1 Kings 8:22–53

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:⇇

And he said, ↦LORD God of Israel, there is ↦no 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:⇇

Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: ↦thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.⇇

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.⇉⇇

↦And now, O God of Israel, ↦let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.⇇

↦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?⇇

↦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:⇇

↦That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward 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.⇇

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.⇇

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:⇇

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.⇇

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:⇇

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.⇇

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:⇇

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.⇇

If there be ↦in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;⇇

What ↦prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man ↦the plague of his own heart, and ↦spread forth his hands toward this house:⇇

↦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, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)⇇

That they may ↦fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.⇇

Moreover concerning ↦a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but ↦cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;⇇

(↦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;⇇

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 do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.⇉⇇

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 toward the house that I have built for thy name:⇇

Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their ↦cause.⇇

If they sin against thee, (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 ↦unto the land of the enemy, far or near;⇇

↦Yet 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, We have sinned, and have ↦done perversely, we have committed wickedness;⇇

↦And so return 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:⇇

Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their ↦cause,⇇

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:⇇

For they be ↦thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of ↦the furnace of iron:⇇

↦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.⇇

For thou didst ↦separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be ↦thine inheritance, ↦as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.⇇