1 Kings 8
8:1Then king Solomon held an assembly of all the elders of Israel, and all rulers of tribes, leaders of the families of the sons of Israel, for king Solomon in Jerusalem to bear the ark of the covenant of the lord from out of the city of David -- this is Zion,
8:2in the month Athanim during its holiday, this is the seventh month. And all the elders of Israel came.
8:3And the priests lifted the ark,
8:4and the tent of the testimony, and all the holy items, the ones for the tent of the testimony.
8:5And the king and all the people of Israel were before the ark sacrificing oxen and sheep -- innumerable.
8:6And the priests carried the ark of the covenant of the lord unto its place, into the dabir of the house, into the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubim.
8:7For the cherubim were being opened and spread out in the wings over the place of the ark. And the cherubim covered all over the ark, and over its holy things from above.
8:8And the sanctified staves projected, and the heads of the sanctified staves looked out from the holies unto the front of the dabir. And they were not seen outside, and they were there until this day.
8:9There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone, tablets of the covenant, which Moses put there in Horeb, which the lord ordained with the sons of Israel in their going forth from out of the land of Egypt.
8:10And it happened as the priests came forth from out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house.
8:11And the priests were not able to stand to officiate in front of the cloud, for the glory of the lord filled the house of the lord.
8:12Then Solomon said, The lord spoke of encamping in dimness.
8:13And I built a house to your name, holy to you, and readied, and to your chair for you to encamp in it into the eons.
8:14And the king turned his face, and blessed all Israel. And all the assembly of Israel stood.
8:15And he said, Blessed be the lord God of Israel, who spoke by his mouth concerning David my father, and by his hands fulfilled, saying,
8:16From which day I led out my people Israel from Egypt, I have not chosen a city in one chiefdom of Israel to build a house for my name to be there. But I chose in David to be the one leading over my people Israel.
8:17And it was upon the heart of David my father to build a house to the name of the lord God of Israel.
8:18And the lord said to David my father, That it was upon your heart to construct a house to my name you did well, for it was upon your heart.
8:19Except you shall not build the house, but your son, the one coming forth from out of your sides, this one shall build the house to my name.
8:20And the lord raised up his word which he spoke. And I am risen up instead of David my father, and I sat down upon the throne of Israel, as the lord spoke. And I built the house to the name of the lord God of Israel.
8:21And I established there a place for the ark, in which is there the covenant of the lord, which the lord ordained with our fathers, in his leading them from out of the land of Egypt.
8:22And Solomon stood in front of the altar of the lord before all the assembly of Israel. And he opened and spread out his hands into the heaven.
8:23And he said, O lord God of Israel, there is no God as you in the heaven upward and upon the earth below, guarding covenant and mercy with your servant, to the one going before you with his entire heart;
8:24which you kept with your servant David, my father, which you have spoken by your mouth; and by your hands you fulfilled as even this day.
8:25And now, O lord God of Israel, keep with your servant David, my father, that which you spoke to him! saying, There shall not be lifted away from you a man from my face sitting upon the throne of Israel, except that your sons shall guard their ways to go before me, as you went before me.
8:26And now, O lord God of Israel, trustworthy indeed is your word to David my father.
8:27But shall truly God dwell with men upon the earth? Shall the heaven and the heavens of the heavens be sufficient for you? How then also this house which I built to your name?
8:28And should you look also upon my prayer, upon my supplication, O lord God of Israel, to hear the supplication and the prayer which your servant prays before you, to you today.
8:29For your eyes to be open towards this house day and night, to this place which you said, My name shall be there. To listen to the prayer which your servant prays in this place.
8:30Then you shall hearken to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, as many things as they should pray in this place. And you should hear in your dwelling place in heaven, and you shall do; and you shall be propitious,
8:31as many things as a man should sin against his neighbor. And if he should take upon himself an oath to curse him, and he should come and should declare openly in front of your altar in this house;
8:32then you shall listen from the heaven, and shall act, and shall judge your people Israel -- to act as lawless with the lawless, to impute his way upon his head; and to do justice with the just, to impute to him according to his righteousness.
8:33And in the failing of your people Israel before their enemies -- because they shall sin against you, and shall return and shall acknowledge your name, and shall pray and beseech in this house;
8:34then you shall hearken from the heaven, and shall be propitious to the sins of your people Israel, and shall turn towards them in the land which you gave to their fathers.
8:35And in the holding together the heaven and there not being rain because they shall sin against you, and if they shall pray in this place, and shall acknowledge your name, and shall turn from their sins, whenever you should humble them;
8:36then you shall listen from the heaven, and shall be propitious to the sins of your servant, and your people Israel, for you shall manifest to them the good way to go by it; and you shall give rain upon your land, which you gave to your people for an inheritance.
8:37And if famine happens, if plague happens, when there will be a combustion, or the grasshopper, if blight happens, and if his enemy shall afflict him in one of their cities, every event, every misery,
8:38every prayer, every supplication, if it should happen to any man, whenever each one should know the infection of his heart, and should open and spread out his hands in this house,
8:39then you shall hearken from the heaven, from out of your prepared home, and you will be propitious, and you will act, and you will impute to a man according to all his ways, as you know his heart; for you alone know the heart of all of the sons of men;
8:40so that they should fear you all the days which they live upon the earth which you gave to our fathers.
8:41And to the alien who is not from your people -- this Israel, that shall come from a land far off on account of your name,
8:42for they shall hear your great name, and your strong hand, and your high arm, and shall come and pray to this place;
8:43then you shall listen from the heaven, from your prepared home, and you shall act according to all what the alien should call upon you, so that all the peoples of the land should know your name, so that they should fear you, as your people Israel, and should know that your name has been called upon in this house, which I built.
8:44And if your people should go forth to war against their enemies, in the way which you shall send them, and they shall pray in the name of the lord by way of the city which you chose in it, and the house which I built to your name;
8:45then you shall listen from the heaven to their supplication, and their prayer, and shall do justice to them.
8:46If it be that they shall sin against you, for there is no man who shall not sin, and if you should strike upon them, and should deliver them up before their enemies, and the ones taking captive should take them captive into a land far or near;
8:47and they shall turn their hearts in the land which they were led away there, and they shall turn and beseech you in the land of their displacement, saying, We sinned, we acted lawlessly, we did wrong;
8:48and they shall turn to you with their entire heart, and with their entire soul in the land of their enemies who led them away, and should pray to you by way of their land which you gave to their fathers, and of the city which you chose, and of the house of which I constructed to your name;
8:49then you shall listen from the heaven, from your prepared home, of their prayer and their supplication, and you shall do the just thing for them,
8:50and you shall be propitious to their iniquities which they sinned against you, and according to all their wickednesses which ever they disregarded. And you shall appoint them for compassions before the ones capturing them, and they shall pity them.
8:51For they are your people, and your inheritance, whom you led out of the land of Egypt, from out of the midst of the foundry furnace of iron.
8:52And let your eyes and your ears be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel! to hearken to them in all what ever they should call upon you.
8:53For you drew them apart unto yourself for an inheritance from out of all the peoples of the earth, as you spoke by the hand of your servant Moses, in your leading out our fathers from the land of Egypt, O Lord, O lord.
8:54And it came to pass as Solomon completed praying to the lord all the prayer, and this supplication, that he rose up in front of the altar of the lord, having kneeled upon his knees, and his hands being opened and spread out unto the heaven.
8:55And he stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a great voice, saying,
8:56Blessed be the lord who gave today rest to his people Israel, according to all as many things as he spoke. Not one word perished in all of his good words which he spoke by the hand of Moses his servant.
8:57May the lord our God be with us as he was with our fathers. May he not abandon us, nor turn from us;
8:58but to incline our heart to himself, to go in all his ways, and to guard all his commandments, and his orders, and his judgments, which he gave charge to our fathers.
8:59And let these words be which I have beseeched before the lord our God today, approaching to the lord our God day and night, to do the right action for your servant, and the right action for your people Israel -- a days matter in its day!
8:60How that all the peoples of the earth should know that the lord God -- he is God, and is there no other.
8:61And let our hearts be perfect to the lord our God! to go sacredly by his orders, and to keep his commandments as this day.
8:62And the king, and all the sons of Israel sacrificed a sacrifice before the lord.
8:63And king Solomon sacrificed the sacrifices of the peace offerings which he sacrificed to the lord -- two and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. And the king dedicated the house of the lord, and with all the sons of Israel.
8:64In that day the king sanctified the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the lord; for he prepared there the whole burnt-offering, and the sacrifice offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the altar of brass before the lord was small so as to not be able to receive the whole burnt-offering, and the gift offering, and the sacrifices of the peace offerings.
8:65And Solomon observed the holiday feast in that day, and Israel with him, a great assembly from the entering of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the lord our God seven days and seven days -- four and ten days.
8:66And on the eighth day he sent out the people, and they blessed the king. And each went forth unto his tent rejoicing, and with good heart over the good things which the lord did to David his servant, and to Israel his people.