Israel.
18 And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto
my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.
19 Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy
loins, he shall build the house unto my name.
20 And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David
my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the
name of the LORD God of Israel.
21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein isthe covenant of the LORD, which he made
with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of
Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, there isno God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth
beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their
heart:
24 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also
with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled itwith thine hand, as it isthis day.
25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou
promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of
Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast
walked before me.
26 And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy
servant David my father.
27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot
contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God,
to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
29 That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, eventoward the place of
which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which
thy servant shall make toward this place.
30 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they
shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest,
forgive.
31 If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to
swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:
32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring
his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
33 When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against
thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto
thee in this house:
34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto
the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.
35 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they
pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest
them:
36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that
thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou
hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, orif there be

caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague,
whatsoever sickness there be;
38 What prayer and supplication soever be madeby any man, orby all thy people Israel, which
shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man
according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, eventhou only, knowest the hearts
of all the children of men;)
40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our
fathers.
41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that isnot of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far
country for thy name's sake;
42 (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;)
when he shall come and pray toward this house;
43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to
thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as dothy people Israel;
and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.
44 If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and
shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and towardthe house that I
have built for thy name:
45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
46 If they sin against thee, (for there isno man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them,
and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the
enemy, far or near;
47 Yetif they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and
repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying,
We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
48 And soreturn unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their
enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest
unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy
name:
49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and
maintain their cause,
50 And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein
they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them
captive, that they may have compassion on them:
51 For they bethy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from
the midst of the furnace of iron:
52 That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication
of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.
53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to bethine inheritance,
as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt,
O Lord GOD.
54 And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and
supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his
knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
56 Blessed bethe LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he
promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand
of Moses his servant.

57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake
us:
58 That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his
commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
59 And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto
the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his
people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
60 That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD isGod, and that there isnone else.
61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to
keep his commandments, as at this day.
62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD.
63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and
twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the
children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.
64 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that wasbefore the house of the
LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace
offerings: because the brasen altar that wasbefore the LORD wastoo little to receive the burnt
offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from
the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven
days, evenfourteen days.
66 On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their
tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant,
and for Israel his people.
1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the
king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
3 And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made
before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and
mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in
uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, andwilt keep my statutes and
my judgments:
5 Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David
thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
6 Butif ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my
commandments andmy statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and
worship them:
7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I
have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a
byword among all people:
8 And at this house, whichis high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall
hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their
fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them,
and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the
house of the LORD, and the king's house,
11 (NowHiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with