1 Kings 8:41–66

⁴¹Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not 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 ^gstrong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house; ⁴³Hear thou in heaven ^dthy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: ^hthat all people of the earth may know thy name, to ⁱfear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that ^†this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.

⁴⁴If 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 toward the house that I have built for thy name: ⁴⁵Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their ^||cause. ⁴⁶If they sin against thee, ^k(for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives ^lunto the land of the enemy, far or near; ^47mYet if 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, ⁿWe have sinned, and ^ohave done perversely, we have committed wickedness; ⁴⁸And so ^preturn 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 ^qtoward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name: ⁴⁹Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven ^dthy dwelling place, and maintain their ^||cause, ⁵⁰And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and ^rgive them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them: ⁵¹For ^sthey be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, ^tfrom the midst of the furnace of iron: ^52uThat 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. ⁵³For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, ^was thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

⁵⁴And 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 ^xkneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. ⁵⁵And he stood, and ^yblessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, ⁵⁶Blessed be the 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. ⁵⁷The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not ^zleave us, nor ^aforsake us: ⁵⁸That he may ^bincline 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. ⁵⁹And 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 ^ccause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel ^†at all times, as the matter shall require: ^60dThat all the people of the earth may know that ^ethe Lord is God, and that there is none else. ⁶¹Let your heart therefore be ^fperfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

^62gAnd the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord. ⁶³And 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. ⁶⁴The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because ^hthe brasen altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings. ⁶⁵And at that time Solomon held ⁱa feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from ^jthe entering in of Hamath unto ^kthe river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and ^lseven days, even fourteen days. ^66lOn the eighth day he sent the people away: and they ^||blessed the king, and went unto their ^mtents joyful and ⁿglad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.