Dual Panel1THEN SOLOMON said, The Lord has said that He would dwell in the thick darkness;
2I have built You a house, [in which the dark Holy of Holies seems] a [fitting] abode for You, a place for You to dwell in forever.
3And the king turned his face and blessed all the assembly of Israel, and they all stood.
4And he said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, Who has fulfilled with His hands what He promised with His mouth to David my father, saying,
5Since the day that I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that My Name might be there, neither chose I any man to be a ruler over My people Israel;
6But I have chosen Jerusalem, that My Name [and the symbol of My presence] might be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.
7Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the Name {and} renown of the Lord, the God of Israel.
8But the Lord said to David my father, Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name {and} renown, you did well that it was in your heart.
9Yet you shall not build the house, but your son, who shall be born to you--he shall build the house for My Name.
10The Lord therefore has performed His word that He has spoken, for I have risen up in the place of David my father and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the Name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
11In it have I put the ark [the symbol of His presence], in which is the covenant of the Lord [the Ten Commandments] which He made with the people of Israel.
12And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread forth his hands.
13For he had made a bronze scaffold, five cubits square and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; upon it he stood, and he knelt upon his knees before all the assembly of Israel and spread forth his hands toward heaven,
14And said, O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like You in the heavens or in the earth, keeping covenant and showing mercy {and} loving-kindness to Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts,
15You Who have kept Your promises to my father David and fulfilled with Your hand what You spoke with Your mouth, as it is today.
16Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, keep with Your servant David my father that which You promised him, saying, There shall not fail a man in My sight to sit on the throne of Israel, provided your children are careful to walk in My law as you, David, have walked before Me.
17Now then, O Lord, God of Israel, let Your word to Your servant David be verified.
18But will God actually dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built!
19Yet have respect for the prayer of Your servant and for his supplication, O Lord my God, to listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant prays before You,
20That Your eyes may be open upon this house day and night, toward the place in which You have said You would put Your Name [and the symbol of your presence], to listen to {and} heed the prayer which Your servant prays facing this place.
21So listen to {and} heed the requests of Your servant and Your people Israel which they shall make facing this place. Hear from Your dwelling place, heaven; and when You hear, forgive.
22If a man sins against his neighbor, and he is required to take an oath, and the oath comes before Your altar in this house,
23Then hear from heaven and do; and judge Your servants, requiting the wicked by bringing his conduct upon his own head, and justifying the [uncompromisingly] righteous by giving him according to his righteousness (his uprightness and right standing with God).
24If Your people Israel have been defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against You, and shall return, confess Your name [and You Yourself], and pray and make supplication before You in this house,
25Then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel and bring them again to the land which You gave to them and their fathers.
26When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, yet if they pray toward this place, confess your name [and You Yourself], and turn from their sin when You afflict them,
27Then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, [all of] Your people Israel, when You have taught them the good way in which they should walk. And send rain upon Your land which You have given to Your people for an inheritance.
28If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, blight, mildew, locusts, or caterpillars, if their enemies besiege them in any of their cities, whatever plague or sickness there may be,
29Then whatever prayer or supplication any man or all of Your people Israel shall make--each knowing his own affliction and his own sorrow and stretching out his hands toward this house--
30Then hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart You know; for You, You only, know men's hearts,
31That they may fear You and walk in Your ways as long as they live in the land which You gave to our fathers.
32Also concerning the stranger who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a far country for Your great name's sake and Your mighty power and Your outstretched arm--if he comes and prays toward this house,
33Hear from heaven, from Your dwelling place, and do all for which the stranger calls to You, that all peoples of the earth may know Your name and fear You [reverently and worshipfully], as do Your people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by Your Name.
34If Your people go out to war against their enemies by the way that You send them, and they pray to You facing this city [Jerusalem] which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your Name,
35Then hear from heaven their prayer and supplication, and maintain their cause.
36If they sin against You--for there is no man who does not sin--and You are angry with them and give them to enemies who take them captive to a land far or near;
37Yet if they repent in the land to which they have been carried captive, and turn and pray there, saying, We have sinned, we have done wrong, and have dealt wickedly;
38If they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of their captivity, and pray facing their land which You gave to their fathers and toward the city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your Name;
39Then hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and supplications, and maintain their cause; and forgive Your people, who have sinned against You.
40Now, O my God, I beseech You, let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this temple.
41So now arise, O Lord God, and come into Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength {and} power. Let Your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let Your saints (Your zealous ones) rejoice in good {and} in Your goodness.
42O Lord God, turn not away the face of [me] Your anointed one; [earnestly] remember Your good deeds, mercy, {and} steadfast love for David Your servant.