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Now Solomon the son of David strengthened himself over his kingdom, and Yahweh his God was with him and highly exalted him.

Then Solomon said to God, "You have shown great lovingkindness to my father David, and have made me king in his place.

Then Huram king of Tyre said in a letter sent to Solomon: "Because Yahweh loves His people, He has given you to be king over them."

So now, let my lord send to his servants wheat and barley, oil and wine, of which he has spoken.

Then Solomon numbered all the sojourners who were in the land of Israel, following the census which his father David had taken; and 153,600 were found.

Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Then he began to build on the second day in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.

Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of Yahweh was finished. And Solomon brought in the things set apart as holy by his father David, even the silver and the gold and all the utensils, and he put them in the treasuries of the house of God.

in unison when the trumpeters and the singers were to make themselves heard with one voice to praise and to give thanks to Yahweh, and when they lifted up their voice accompanied by trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and when they praised Yahweh saying, "He indeed is good for His lovingkindness endures forever," then the house, the house of Yahweh, was filled with a cloud,

Then the king turned his face around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel was standing.

And he said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my father David and has fulfilled it by His hands, saying,

And Yahweh has established His word which He spoke; and I have been established in place of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Then he stood before the altar of Yahweh before all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.

Now Solomon had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had put it in the midst of the court; and he stood on it, knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven.

Yet have regard to the prayer of Your slave and to his supplication, O Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your slave prays before You;

"If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,

then listen from heaven and act and judge Your slaves, punishing the wicked by bringing his way on his own head and justifying the righteous by bringing him reward according to his righteousness.

whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, who know his own affliction and his own pain, and spread his hands toward this house,

then listen from heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and give to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know, for You alone know the hearts of the sons of men,

And all the sons of Israel, seeing the fire come down and the glory of Yahweh upon the house, bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave praise to Yahweh, saying, "For He is good, for His lovingkindness endures forever."