Solomon Blesses the LORD
(1 Kings 8:12–21)
Then Solomon declared: Exo 20:21Psa 18:8-11Lev 16:21Ki 8:12-50Deu 4:11Heb 12:18Nam 1:3Exo 24:15-18
“The LORD has said that He would dwell
in the thick cloud;
and I have built You an exalted house, 2Ch 2:4-61Ch 17:121Ch 22:10-111Ch 28:201Ch 28:61Ki 8:132Sa 7:13Heb 9:11-12
a place for You to dwell forever.”
And as the whole assembly of Israel stood there, the king turned around and blessed them all 1Ki 8:141Ch 16:21Ki 8:55-612Ch 29:29Jos 22:6Luk 24:50-51Mat 13:2Neh 8:5-7 and said: Mat 24:35Psa 68:32-35Psa 72:18-191Ch 17:121Ch 29:101Ch 29:201Ki 8:15Eph 1:3
“Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has fulfilled with His own hand what He spoke with His mouth to my father David, saying, ‘Since the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over My people Israel. 1Ki 8:161Sa 10:241Sa 13:13-141Sa 15:232Sa 7:15-162Sa 7:6-7Dan 9:19Deu 12:11 But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’ 1Ch 28:4Psa 132:132Ch 12:13Psa 48:1Psa 78:68-701Sa 16:1Isa 14:32Psa 89:19-20
Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 1Ch 17:11Ki 5:31Ch 22:71Ch 28:2-41Ki 8:172Sa 7:2-3 But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart. 1Ki 8:18-212Co 8:12Mrk 14:8 Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’ 1Ch 17:11-121Ch 17:42Sa 7:12-13
Now the LORD has fulfilled the word that He spoke. I have succeeded my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 1Ch 17:111Ch 28:51Ch 29:151Ch 29:231Ki 2:121Ki 3:6-72Ch 1:1Ecc 1:4 And there I have provided a place for the ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with the children of Israel.” 2Ch 5:102Ch 5:71Ki 8:211Ki 8:9Exo 40:20Heb 9:4
Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication
(1 Kings 8:22–53)
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands. Exo 9:33Isa 50:10Job 11:13Psa 143:6Psa 63:41Ki 8:22-531Ti 2:82Ki 11:14 Now Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, 1 and had placed it in the middle of the courtyard. He stood on it, knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven, 1Ki 8:54Neh 8:4Ezr 9:5Psa 95:61Ki 6:361Ki 7:122Ch 4:9Act 20:36 and said: Exo 15:11Deu 7:91Th 2:12Luk 1:54-55Neh 1:5Psa 89:28Psa 89:6Psa 89:8
“O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven or on earth, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts. You have kept Your promise to Your servant, my father David. What You spoke with Your mouth You have fulfilled with Your hand this day. 1Ch 22:9-101Ki 8:242Sa 7:12
Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk in My law as you have walked before Me.’ 1Ki 2:42Ch 7:18Jhn 15:14-15Psa 132:122Sa 7:12-16Psa 119:1Ezk 36:371Ki 6:12 And now, O LORD, God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant David. Jer 11:52Ch 6:142Ch 6:42Sa 7:25-29Exo 24:10Isa 41:17Isa 45:3
But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built. 2Ch 2:6Isa 66:1Psa 139:7-102Ch 32:152Co 12:2Act 17:24Act 7:48-49Psa 113:5-6 Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You. 1Ki 8:28Dan 9:17-19Jhn 17:20Luk 18:1-7Psa 130:2Psa 20:1-3Psa 4:1Psa 5:1-2
May Your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your Name, so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place. Psa 34:152Ch 6:6Dan 6:10Psa 121:5Deu 12:11Deu 26:2Neh 1:61Ki 8:29-30 Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive. Mic 7:18Dan 9:19Isa 43:252Ch 6:392Ch 30:27Psa 130:3-4Ecc 5:2Isa 57:15
When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple, Exo 22:111Ki 8:31-32Lev 5:1Mat 23:18Num 5:19-22Pro 30:9 then may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by rewarding him according to his righteousness. Ezk 18:20Isa 3:10-11Jer 51:56Pro 17:15Rom 2:9-102Ki 9:26Deu 25:1Jer 28:16-17
When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading before You in this temple, Lev 26:171Ki 8:33-342Ki 17:7-18Dan 9:3-19Deu 28:25Deu 28:48Deu 30:1-6Deu 4:29-31 then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to them and their fathers. Jer 33:6-13Exo 6:8Ezr 1:1-6Gen 13:15Jos 21:43Psa 106:40-47
When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them, Deu 11:17Deu 28:23Lev 26:191Ki 17:1-182Ch 33:12-13Amo 4:4-9Ezk 14:13Ezk 18:27-32 then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance. 1Ki 8:35-36Jer 5:24Psa 94:12Zec 10:11Ki 18:40-45Ezk 34:26Hos 2:21-22Isa 30:21
When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come, Jas 5:13Jol 2:25Rev 9:3-11Rut 1:11Ki 8:37-402Ch 12:2-52Ch 20:5-132Ch 32:1 then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple— 2Ch 6:12-13Pro 14:10Psa 142:1-2Psa 32:2-6Psa 33:12-13Psa 50:15Psa 91:15Isa 1:15 be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of men— 1Ch 28:91Sa 16:7Rev 2:23Heb 4:13Mat 16:271Ch 29:171Ki 8:39Ezk 18:30 so that they may fear You and walk in Your ways all the days they live in the land that You gave to our fathers. 1Sa 12:24Act 9:31Exo 20:20Job 28:28Psa 128:1Psa 130:4
And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your great name and Your mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple, Isa 56:3-71Ki 8:41-43Mat 8:10-11Act 10:1-4Eph 2:12-13Jhn 12:20Zec 14:16-17Act 2:10 then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name. 2Ch 7:141Ki 8:161Sa 17:462Ki 19:19Isa 11:10Isa 49:6Isa 54:1-3Jer 10:7
When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to You in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name, 2Ch 20:6-131Ki 8:131Ki 8:44-451Sa 15:181Sa 15:32Ch 14:9-122Ch 18:312Ch 20:4 then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause. Dan 9:17-19Isa 37:21-36Jer 5:28Psa 9:3-4
When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to a land far or near, 1Jn 1:8-10Ecc 7:20Jas 3:2Job 15:14-16Psa 130:3Psa 143:21Ki 8:461Ki 8:50 and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’ Dan 9:5-11Isa 64:6-12Jer 31:18-20Luk 15:17-19Deu 30:1-3Deu 4:29-30Ezr 9:6-7Jer 3:12-14 and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name, 2Ch 33:11-132Ch 6:34Dan 6:10Dan 9:3-4Deu 30:2-6Hos 14:1-4Jer 29:12-14Jol 2:12-13 then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause. May You forgive Your people who sinned against You. 2Ch 6:35Mic 7:18-20Psa 25:18Zec 1:15-16
Now, my God, may Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place. 2Ch 7:15Psa 116:2Neh 1:6Psa 17:1Neh 1:112Ch 16:9Dan 9:16-19Isa 37:17
Now therefore, arise, O LORD God, and enter Your resting place, 1Ch 28:2Isa 61:10Eph 4:22-24Gal 3:27Isa 61:3Isa 61:6Isa 66:1Neh 9:25
You and the ark of Your might.
May Your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation,
and may Your godly ones rejoice in goodness.
O LORD God, do not reject Your anointed one. Isa 55:3Psa 132:11Ki 1:341Ki 2:16Act 13:34Isa 61:1Psa 132:10Psa 2:2
Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David.”