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1 Kings 8:22-61
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Solomon’s Prayer for Israel

22 Then (A)Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh before all the assembly of Israel and (B)spread out his hands toward heaven. 23 And he said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, (C)there is no god like You in heaven above or upon earth beneath, (D)keeping covenant and lovingkindness to Your slaves who walk before You with all their heart, 24 who have kept with Your [a]servant, my father David, that which You have [b]promised him; indeed, You have [c]promised with Your mouth and have fulfilled it by Your hand as it is this day. 25 So now, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with Your [d]servant David my father that which You have [e]promised him, saying, ‘(E)You shall not have a man cut off from before Me who is to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons keep their way to walk as you have walked before Me.’ 26 So now, O God of Israel, let Your word truly [f]endure (F)which You have spoken to Your [g]servant, my father David.

27 “But will God truly dwell on the earth? Behold, (G)heaven and the [h]highest heaven cannot [i]contain You; how much less this house which I have built! 28 Yet have regard to the (H)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 today; 29 (I)that Your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward (J)the place of which You have said, ‘My name shall be there,’ to listen to the prayer which Your slave shall pray toward this place. 30 (K)And listen to the supplication of Your slave and of Your people Israel, (L)when they pray toward this place; listen in heaven Your dwelling place; listen and (M)forgive.

31 “(N)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, 32 then listen in heaven and act and judge Your slaves, (O)condemning the wicked by [j]bringing his way on his own head and justifying the righteous by [k]bringing him reward according to his righteousness.

33 “(P)When Your people Israel are [l]defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against You, (Q)if they turn to You again and confess Your name and pray and make supplication to You in this house, 34 then listen in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers.

35 “(R)When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain, because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name and turn from their sin when You afflict them, 36 then listen in heaven and forgive the sin of Your slaves and of Your people Israel; (S)indeed, teach them the good way in which they should walk. And (T)give rain on Your land, which You have given to Your people for an inheritance.

37 “(U)If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is scorching wind or mildew, locust or grasshopper, if their enemy besieges them in the land of their [m]cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is, 38 whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, each of whom knows the [n]affliction of his own heart, and spreads his [o]hands toward this house; 39 then listen in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive and act and give to each according to all his ways, (V)whose heart You know, for (W)You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men, 40 that they may [p]fear You all the days that they live upon the face of the land which You have given to our fathers.

41 “Also concerning the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel, if he comes from a far country for Your name’s sake 42 (for they will hear of Your great name (X)and Your strong hand, and of Your outstretched arm); so if he comes and prays toward this house, 43 listen in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, in order (Y)that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name to [q]fear You, as do Your people Israel, and to know that Your name is called upon this house which I have built.

44 “When Your people go out to battle against [r]their enemy, by whatever way You shall send them, and (Z)they pray to Yahweh [s]toward the city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name, 45 then listen in heaven to their prayer and their supplication, and do justice.

46 “When they sin against You (for (AA)there is no man who does not sin) and You are angry with them and give them over to an enemy, so that [t]they take them away captive (AB)to the land of the enemy, far off or near; 47 (AC)and if they cause these things to return to their heart in the land where they have been taken captive, and [u]return and make supplication to You in the land of those who have taken them captive, saying, ‘(AD)We have sinned and have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly’; 48 (AE)and if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and (AF)pray to You toward their land which You have given to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name; 49 then listen in heaven Your dwelling place to their prayer and their supplication, and do justice for them, 50 and forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You, and (AG)give them over as objects of compassion before those who have taken them captive, that they may have compassion on them 51 ((AH)for they are Your people and Your inheritance which You have brought forth from Egypt, (AI)from the midst of the iron furnace), 52 (AJ)that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your slave and to the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they call to You. 53 For You have separated them from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, (AK)as You spoke by the hand of Moses Your [v]servant, when You brought our fathers forth from Egypt, O Lord Yahweh.”

Solomon Blesses Yahweh

54 (AL)Now it happened that when Solomon had [w]finished praying this entire prayer and supplication to Yahweh, (AM)he arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his [x]hands spread toward heaven. 55 And he stood and (AN)blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying:

56 “Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to His people Israel, (AO)according to all that He [y]promised; (AP)not one promise has [z]failed of all His good [aa]promises, which He [ab]promised by the hand of Moses His [ac]servant. 57 May Yahweh our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; (AQ)may He not forsake us or abandon us, 58 that (AR)He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, which He commanded our fathers. 59 And may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that He may do justice for His slave and justice for His people Israel, [ad]as each day requires, 60 so (AS)that all the peoples of the earth may know that (AT)Yahweh is God; there is no one else. 61 (AU)Let your heart therefore be [ae]wholly devoted to Yahweh our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day.”

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Notas al pie

  1. 1 Kings 8:24 Or slave, cf. 8:23; see Foreword, “The Terminology of Slave”
  2. 1 Kings 8:24 Lit spoken to
  3. 1 Kings 8:24 Lit spoken to
  4. 1 Kings 8:25 Or slave, cf. 8:23; see Foreword, “The Terminology of Slave”
  5. 1 Kings 8:25 Lit spoken to
  6. 1 Kings 8:26 Or be true
  7. 1 Kings 8:26 Or slave, cf. 8:23; see Foreword, “The Terminology of Slave”
  8. 1 Kings 8:27 Lit heaven of heavens
  9. 1 Kings 8:27 Or uphold; lit sustain
  10. 1 Kings 8:32 Lit giving
  11. 1 Kings 8:32 Lit giving
  12. 1 Kings 8:33 Lit smitten
  13. 1 Kings 8:37 Lit gates
  14. 1 Kings 8:38 Lit plague
  15. 1 Kings 8:38 Lit palms
  16. 1 Kings 8:40 Or reverence
  17. 1 Kings 8:43 Or reverence
  18. 1 Kings 8:44 Lit his
  19. 1 Kings 8:44 Lit in the way of
  20. 1 Kings 8:46 Lit their captors take them captive
  21. 1 Kings 8:47 Or repent
  22. 1 Kings 8:53 Or slave, cf. 8:52; see Foreword, “The Terminology of Slave”
  23. 1 Kings 8:54 Or completed, cf. 9:1; 2 Chr 7:11; 8:16
  24. 1 Kings 8:54 Lit palms
  25. 1 Kings 8:56 Lit spoke
  26. 1 Kings 8:56 Lit fallen
  27. 1 Kings 8:56 Lit word
  28. 1 Kings 8:56 Lit spoke
  29. 1 Kings 8:56 Or slave, cf. 8:52; see Foreword, “The Terminology of Slave”
  30. 1 Kings 8:59 Lit the thing of a day in its day
  31. 1 Kings 8:61 Lit complete with
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1 Kings 8:22-61
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Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication

22 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven; 23 and said, “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to thy servants who walk before thee with all their heart; 24 who hast kept with thy servant David my father what thou didst declare to him; yea, thou didst speak with thy mouth, and with thy hand hast fulfilled it this day. 25 Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father what thou hast promised him, saying, ‘There shall never fail you a man before me to sit upon the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’ 26 Now therefore, O God of Israel, let thy word be confirmed, which thou hast spoken to thy servant David my father.

27 “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built! 28 Yet have regard to the prayer of thy servant and to his supplication, O Lord my God, hearkening to the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prays before thee this day; 29 that thy eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which thou hast said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that thou mayest hearken to the prayer which thy servant offers toward this place. 30 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant and of thy people Israel, when they pray toward this place; yea, hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place; and when thou hearest, forgive.

31 “If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and comes and swears his oath before thine altar in this house, 32 then hear thou in heaven, and act, and judge thy servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct upon his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

33 “When thy people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against thee, if they turn again to thee, and acknowledge thy name, and pray and make supplication to thee in this house; 34 then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again to the land which thou gavest to their fathers.

35 “When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against thee, if they pray toward this place, and acknowledge thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them, 36 then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, thy people Israel, when thou dost teach them the good way in which they should walk; and grant rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people as an inheritance.

37 “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in any[a] of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is; 38 whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by any man or by all thy people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house; 39 then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and render to each whose heart thou knowest, according to all his ways (for thou, thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men); 40 that they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest to our fathers.

41 “Likewise when a foreigner, who is not of thy people Israel, comes from a far country for thy name’s sake 42 (for they shall hear of thy great name, and thy mighty hand, and of thy outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house, 43 hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to thee; in order that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name and fear thee, as do thy people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

44 “If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way thou shalt send them, and they pray to the Lord toward the city which thou hast chosen and the house which I have built for thy name, 45 then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

46 “If they sin against thee—for there is no man who does not sin—and thou art angry with them, and dost give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near; 47 yet if they lay it to heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to thee in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have acted perversely and wickedly’; 48 if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to thee toward their land, which thou gavest to their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name; 49 then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause 50 and forgive thy people who have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions which they have committed against thee; and grant them compassion in the sight of those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them 51 (for they are thy people, and thy heritage, which thou didst bring out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace). 52 Let thy eyes be open to the supplication of thy servant, and to the supplication of thy people Israel, giving ear to them whenever they call to thee. 53 For thou didst separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be thy heritage, as thou didst declare through Moses, thy servant, when thou didst bring our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.”

Solomon Blesses the Assembly

54 Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and supplication to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, where he had knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven; 55 and he stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying, 56 “Blessed be the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised; not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he uttered by Moses his servant. 57 The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers; may he not leave us or forsake us; 58 that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers. 59 Let these words of mine, wherewith I have made supplication before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires; 60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other. 61 Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the Lord our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day.”

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  1. 1 Kings 8:37 Gk Syr: Heb the land
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