1Then Solomon said, The Lord promised, that he would dwell in [the] darkness;

2and I have built an house to his name, that he should dwell therein without end.

3And Solomon turned his face, and blessed all the multitude of Israel; for all the company stood attentive;

4and he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he hath fulfilled in work that thing, that he spake to David, my father, and said,

5From the day in which I led my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose not a city of all the lineages of Israel, that an house should be builded therein to my name, neither I chose any other man, that he should be duke upon my people Israel;

6but I chose Jerusalem, that my name be therein, and I chose David, to ordain him upon my people Israel.

7And when it was of the will of David, my father, to build an house to the name of the Lord God of Israel,

8the Lord said to him, For this was thy will, to build an house to my name, soothly thou didest well, having such a will,

9but yet thou shalt not build an house to me; nevertheless the son, that shall go out of thy loins, he shall build an house to my name.

10Therefore the Lord hath fulfilled his word, that he spake; and I rose up for David, my father, and I sat on the throne of Israel, as the Lord spake, and I have builded an house to the name of the Lord God of Israel;

11and I have put therein the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord, which he covenanted with the sons of Israel.

12Therefore Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord even against all the multitude of Israel, and stretched forth his hands.

13For Solomon had made a brazen foundament, and had set [or put] it in the midst of the great house, and it had five cubits of length, and five cubits of breadth, and three cubits of height, and he stood there upon [it]; and from that time he kneeled against all the multitude of Israel, and he raised up his hands into heaven,

14and said, Lord God of Israel, none is like thee; thou art God in heaven, and in earth, which keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants, that go before thee in all their heart;

15thou hast given to David thy servant, my father, whatever thing thou hast spoken, or promised, to him; and thou hast fulfilled in work those things, which thou promisedest by mouth, as also this present time proveth.

16Now therefore, Lord God of Israel, fulfill thou to thy servant, my father David, whatever things thou hast spoken, saying, A man of thee shall not fail before me, that shall sit upon the throne of Israel; so nevertheless if thy sons keep my ways, and go in my law, as and thou hast gone before me.

17And now, Lord God of Israel, thy word be made steadfast, which thou spakest to thy servant David.

18Therefore whether it is believeful, that the Lord dwell with men on earth? If heaven and the heavens of heavens may not take, either may not hold thee, Lord, how much more this house, which I have builded?

19But hereto only it is made, that thou, my Lord God, behold there the prayer of thy servant, and the beseeching of him, and that thou hear the prayers, which thy servant poureth [out] before thee;

20that thou open thine eyes upon this house by days and nights, upon the place in which thou promisedest, that thy name should be in-called, and that thou wouldest hear the prayer, which thy servant prayeth therein.

21Hear thou the prayers of thy servant, and of thy people Israel; who-ever prayeth in this place, hear thou from thy dwelling place, that is, from heaven, and do thou mercy to him.

22If any man sinneth against his neighbour, and cometh ready to swear against him, and bindeth himself with cursing before the altar in this house,

23thou shalt hear from heaven, and shalt do the doom of thy servants; so that thou yield to the wicked man his way into his own head, and that thou avenge the just [or rightwise] man, and yield to him after his rightwiseness.

24If thy people Israel is overcome of enemies, for they shall do sin against thee, and if they converted do penance, and beseech thy name, and pray in this place,

25thou shalt hear from heaven, and do thou mercy to the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again into the land, which thou hast given to them, and to their fathers.

26If when heaven is closed, rain come not down for the sin of thy people, and they beseech thee in this place, and acknowledge to thy name, and be turned from their sins, when thou hast tormented them,

27hear thou, Lord, from heaven, and forgive thou the sins to thy servants, and to thy people Israel, and teach thou them a good way, by which they shall enter, and give thou rain to the land, which thou hast given to thy people to have in possession.

28If that hunger riseth in the land, and pestilence, and rust, and wind destroying corns, or crops, and if that a locust, and a bruchus cometh; and if enemies besiege the gates of the city, after that the countries be destroyed; and if in any manner vengeance and sickness oppresseth thy people;

29if any of thy people Israel beseech-eth, and knoweth his vengeance, that is, his sin wherefore he hath deserved vengeance, and sickness, and if he spreadeth abroad his hands in this house,

30thou shalt hear from heaven, that is, from thine high dwelling place, and do thou mercy, and yield thou to each man after his ways, which thou knowest, that he hath in his heart; for thou alone knowest the hearts of the sons of men;

31that they dread thee, and go in thy ways in all days, in which they live on the face of [the] earth, which thou hast given to our fathers.

32Also thou shalt hear from heaven, thy most steadfast dwelling place, a stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, if he cometh from a far land for thy great name, and for thy strong hand, and thine arm stretched forth, and prayeth in this place;

33and thou shalt do all things, for which that pilgrim inwardly calleth thee, that all the people of earth know thy name, and dread thee, as thy people Israel doeth; and that they know, that thy name is called on this house, which I have builded to thy name.

34If thy people goeth out to battle against his adversaries, by the way in which thou sendest them, they shall worship thee against the way in which this city is set, which thou hast chosen, and the house which I [have] builded to thy name,

35that thou hear from heaven their prayers and their beseeching, and do thou vengeance to their adversaries.

36And if they sin against thee, for no man is alive that sinneth not, and if thou art wroth with them, and betakest them to their enemies; and enemies lead them prisoners into a far land, either certainly which land is nigh;

37and if they be converted in their heart in the land, to which they be led prisoners, and they do penance, and beseech thee in the land of their captivity, and say, We have sinned, we have done wickedly, we did unjustly;

38and if they turn again to thee in all their heart, and in all their soul, in the land of their captivity, to which they be led, and if they shall worship thee against the way of their land, which thou hast given to the fathers of them, and against the way of the city which thou hast chosen, and of the house which I [have] builded to thy name;

39that thou hear from heaven, that is, from thy steadfast dwelling place, the prayers of them, and that thou make doom, and forgive to thy people, though they be sinful;

40for thou art my God; I beseech thee, be thine eyes opened, and thine ears be attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.

41Now therefore, Lord God, rise up into thy rest, thou and the ark of thy strength; Lord God, thy priests be clothed with health, and thy holy men be glad in good things.

42Lord God, turn thou not away the face of thy christ or thine anointed; have thou mind on the mercies of David thy servant.