants, requiting the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
6:24 And if your people Israel be struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you and will turn again and confess your name and pray and make supplication before you in this house,6:25 then you listen 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.
6:26 When the heavens are 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, 6:27 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.
6:28 If there is in the land famine, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar, if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities, whatever plague or whatever sickness there be, 6:29 whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who will know every man his own plague and his own sorrow and will spread forth his hands toward this house, 6:30 then you listen 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 sons of men),6:31 that they may fear you, to walk in your ways so long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
6:32 Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he will come from a far country for your great name's sake and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when they will come and pray toward this house, 6:33 then you listen 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 do your people Israel and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.
6:34 If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you will send them and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen and the house which I have built for your name, 6:35 then you listen from heaven their prayer and their supplication and maintain their cause.
6:36 If they sin against you (for 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 a land far off or near, 6:37 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 their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done perversely and have dealt wickedly, 6:38 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, 6:39 then you listen from heaven, even from your dwelling-place, their prayer and their supplications and maintain their case and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
6:40 Now, O my God, I beseech you, let your eyes be open and let your ears be attendant to the prayer that is made in this place. 6:41 Now therefore arise, O Jehovah God, into your resting-place, you and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, O Jehovah God, be clothed with salvation and let your holy ones rejoice in goodness. 6:42 O Jehovah God, do not turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant.