2 Chronicles 6:12–21

Solomon’s Prayer for Israel

¹²Then he stood before the altar of Yahweh before all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.

^13aNow Solomon had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had put it in the midst of the court; and he stood on it, ^bknelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven.

¹⁴And he said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, ^athere is no god like You in heaven or on earth, ^bkeeping covenant and lovingkindness to Your slaves who walk before You with all their heart;

^15awho have kept with Your ¹servant David, my father, that which You have ²promised him; indeed You have promised with Your mouth and have fulfilled it by Your hand, as it is this day.

¹⁶“So now, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with Your servant David my father, that which You have promised him, saying, ‘^aYou shall not have a man cut off from before Me who is to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons keep their way to walk in My law as you have walked before Me.’

¹⁷“So now, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, let Your word truly ¹endure which You have spoken to Your servant David.

¹⁸“But ^awill God truly dwell with mankind on the earth? Behold, ^bheaven and the ¹highest heaven cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built.

¹⁹“Yet have regard to the prayer of Your slave and to his supplication, O Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your slave prays before You;

²⁰that Your ^aeyes may be open toward this house day and night, toward ^bthe place of which You have said that You would place Your name there, to listen to the prayer which Your slave shall pray toward this place.

²¹“And listen to the supplications of Your slave and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place; listen from Your dwelling place, from heaven; ^alisten and forgive.