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所罗门为民祝福

那时所罗门说:“耶和华曾说他必住在幽暗之处。 但我已经建造殿宇做你的居所,为你永远的住处。” 王转脸为以色列会众祝福,以色列会众就都站立。

所罗门说:“耶和华以色列的神是应当称颂的!因他亲口向我父大卫所应许的,也亲手成就了。 他说:‘自从我领我民出埃及地以来,我未曾在以色列众支派中选择一城建造殿宇为我名的居所,也未曾拣选一人做我民以色列的君。 但选择耶路撒冷为我名的居所,又拣选大卫治理我民以色列。’” 所罗门说:“我父大卫曾立意要为耶和华以色列神的名建殿, 耶和华却对我父大卫说:‘你立意要为我的名建殿,这意思甚好, 只是你不可建殿,唯你所生的儿子,必为我名建殿。’ 10 现在耶和华成就了他所应许的话,使我接续我父大卫以色列的国位,是照耶和华所说的,又为耶和华以色列神的名建造了殿。 11 我将约柜安置在其中,柜内有耶和华的约,就是他与以色列人所立的约。”

大申祈祷

12 所罗门当着以色列会众,站在耶和华的坛前,举起手来。 13 所罗门曾造一个铜台,长五肘,宽五肘,高三肘,放在院中,就站在台上,当着以色列的会众跪下,向天举手, 14 说:“耶和华以色列的神啊,天上地下,没有神可比你的。你向那尽心行在你面前的仆人守约施慈爱, 15 向你仆人我父大卫所应许的话现在应验了。你亲口应许,亲手成就,正如今日一样。 16 耶和华以色列的神啊,你所应许你仆人我父大卫的话说‘你的子孙若谨慎自己的行为,遵守我的律法,像你在我面前所行的一样,就不断人坐以色列的国位’,现在求你应验这话。 17 耶和华以色列的神啊,求你成就向你仆人大卫所应许的话!

18 “神果真与世人同住在地上吗?看哪,天和天上的天尚且不足你居住的,何况我所建的这殿呢! 19 唯求耶和华我的神垂顾仆人的祷告、祈求,俯听仆人在你面前的祈祷、呼吁。 20 愿你昼夜看顾这殿,就是你应许立为你名的居所;求你垂听仆人向此处祷告的话。 21 你仆人和你民以色列向此处祈祷的时候,求你从天上你的居所垂听,垂听而赦免。

22 “人若得罪邻舍,有人叫他起誓,他来到这殿,在你的坛前起誓, 23 求你从天上垂听,判断你的仆人:定恶人有罪,照他所行的报应在他头上;定义人有理,照他的义赏赐他。

24 “你的民以色列若得罪你,败在仇敌面前,又回心转意,承认你的名,在这殿里向你祈求、祷告, 25 求你从天上垂听,赦免你民以色列的罪,使他们归回你赐给他们和他们列祖之地。

26 “你的民因得罪你,你惩罚他们,使天闭塞不下雨,他们若向此处祷告,承认你的名,离开他们的罪, 27 求你在天上垂听,赦免你仆人和你民以色列的罪,将当行的善道指教他们,且降雨在你的地,就是你赐给你民为业之地。

28 “国中若有饥荒、瘟疫、旱风、霉烂、蝗虫、蚂蚱,或有仇敌犯境围困城邑,无论遭遇什么灾祸疾病, 29 你的民以色列,或是众人,或是一人,自觉灾祸甚苦,向这殿举手,无论祈求什么,祷告什么, 30 求你从天上你的居所垂听赦免。你是知道人心的,要照各人所行的待他们——唯有你知道世人的心—— 31 使他们在你赐给我们列祖之地上一生一世敬畏你,遵行你的道。

32 “论到不属你民以色列的外邦人,为你的大名和大能的手并伸出来的膀臂,从远方而来,向这殿祷告, 33 求你从天上你的居所垂听,照着外邦人所祈求的而行,使天下万民都认识你的名,敬畏你,像你的民以色列一样,又使他们知道我建造的这殿是称为你名下的。

34 “你的民若奉你的差遣,无论往何处去与仇敌争战,向你所选择的城与我为你名所建造的殿祷告, 35 求你从天上垂听他们的祷告、祈求,使他们得胜。

36 “你的民若得罪你——世上没有不犯罪的人——你向他们发怒,将他们交给仇敌,掳到或远或近之地, 37 他们若在掳到之地想起罪来,回心转意,恳求你说‘我们有罪了,我们悖逆了,我们作恶了’, 38 他们若在掳到之地尽心、尽性归服你,又向自己的地,就是你赐给他们列祖之地,和你所选择的城,并我为你名所建造的殿祷告, 39 求你从天上你的居所垂听你民的祷告、祈求,为他们申冤,赦免他们的过犯。

40 “我的神啊,现在求你睁眼看、侧耳听在此处所献的祷告。 41 耶和华神啊,求你起来,和你有能力的约柜同入安息之所。耶和华神啊,愿你的祭司披上救恩,愿你的圣民蒙福欢乐。 42 耶和华神啊,求你不要厌弃你的受膏者,要记念向你仆人大卫所施的慈爱。”

那時,所羅門說:

「耶和華啊,
你曾說你要住在密雲中,
現在我為你建造了殿宇,
作你永遠的居所。」

所羅門為民眾祝福

王轉身為站立在那裡的以色列全體會眾祝福。 他說:「以色列的上帝耶和華當受稱頌!祂親口給我父大衛的應許,祂也親手成就了! 祂曾說,『自從我把我的子民帶出埃及以來,我並沒有在以色列眾支派中選出一座城建造殿宇作為我名所在之地,也沒有選立一人做我以色列子民的君王。 但如今,我揀選了耶路撒冷作為我名所在之地,又揀選了大衛來治理我的以色列子民。』」

所羅門又說:「我父大衛曾想建一座殿來尊崇以色列的上帝耶和華之名, 但耶和華對我父大衛說,『你想為我建殿,這番心意是好的, 但你不要建,要由你的親生兒子為我建殿。』 10 現在耶和華已經成就祂的應許,讓我繼承我父大衛的王位統治以色列,又為以色列的上帝耶和華的名建了殿。 11 我把約櫃安放在裡面,約櫃裡有耶和華與以色列人所立的約。」

所羅門的禱告

12 所羅門當著以色列會眾的面,站在耶和華的壇前,向天伸出雙手禱告。 13 他曾造一個長二點二五米,寬二點二五米,高一點三五米的銅臺,放在院子中間。他站在臺上,當著以色列會眾的面跪下,向天伸出雙手, 14 禱告說:「以色列的上帝耶和華啊,天上地下沒有神明可以與你相比!你向盡心遵行你旨意的僕人守約、施慈愛。 15 你持守給你僕人——我父大衛的應許,你曾親口應許,你今天親手成就了。 16 以色列的上帝耶和華啊,你曾對你僕人——我父大衛說,『若你的子孫像你一樣謹慎行事,遵行我的律法,你的王朝就不會中斷。』求你信守這應許。 17 以色列的上帝耶和華啊,求你實現你給你僕人大衛的應許。

18 「然而,上帝啊,你真的會住在人間嗎?看啊,諸天尚且不夠你居住,更何況我建造的這殿呢? 19 可是,我的上帝耶和華啊,求你垂顧你僕人的禱告和祈求,垂聽你僕人在你面前的呼求和禱告。 20 願你晝夜看顧這殿——你應許立你名的地方!你僕人向著這地方禱告的時候,求你垂聽。 21 你僕人和你的以色列子民向這地方祈禱的時候,求你從你天上的居所垂聽,赦免我們的罪。

22 「如果有人得罪鄰舍,被叫到這殿中,在你的壇前起誓, 23 求你從天上垂聽,在你眾僕人當中施行審判,按他們的行為罰惡賞善。

24 「當你的以色列子民因得罪你而敗在敵人手中時,如果他們回心轉意歸向你,承認你的名,在這殿裡祈禱, 25 求你從天上垂聽,赦免他們的罪,帶領他們回到你賜給他們和他們祖先的土地上。

26 「當你的子民得罪你,你懲罰他們,使天不降雨時,如果他們向著這地方禱告,承認你的名,並離開罪惡, 27 求你在天上垂聽,赦免你僕人——你以色列子民的罪,教導他們走正道,降下甘霖滋潤你賜給你子民作產業的土地。

28 「如果國中有饑荒、瘟疫、旱災、黴病、蝗災、蟲災,或是城邑被敵人圍困,無論遭遇什麼災禍疾病, 29 只要你的以色列子民,或個人或全體,自知心中痛苦並向著這殿伸手禱告,無論祈求什麼, 30 求你從天上的居所垂聽,赦免他們。唯獨你能洞察人心,你必按各人的行為施行賞罰, 31 使你的子民在你賜給我們祖先的土地上終生敬畏你,遵行你的道。

32 「如果有遠方的外族人聽說你的大能大力,慕名而來,向著這殿禱告, 33 求你從天上的居所垂聽,應允他們的祈求,好叫天下萬民都像你的以色列子民一樣認識你的名、敬畏你,並知道我建造的這殿屬於你的名下。

34 「你的子民奉你的命令上陣與敵人作戰,無論他們在哪裡,如果他們向著你選擇的這城和我為你建造的這殿禱告, 35 求你從天上垂聽,使他們得勝。

36 「世上沒有不犯罪的人,如果你的子民得罪你,以致你向他們發怒,讓敵人把他們擄走,不論遠近, 37 若他們在那裡回心轉意,向你懇求,承認自己犯罪作惡了; 38 若他們全心全意地歸向你,朝著你賜給他們祖先的這片土地、你選擇的這城和我為你建的這殿向你禱告, 39 求你從你天上的居所垂聽他們的祈求,為他們伸張正義,赦免得罪你的子民。

40 「我的上帝啊,
求你睜眼看、側耳聽在這殿裡獻上的禱告。
41 耶和華上帝啊,
願你起來與你大能的約櫃一同進入你的安息之所!
耶和華上帝啊,
願你的祭司披上救恩,
願你的聖民蒙福歡樂!
42 耶和華上帝啊,
求你不要厭棄你所膏立的人,
顧念你曾應許以慈愛待你的僕人大衛。」

Then said Solomon, The Lord hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.

And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.

And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying,

Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:

But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

But the Lord said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:

Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

10 The Lord therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

11 And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord, that he made with the children of Israel.

12 And he stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:

13 For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven.

14 And said, O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:

15 Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.

16 Now therefore, O Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.

17 Now then, O Lord God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.

18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!

19 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:

20 That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.

21 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.

22 If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;

23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

24 And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;

25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.

26 When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;

27 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.

28 If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:

29 Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:

30 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)

31 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

32 Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;

33 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

34 If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;

35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

36 If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;

37 Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;

38 If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:

39 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.

40 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.

41 Now therefore arise, O Lord God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.

42 O Lord God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.