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[1] Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.
[2] All the men of Israel assembled themselves to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
[3] All the elders of Israel came, and the priests picked up the ark.
[4] They brought up Yahweh’s ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent. The priests and the Levites brought these up.
[5] King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.
[6] The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings.
[7] For the cherubim spread their wings out over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.
[8] The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen outside. They are there to this day.
[9] There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
[10] It came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled Yahweh’s house,
[11] so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.
[12] Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
[13] I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.”
[14] The king turned his face around and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood.
[15] He said, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
[16] ‘Since the day that I brought 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.’
[17] “Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
[18] 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.
[19] Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’
[20] Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
[21] There I have set a place for the ark, in which is Yahweh’s covenant, which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
[22] Solomon stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;
[23] and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God 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;
[24] who has kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today.
[25] Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’
[26] “Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.
[27] But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
[28] Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today;
[29] that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.
[30] Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.
[31] “If a man sins 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,
[32] then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
[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,
[34] then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.
[35] “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 afflict them,
[36] 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.
[37] “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
[38] whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,
[39] then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);
[40] that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
[41] “Moreover, concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a far country for your name’s sake
[42] (for they shall hear of your great name and of your mighty hand and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house,
[43] hear 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 do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.
[44] “If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name,
[45] then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
[46] 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 the land of the enemy, far off or near;
[47] yet if they repent 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,’
[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,
[49] then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;
[50] and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them
[51] (for they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);
[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.
[53] For 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, Lord Yahweh.”
[54] It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before Yahweh’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.
[55] He stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
[56] “Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.
[57] May Yahweh our God be with us as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us,
[58] that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
[59] Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as every day requires;
[60] that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh himself is God. There is no one else.
[61] “Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”
[62] The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh.
[63] Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, twenty two thousand head of cattle and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated Yahweh’s house.
[64] The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before Yahweh’s house; for there he offered the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.
[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 Yahweh our God, seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.
[66] On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.

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1 Kings 8 (KJVS)

[1] Then Solomon H8010 assembled H6950 (8686) the elders H2205 of Israel H3478, and all the heads H7218 of the tribes H4294, the chief H5387 of the fathers H1 of the children H1121 of Israel H3478, unto king H4428 Solomon H8010 in Jerusalem H3389, that they might bring up H5927 (8687) the ark H727 of the covenant H1285 of the LORD H3068 out of the city H5892 of David H1732, which [is] Zion H6726.
[2] And all the men H376 of Israel H3478 assembled H6950 (8735) themselves unto king H4428 Solomon H8010 at the feast H2282 in the month H3391 Ethanim H388, which [is] the seventh H7637 month H2320.
[3] And all the elders H2205 of Israel H3478 came H935 (8799), and the priests H3548 took up H5375 (8799) the ark H727.
[4] And they brought up H5927 (8686) the ark H727 of the LORD H3068, and the tabernacle H168 of the congregation H4150, and all the holy H6944 vessels H3627 that [were] in the tabernacle H168, even those did the priests H3548 and the Levites H3881 bring up H5927 (8686).
[5] And king H4428 Solomon H8010, and all the congregation H5712 of Israel H3478, that were assembled H3259 (8737) unto him, [were] with him before H6440 the ark H727, sacrificing H2076 (8764) sheep H6629 and oxen H1241, that could not be told H5608 (8735) nor numbered H4487 (8735) for multitude H7230.
[6] And the priests H3548 brought in H935 (8686) the ark H727 of the covenant H1285 of the LORD H3068 unto his place H4725, into the oracle H1687 of the house H1004, to the most H6944 holy H6944 [place, even] under the wings H3671 of the cherubims H3742.
[7] For the cherubims H3742 spread forth H6566 (8802) [their] two wings H3671 over the place H4725 of the ark H727, and the cherubims H3742 covered H5526 (8799) the ark H727 and the staves H905 thereof above H4605.
[8] And they drew out H748 (8686) the staves H905, that the ends H7218 of the staves H905 were seen out H7200 (8735) in the holy H6944 [place] before H6440 the oracle H1687, and they were not seen H7200 (8735) without H2351: and there they are unto this day H3117.
[9] [There was] nothing in the ark H727 save H7535 the two H8147 tables H3871 of stone H68, which Moses H4872 put H3240 (8689) there at Horeb H2722, when the LORD H3068 made H3772 (8804) [a covenant] with the children H1121 of Israel H3478, when they came out H3318 (8800) of the land H776 of Egypt H4714.
[10] And it came to pass, when the priests H3548 were come out H3318 (8800) of the holy H6944 [place], that the cloud H6051 filled H4390 (8804) the house H1004 of the LORD H3068,
[11] So that the priests H3548 could H3201 (8804) not stand H5975 (8800) to minister H8334 (8763) because H6440 of the cloud H6051: for the glory H3519 of the LORD H3068 had filled H4390 (8804) the house H1004 of the LORD H3068.
[12] Then spake H559 (8804) Solomon H8010, The LORD H3068 said H559 (8804) that he would dwell H7931 (8800) in the thick darkness H6205.
[13] I have surely H1129 (8800) built H1129 (8804) thee an house H1004 to dwell in H2073, a settled place H4349 for thee to abide in H3427 (8800) for ever H5769.
[14] And the king H4428 turned H5437 his face H6440 about H5437 (8686), and blessed H1288 (8762) all the congregation H6951 of Israel H3478: (and all the congregation H6951 of Israel H3478 stood H5975 (8802);)
[15] And he said H559 (8799), Blessed H1288 (8803) [be] the LORD H3068 God H430 of Israel H3478, which spake H1696 (8765) with his mouth H6310 unto David H1732 my father H1, and hath with his hand H3027 fulfilled H4390 (8765) [it], saying H559 (8800),
[16] Since the day H3117 that I brought forth H3318 (8689) my people H5971 Israel H3478 out of Egypt H4714, I chose H977 (8804) no city H5892 out of all the tribes H7626 of Israel H3478 to build H1129 (8800) an house H1004, that my name H8034 might be therein; but I chose H977 (8799) David H1732 to be over my people H5971 Israel H3478.
[17] And it was in the heart H3824 of David H1732 my father H1 to build H1129 (8800) an house H1004 for the name H8034 of the LORD H3068 God H430 of Israel H3478.
[18] And the LORD H3068 said H559 (8799) unto David H1732 my father H1, Whereas H3282 H834 it was in thine heart H3824 to build H1129 (8800) an house H1004 unto my name H8034, thou didst well H2895 (8689) that it was in thine heart H3824.
[19] Nevertheless H7535 thou shalt not build H1129 (8799) the house H1004; but thy son H1121 that shall come forth out H3318 (8802) of thy loins H2504, he shall build H1129 (8799) the house H1004 unto my name H8034.
[20] And the LORD H3068 hath performed H6965 (8686) his word H1697 that he spake H1696 (8765), and I am risen up H6965 (8799) in the room of David H1732 my father H1, and sit H3427 (8799) on the throne H3678 of Israel H3478, as the LORD H3068 promised H1696 (8765), and have built H1129 (8799) an house H1004 for the name H8034 of the LORD H3068 God H430 of Israel H3478.
[21] And I have set H7760 (8799) there a place H4725 for the ark H727, wherein [is] the covenant H1285 of the LORD H3068, which he made H3772 (8804) with our fathers H1, when he brought them out H3318 (8687) of the land H776 of Egypt H4714.
[22] And Solomon H8010 stood H5975 (8799) before H6440 the altar H4196 of the LORD H3068 in the presence of H5048 all the congregation H6951 of Israel H3478, and spread forth H6566 (8799) his hands H3709 toward heaven H8064:
[23] And he said H559 (8799), LORD H3068 God H430 of Israel H3478, [there is] no God H430 like thee, in heaven H8064 above H4605, or on earth H776 beneath, who keepest H8104 (8802) covenant H1285 and mercy H2617 with thy servants H5650 that walk H1980 (8802) before H6440 thee with all their heart H3820:
[24] Who hast kept H8104 (8804) with thy servant H5650 David H1732 my father H1 that thou promisedst H1696 (8765) him: thou spakest H1696 (8762) also with thy mouth H6310, and hast fulfilled H4390 (8765) [it] with thine hand H3027, as [it is] this day H3117.
[25] Therefore now, LORD H3068 God H430 of Israel H3478, keep H8104 (8798) with thy servant H5650 David H1732 my father H1 that thou promisedst H1696 (8765) him, saying H559 (8800), There shall not fail H3772 (8735) thee a man H376 in my sight H6440 to sit H3427 (8802) on the throne H3678 of Israel H3478; so H7535 that thy children H1121 take heed H8104 (8799) to their way H1870, that they walk H3212 (8800) before H6440 me as thou hast walked H1980 (8804) before H6440 me.
[26] And now, O God H430 of Israel H3478, let thy word H1697, I pray thee, be verified H539 (8735), which thou spakest H1696 (8765) unto thy servant H5650 David H1732 my father H1.
[27] But will God H430 indeed H552 dwell H3427 (8799) on the earth H776? behold, the heaven H8064 and heaven H8064 of heavens H8064 cannot contain H3557 (8770) thee; how much less H637 this house H1004 that I have builded H1129 (8804)?
[28] Yet have thou respect H6437 (8804) unto the prayer H8605 of thy servant H5650, and to his supplication H8467, O LORD H3068 my God H430, to hearken H8085 (8800) unto the cry H7440 and to the prayer H8605, which thy servant H5650 prayeth H6419 (8693) before H6440 thee to day H3117:
[29] That thine eyes H5869 may be open H6605 (8803) toward this house H1004 night H3915 and day H3117, [even] toward the place H4725 of which thou hast said H559 (8804), My name H8034 shall be there: that thou mayest hearken H8085 (8800) unto the prayer H8605 which thy servant H5650 shall make H6419 (8691) toward this place H4725.
[30] And hearken H8085 (8804) thou to the supplication H8467 of thy servant H5650, and of thy people H5971 Israel H3478, when they shall pray H6419 (8691) toward this place H4725: and hear H8085 (8799) thou in heaven H8064 thy dwelling H3427 (8800) place H4725: and when thou hearest H8085 (8804), forgive H5545 (8804).
[31] If any man H376 trespass H2398 (8799) against his neighbour H7453, and an oath H423 be laid H5375 (8804) upon him to cause him to swear H422 (8687), and the oath H423 come H935 (8804) before H6440 thine altar H4196 in this house H1004:
[32] Then hear H8085 (8799) thou in heaven H8064, and do H6213 (8804), and judge H8199 (8804) thy servants H5650, condemning H7561 (8687) the wicked H7563, to bring H5414 (8800) his way H1870 upon his head H7218; and justifying H6663 (8687) the righteous H6662, to give H5414 (8800) him according to his righteousness H6666.
[33] When thy people H5971 Israel H3478 be smitten down H5062 (8736) before H6440 the enemy H341 (8802), because they have sinned H2398 (8799) against thee, and shall turn again H7725 (8804) to thee, and confess H3034 (8689) thy name H8034, and pray H6419 (8694), and make supplication H2603 (8694) unto thee in this house H1004:
[34] Then hear H8085 (8799) thou in heaven H8064, and forgive H5545 (8804) the sin H2403 of thy people H5971 Israel H3478, and bring them again H7725 (8689) unto the land H127 which thou gavest H5414 (8804) unto their fathers H1.
[35] When heaven H8064 is shut up H6113 (8736), and there is no rain H4306, because they have sinned H2398 (8799) against thee; if they pray H6419 (8694) toward this place H4725, and confess H3034 (8689) thy name H8034, and turn H7725 (8799) from their sin H2403, when thou afflictest H6031 (8686) them:
[36] Then hear H8085 (8799) thou in heaven H8064, and forgive H5545 (8804) the sin H2403 of thy servants H5650, and of thy people H5971 Israel H3478, that thou teach H3384 (8686) them the good H2896 way H1870 wherein they should walk H3212 (8799), and give H5414 (8804) rain H4306 upon thy land H776, which thou hast given H5414 (8804) to thy people H5971 for an inheritance H5159.
[37] If there be in the land H776 famine H7458, if there be pestilence H1698, blasting H7711, mildew H3420, locust H697, [or] if there be caterpiller H2625; if their enemy H341 (8802) besiege H6887 (8686) them in the land H776 of their cities H8179; whatsoever plague H5061, whatsoever sickness H4245 [there be];
[38] What prayer H8605 and supplication H8467 soever be [made] by any man H120, [or] by all thy people H5971 Israel H3478, which shall know H3045 (8799) every man H376 the plague H5061 of his own heart H3824, and spread forth H6566 (8804) his hands H3709 toward this house H1004:
[39] Then hear H8085 (8799) thou in heaven H8064 thy dwelling H3427 (8800) place H4349, and forgive H5545 (8804), and do H6213 (8804), and give H5414 (8804) to every man H376 according to his ways H1870, whose heart H3824 thou knowest H3045 (8799); (for thou, [even] thou only, knowest H3045 (8804) the hearts H3824 of all the children H1121 of men H120;)
[40] That they may fear H3372 (8799) thee all the days H3117 that they live H2416 in H6440 the land H127 which thou gavest H5414 (8804) unto our fathers H1.
[41] Moreover concerning a stranger H5237, that [is] not of thy people H5971 Israel H3478, but cometh out H935 (8804) of a far H7350 country H776 for H4616 thy name’s H8034 sake;
[42] (For they shall hear H8085 (8799) of thy great H1419 name H8034, and of thy strong H2389 hand H3027, and of thy stretched out H5186 (8803) arm H2220;) when he shall come H935 (8804) and pray H6419 (8694) toward this house H1004;
[43] Hear H8085 (8799) thou in heaven H8064 thy dwelling H3427 (8800) place H4349, and do H6213 (8804) according to all that the stranger H5237 calleth H7121 (8799) to thee for: that all people H5971 of the earth H776 may know H3045 (8799) thy name H8034, to fear H3372 (8800) thee, as [do] thy people H5971 Israel H3478; and that they may know H3045 (8800) that this house H1004, which I have builded H1129 (8804), is called H7121 (8738) by thy name H8034.
[44] If thy people H5971 go out H3318 (8799) to battle H4421 against their enemy H341 (8802), whithersoever H1870 thou shalt send H7971 (8799) them, and shall pray H6419 (8694) unto the LORD H3068 toward H1870 the city H5892 which thou hast chosen H977 (8804), and [toward] the house H1004 that I have built H1129 (8804) for thy name H8034:
[45] Then hear H8085 (8804) thou in heaven H8064 their prayer H8605 and their supplication H8467, and maintain H6213 (8804) their cause H4941.
[46] If they sin H2398 (8799) against thee, (for [there is] no man H120 that sinneth H2398 (8799) not,) and thou be angry H599 (8804) with them, and deliver H5414 (8804) them to the enemy H341 (8802), so that they carry them away H7617 (8804) captives H7617 (8802) unto H6440 the land H776 of the enemy H341 (8802), far H7350 or near H7138;
[47] [Yet] if they shall bethink H7725 (8689) themselves in the land H776 whither they were carried captives H7617 (8738), and repent H7725 (8804) H3820, and make supplication H2603 (8694) unto thee in the land H776 of them that carried them captives H7617 (8802), saying H559 (8800), We have sinned H2398 (8804), and have done perversely H5753 (8689), we have committed wickedness H7561 (8804);
[48] And [so] return H7725 (8804) unto thee with all their heart H3824, and with all their soul H5315, in the land H776 of their enemies H341 (8802), which led them away captive H7617 (8804), and pray H6419 (8694) unto thee toward H1870 their land H776, which thou gavest H5414 (8804) unto their fathers H1, the city H5892 which thou hast chosen H977 (8804), and the house H1004 which I have built H1129 (8804) for thy name H8034:
[49] Then hear H8085 (8804) thou their prayer H8605 and their supplication H8467 in heaven H8064 thy dwelling H3427 (8800) place H4349, and maintain H6213 (8804) their cause H4941,
[50] And forgive H5545 (8804) thy people H5971 that have sinned H2398 (8804) against thee, and all their transgressions H6588 wherein they have transgressed H6586 (8804) against thee, and give H5414 (8804) them compassion H7356 before H6440 them who carried them captive H7617 (8802), that they may have compassion H7355 (8765) on them:
[51] For they [be] thy people H5971, and thine inheritance H5159, which thou broughtest forth H3318 (8689) out of Egypt H4714, from the midst H8432 of the furnace H3564 of iron H1270:
[52] That thine eyes H5869 may be open H6605 (8803) unto the supplication H8467 of thy servant H5650, and unto the supplication H8467 of thy people H5971 Israel H3478, to hearken H8085 (8800) unto them in all that they call H7121 (8800) for unto thee.
[53] For thou didst separate H914 (8689) them from among all the people H5971 of the earth H776, [to be] thine inheritance H5159, as thou spakest H1696 (8765) by the hand H3027 of Moses H4872 thy servant H5650, when thou broughtest H3318 (8687) our fathers H1 out of Egypt H4714, O Lord H136 GOD H3069.
[54] And it was [so], that when Solomon H8010 had made an end H3615 (8763) of praying H6419 (8692) all this prayer H8605 and supplication H8467 unto the LORD H3068, he arose H6965 (8804) from before H6440 the altar H4196 of the LORD H3068, from kneeling H3766 (8800) on his knees H1290 with his hands H3709 spread up H6566 (8803) to heaven H8064.
[55] And he stood H5975 (8799), and blessed H1288 (8762) all the congregation H6951 of Israel H3478 with a loud H1419 voice H6963, saying H559 (8800),
[56] Blessed H1288 (8803) [be] the LORD H3068, that hath given H5414 (8804) rest H4496 unto his people H5971 Israel H3478, according to all that he promised H1696 (8765): there hath not failed H5307 (8804) one H259 word H1697 of all his good H2896 promise H1697, which he promised H1696 (8765) by the hand H3027 of Moses H4872 his servant H5650.
[57] The LORD H3068 our God H430 be with us, as he was with our fathers H1: let him not leave H5800 (8799) us, nor forsake H5203 (8799) us:
[58] That he may incline H5186 (8687) our hearts H3824 unto him, to walk H3212 (8800) in all his ways H1870, and to keep H8104 (8800) his commandments H4687, and his statutes H2706, and his judgments H4941, which he commanded H6680 (8765) our fathers H1.
[59] And let these my words H1697, wherewith I have made supplication H2603 (8694) before H6440 the LORD H3068, be nigh H7138 unto the LORD H3068 our God H430 day H3119 and night H3915, that he maintain H6213 (8800) the cause H4941 of his servant H5650, and the cause H4941 of his people H5971 Israel H3478 at all times H3117 H3117, as the matter H1697 shall require:
[60] That all the people H5971 of the earth H776 may know H3045 (8800) that the LORD H3068 [is] God H430, [and that there is] none else.
[61] Let your heart H3824 therefore be perfect H8003 with the LORD H3068 our God H430, to walk H3212 (8800) in his statutes H2706, and to keep H8104 (8800) his commandments H4687, as at this day H3117.
[62] And the king H4428, and all Israel H3478 with him, offered H2076 (8802) sacrifice H2077 before H6440 the LORD H3068.
[63] And Solomon H8010 offered H2076 (8799) a sacrifice H2077 of peace offerings H8002, which he offered H2076 (8804) unto the LORD H3068, two H8147 and twenty H6242 thousand H505 oxen H1241, and an hundred H3967 and twenty H6242 thousand H505 sheep H6629. So the king H4428 and all the children H1121 of Israel H3478 dedicated H2596 (8799) the house H1004 of the LORD H3068.
[64] The same day H3117 did the king H4428 hallow H6942 (8765) the middle H8432 of the court H2691 that [was] before H6440 the house H1004 of the LORD H3068: for there he offered H6213 (8804) burnt offerings H5930, and meat offerings H4503, and the fat H2459 of the peace offerings H8002: because the brasen H5178 altar H4196 that [was] before H6440 the LORD H3068 [was] too little H6996 to receive H3557 (8687) the burnt offerings H5930, and meat offerings H4503, and the fat H2459 of the peace offerings H8002.
[65] And at that time H6256 Solomon H8010 held H6213 (8799) a feast H2282, and all Israel H3478 with him, a great H1419 congregation H6951, from the entering H935 (8800) in of Hamath H2574 unto the river H5158 of Egypt H4714, before H6440 the LORD H3068 our God H430, seven H7651 days H3117 and seven H7651 days H3117, [even] fourteen H702 H6240 days H3117.
[66] On the eighth H8066 day H3117 he sent H7971 the people H5971 away H7971 (8765): and they blessed H1288 (8762) the king H4428, and went H3212 (8799) unto their tents H168 joyful H8056 and glad H2896 of heart H3820 for all the goodness H2896 that the LORD H3068 had done H6213 (8804) for David H1732 his servant H5650, and for Israel H3478 his people H5971.

Young’s Literal Translation

1 Kings 8 (YLT)

[1] Then doth Solomon assemble the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, princes of the fathers of the sons of Israel, unto king Solomon, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah from the city of David-it is Zion;
[2] and all the men of Israel are assembled unto king Solomon, in the month of Ethanim, in the festival-is the seventh month.
[3] And all the elders of Israel come in, and the priests lift up the ark,
[4] and bring up the ark of Jehovah, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that are in the tent, yea, the priests and the Levites bring them up.
[5] And king Solomon and all the company of Israel who are met unto him are with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that are not counted nor numbered for multitude.
[6] And the priests bring in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah unto its place, unto the oracle of the house, unto the holy of holies, unto the place of the wings of the cherubs;
[7] for the cherubs are spreading forth two wings unto the place of the ark, and the cherubs cover over the ark, and over its staves from above;
[8] and they lengthen the staves, and the heads of the staves are seen from the holy place on the front of the oracle, and are not seen without, and they are there unto this day.
[9] There is nothing in the ark, only the two tables of stone which Moses put there in Horeb, when Jehovah covenanted with the sons of Israel in their going out of the land of Egypt.
[10] And it cometh to pass, in the going out of the priests from the holy place, that the cloud hath filled the house of Jehovah,
[11] and the priests have not been able to stand to minister because of the cloud, for the honour of Jehovah hath filled the house of Jehovah.
[12] Then said Solomon, ‘Jehovah hath said to dwell in thick darkness;
[13] I have surely built a house of habitation for Thee; a fixed place for Thine abiding to the ages.’
[14] And the king turneth round his face, and blesseth the whole assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel is standing.
[15] And he saith, ‘Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, who spake by His mouth with David my father, and by His hand hath fulfilled it, saying,
[16] From the day that I brought out My people, even Israel, from Egypt, I have not fixed on a city out of all the tribes of Israel, to build a house for My name being there; and I fix on David to be over My people Israel.
[17] ‘And it is with the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Jehovah, God of Israel,
[18] 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;
[19] only, thou dost not build the house, but thy son who is coming out from thy loins, he doth build the house for My name.
[20] ‘And Jehovah doth establish His word which He spake, and I am risen up instead of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah spake, and build the house for the name of Jehovah, God of Israel,
[21] and set there a place for the ark, where is the covenant of Jehovah which He made with our fathers in His bringing them out from the land of Egypt.’
[22] And Solomon standeth before the altar of Jehovah, over-against all the assembly of Israel, and spreadeth his hands towards the heavens,
[23] and saith, ‘Jehovah, God of Israel, there is not a God like Thee, in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath, keeping the covenant and the kindness for Thy servants, those walking before Thee with all their heart,
[24] who hast kept for Thy servant David my father that which Thou spakest to him; yea, Thou speakest with Thy mouth, and with Thy hand hast fulfilled it, as at this day.
[25] ‘And now, Jehovah, God of Israel, keep for Thy servant David my father that which Thou spakest 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 before Me as thou hast walked before Me.
[26] ‘And now, O God of Israel, let it be established, I pray Thee, Thy word which Thou hast spoken to Thy servant, David my father.
[27] But, is it true?-God dwelleth on the earth! lo, the heavens, and the heavens of the heavens do not contain Thee, how much less this house which I have builded!
[28] ‘Then 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 which Thy servant is praying before Thee to-day,
[29] for Thine eyes being open towards this house night and day, towards the place of which Thou hast said, My Name is there; to hearken unto the prayer which Thy servant prayeth towards this place.
[30] ‘Then Thou hast hearkened unto the supplication of Thy servant, and of Thy people Israel, which they pray towards this place; yea, Thou dost hearken in the place of Thy dwelling, in the heavens-and Thou hast hearkened, and hast forgiven,
[31] that which a man sinneth against his neighbour, and he hath lifted up upon him an oath to cause him to swear, and the oath hath come in before Thine altar in this house,
[32] then Thou dost hear in the heavens, and hast done, and hast judged Thy servants, to declare wicked the wicked, to put his way on his head, and to declare righteous the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
[33] ‘In Thy people Israel being smitten before an enemy, because they sin against Thee, and they have turned back unto Thee, and have confessed Thy name, and prayed, and made supplication unto Thee in this house,
[34] then thou dost hear in the heavens, and hast forgiven the sin of Thy people Israel, and brought them back unto the ground that Thou gavest to their fathers.
[35] ‘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, and from their sin turn back, for Thou dost afflict them,
[36] then Thou dost hear in the heavens, and hast forgiven the sin of Thy servants, and of Thy people Israel, for Thou directest them the good way in which they go, and hast given rain on Thy land which Thou hast given to Thy people for inheritance.
[37] ‘Famine-when it is in the land; pestilence-when it is; blasting, mildew, locust; caterpillar-when it is; when its enemy hath distressed it in the land in its gates, any plague, any sickness,-
[38] any prayer, any supplication that is of any man of all Thy people Israel, who know each the plague of his own heart, and hath spread his hands towards this house,
[39] then Thou dost hear in the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, and hast forgiven, and hast done, and hast given to each according to all his ways, whose heart Thou knowest, (for Thou hast known-Thyself alone-the heart of all the sons of man),
[40] so that they fear Thee all the days that they are living on the face of the ground that Thou hast given to our fathers.
[41] ‘And also, unto the stranger who is not of Thy people Israel, and hath come from a land afar off for Thy name’s sake-
[42] (for they hear of Thy great name, and of Thy strong hand, and of Thy stretched-out arm)-and he hath come in and prayed towards this house,
[43] Thou dost hear in the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, and hast done according to all that the stranger calleth unto Thee for, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Thy name, to fear Thee like Thy people Israel, and to know that Thy name hath been called on this house which I have builded.
[44] ‘When Thy people doth go out to battle against its enemy, in the way that Thou dost send them, and they have prayed unto Jehovah the way of the city which thou hast fixed on, and of the house which I have builded for Thy name;
[45] then Thou hast heard in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and hast maintained their cause.
[46] ‘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 up before an enemy, and they have taken captive their captivity unto the land of the enemy far off or near;
[47] 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 captors, saying, We have sinned and done perversely-we have done wickedly;
[48] yea, they have turned back unto Thee, with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and have prayed unto Thee the way of their land, which Thou gavest to their fathers, the city which Thou hast chosen, and the house which I have builded for Thy name:
[49] ‘Then Thou hast heard in the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, their prayer and their supplication, and hast maintained their cause,
[50] and hast forgiven Thy people who have sinned against Thee, even all their transgressions which they have transgressed against Thee, and hast given them mercies before their captors, and they have had mercy on them-
[51] (for Thy people and Thy inheritance are they, whom Thou didst bring out of Egypt, out of the midst of the furnace of iron)-
[52] for Thine eyes being open unto the supplication of Thy servant, and unto the supplication of Thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all they call unto Thee for;
[53] for Thou hast separated them to Thyself for an inheritance, out of all the peoples of the earth, as Thou didst speak by the hand of Moses Thy servant, in Thy bringing out our fathers from Egypt, O Lord Jehovah.’
[54] And it cometh to pass, at Solomon’s finishing to pray unto Jehovah all this prayer and supplication, he hath risen from before the altar of Jehovah, from bending on his knees, and his hands spread out to the heavens,
[55] and he standeth and blesseth all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
[56] ‘Blessed is Jehovah who hath given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He hath spoken; there hath not fallen one word of all His good word, which He spake by the hand of Moses his servant.
[57] ‘Jehovah our God is with us as He hath been with our fathers; He doth not forsake us nor leave us;
[58] to incline our heart unto Himself, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commands, and His statutes, and His judgments, which He commanded our fathers;
[59] and these my words with which I have made supplication before Jehovah, are near unto Jehovah our God by day and by night, to maintain the cause of His servant, and the cause of His people Israel, the matter of a day in its day;
[60] for all the peoples of the earth knowing that Jehovah, He is God; there is none else;
[61] and your heart hath been perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commands, as at this day.’
[62] And the king and all Israel with him are sacrificing a sacrifice before Jehovah;
[63] and Solomon sacrificeth the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he hath sacrificed to Jehovah, oxen, twenty and two thousand, and sheep, a hundred and twenty thousand; and the king and all the sons of Israel dedicate the house of Jehovah.
[64] On that day hath the king sanctified the middle of the court that is before the house of Jehovah, for he hath made there the burnt-offering, and the present, and the fat of the peace-offerings; for the altar of brass that is before Jehovah is too little to contain the burnt-offering, and the present, and the fat of the peace-offerings.
[65] And Solomon maketh, at that time, the festival-and all Israel with him, a great assembly from the entering in of Hamath unto the brook of Egypt-before Jehovah our God, seven days and seven days; fourteen days.
[66] On the eighth day he hath sent the people away, and they bless the king, and go to their tents, rejoicing and glad of heart for all the good that Jehovah hath done to David His servant, and to Israel His people.