1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. 2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. 3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. 4 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up. 5 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude. 6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims. 7 For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above. 8 And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day. 9 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. 10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD, 11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
12 Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. 13 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever. 14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;) 15 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying, 16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel. 17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel. 18 And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart. 19 Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name. 20 And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel. 21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven: 23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart: 24 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day. 25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me. 26 And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father. 27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded? 28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day: 29 That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place. 30 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.
31 If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house: 32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
33 When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house: 34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto 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 confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: 36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; 38 What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: 39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even 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 unto our fathers. 41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake; 42 (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house; 43 Hear thou in heaven 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, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.
44 If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that 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 that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near; 47 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; 48 And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name: 49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause, 50 And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them: 51 For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron: 52 That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee. 53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.
54 And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. 55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, 56 Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant. 57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us: 58 That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers. 59 And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require: 60 That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else. 61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD. 63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. 64 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings. 65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days. 66 On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.
1 那时， 所罗门把以色列的长老、各支派的首领和以色列的族长， 都召集到耶路撒冷自己面前， 要把耶和华的约柜从大卫城， 就是锡安运上来。
2 于是， 在以他念月， 就是七月， 在守节期的时候， 以色列众人都聚集到所罗门王那里。
3 以色列的众长老都来到了， 祭司们就把约柜抬起来。
4 祭司和利未人把耶和华的约柜、会幕和会幕里的一切圣器具都运上来。
5 所罗门王和聚集到他那里的以色列全体会众， 都一同在约柜前献牛羊为祭， 数目多得不可胜数， 无法计算。
6 祭司把耶和华的约柜抬进内殿为它预备的地方， 就是至圣所， 放在两个基路伯的翅膀底下。
7 因为基路伯展开翅膀在约柜所在地的上面， 遮掩约柜和抬柜的杠。
8 这些杠很长， 在内殿前的圣所可以看见杠头， 在殿外却看不见； 直到今日， 这些杠还在那里。
9 约柜里面只有两块石版， 这两块石版在以色列人出埃及地以后， 耶和华与他们立约的时候， 摩西在何烈山放在那里的。
10 祭司从圣所里出来的时候， 有云彩充满耶和华的殿，
11 因为云彩的缘故， 祭司不能站立服事， 因为耶和华的荣光充满了圣殿。
12 那时， 所罗门说： "耶和华曾说， 他要住在密云中。
13 现在我果然为你建造了一座巍峨的殿， 作你永远的居所。"
14 于是王把脸转过来， 为全体以色列会众祝福， 全体以色列会众都站着。
15 所罗门说： "耶和华以色列的 神是应当称颂的， 因为他亲口对我父亲大卫应许过的， 现在他亲手成全了。他说：
16 ‘自从我把我的子民以色列领出埃及的日子以来， 我未曾在以色列的各支派中拣选一座城， 建造殿宇， 作我名的居所； 但我拣选了大卫治理我的子民以色列。’
17 我父大卫心里有意要为耶和华以色列的 神的名建殿。
18 但耶和华对我父大卫说： ‘你心里有意为我的名建一座殿， 你这心意是好的。
19 然而你不要建造这殿， 只有你亲生的儿子， 他必为我的名建造这殿。’
20 现在耶和华已经实现了他说过的话， 我已经起来继承我父大卫， 坐在以色列的王位上， 正如耶和华所说过的。我也已经为耶和华以色列的 神的名建造了这殿。
21 我又为约柜预备了一个地方。这约柜里有耶和华的约， 就是他领我们列祖出埃及地的时候与他们所立的。"
22 所罗门当着以色列的全体会众， 站在耶和华的祭坛前， 向天伸开双手，
23 祷告说： "耶和华以色列的 神啊， 天上地下没有别的神像你； 你对一心在你面前行事为人的仆人守约施慈爱。
24 你谨守了你应许过你仆人我父大卫的话。你亲口说过， 也亲手作成， 正如今天一样。
25 耶和华以色列的 神啊， 现在求你谨守你应许你仆人我父亲大卫的话： ‘只要你的子孙谨守他们的行为， 像你在我面前所行的一样， 就必不断有人坐以色列的王位。’
26 以色列的 神啊， 现在求你成就你应许你仆人我父大卫的话吧！
27 " 神真的住在地上吗？看哪！ 天和天上的天尚且不能容纳你， 何况我建造的这殿呢？
28 然而耶和华我的 神啊， 求你垂顾你仆人的祷告和恳求， 垂听你仆人今天在你面前所作的呼吁和祷告。
29 愿你的眼睛昼夜看顾这殿， 看顾你所说‘我的名要留在那里’的地方。愿你垂听你仆人向这地方所发的祷告。
30 你仆人和你的子民以色列向这地方祷告的时候， 求你垂听他们的恳求。求你在天上的居所垂听， 垂听而赦免。
31 "如果有人得罪他的邻居被迫起誓， 他来到这殿在你的祭坛前起誓的时候，
32 求你在天上垂听， 采取行动， 审判你的仆人， 定恶人有罪， 使他所行的， 都归到他自己的头上。定义人有理， 照着他的公义赏赐他。
33 "你的子民以色列若是得罪了你， 以致在仇敌面前被打败， 又回转归向你， 承认你的名， 在这殿里向你祷告恳求的时候，
34 求你在天上垂听， 赦免你的子民以色列的罪， 领他们返回你赐给他们列祖之地。
35 "如果他们因为得罪了你， 天就闭塞不下雨； 他们若是向这地方祷告， 承认你的名； 又因你苦待他们， 就离开他们的罪，
36 求你在天上垂听， 赦免你仆人和你的子民以色列的罪， 指示他们当行的善道， 赐雨水在你的地上， 就是你赐给你子民的产业之地。
37 "如果这地有饥荒、瘟疫、旱风、霉烂、蝗虫、蚂蚱， 或有仇敌把他们围困在城里， 无论遭遇什么灾祸， 什么疾病，
38 你的子民以色列， 或是众人， 或是个人， 知道自己心里的苦痛， 向这殿伸开双手所作的一切祷告、一切恳求，
39 求你在天上你的居所垂听而赦免， 并且采取行动。你是知道人心的， 只有你知道万人的心， 求你照着各人所行的报应他，
40 好使他们在你赐给我们列祖的地上， 一生一世敬畏你。
41 "至于不属于你的子民以色列的外族人， 为了你的名的缘故从远地而来，
42 因为他们听到你的大名、大能的手和伸出来的膀臂， 他们来向这殿祷告的时候，
43 求你在天上你的居所垂听， 照着外族人向你呼求的一切而行， 好使地上的万族万民都认识你的名， 敬畏你， 像你的子民以色列一样； 又使他们知道我建造的这殿是称为你的名下的。
44 "如果你的子民出去与仇敌争战， 无论你派他们到哪处， 他们若是向你所拣选的这城， 并向我为你的名建造的这殿祷告，
45 求你在天上垂听他们的祷告和恳求， 为他们主持公道。
46 "如果你的子民得罪了你（没有不犯罪的世人）， 你向他们发怒， 把他们交给仇敌， 以致仇敌把他们掳到仇敌的地方， 或是远或是近，
47 在被掳的地方， 他们若是回心转意， 在他们被掳去之地回转， 向你祈求， 说： ‘我们犯了罪了； 我们犯了过了， 我们作了恶事。’
48 如果他们在俘掳他们的仇敌的地方， 一心一意回转归向你， 又向着你赐给他们列祖的地方， 向你所拣选的这城， 和我为你的名建造的这殿祷告，
49 求你在天上你的居所垂听他们的祷告和恳求， 为他们主持公道。
50 赦免得罪了你的子民， 又赦免他们冒犯你的一切过犯， 使他们在掳他们的人面前蒙怜悯。
51 因为他们是你的子民、你的产业， 是你从埃及、从铁炉中领出来的。
52 愿你睁开眼睛看顾你仆人的祈求， 和你的子民以色列的祈求， 他们向你呼求的， 愿你都垂听。
53 主耶和华啊！ 因为你已经把他们从地上万族万民中分别出来， 作自己的产业， 正如你领我们的列祖出埃及的时候， 借着你的仆人摩西所应许的。"
54 所罗门在耶和华的祭坛前屈膝下跪， 向天伸开双手， 向耶和华献完了这一切祷告和恳求以后， 就起来，
55 站着， 大声给以色列的全体会众祝福， 说：
56 "耶和华是应当称颂的。他照着自己一切所应许的， 赐安息给他的子民以色列人。借着他的仆人摩西所应许一切美好的话， 一句都没有落空。
57 愿耶和华我们的 神与我们同在， 像与我们的列祖同在一样。愿他不离弃我们， 也不撇下我们。
58 愿他使我们的心归向他， 遵行他的一切道， 谨守他吩咐我们列祖的诫命、律例和典章。
59 愿我在耶和华面前恳求的这些话， 昼夜都不离耶和华我们的 神， 好使他天天为他仆人和他的子民以色列人主持公道，
60 使地上万族万民都知道耶和华是 神， 除他以外没有别的神。
61 所以你们的心要完全归给耶和华我们的 神， 遵行他的律例， 谨守他的诫命， 像今天一样。"
62 王和所有与他在一起的以色列人都在耶和华面前献祭。
63 所罗门向耶和华献平安祭， 牛二万二千头， 羊十二万只； 这样， 王和以色列众人为耶和华的殿举行了奉献典礼。
64 那一天， 因为耶和华面前的铜祭坛太小， 容不下燔祭、素祭和平安祭牲的脂肪， 王就把耶和华殿前院子当中的地方分别为圣， 在那里献燔祭、素祭和平安祭牲的脂肪。
65 那时所罗门与从哈马口直到埃及小河的以色列人， 都在耶和华我们的 神面前举行盛大的集会， 守节七天， 又七天， 一共十四天。
66 到了第八天， 王遣散了众人； 众人都祝福过王以后， 就高高兴兴地回自己的家去。他们因为看见耶和华向他仆人大卫和他子民以色列所施的一切恩惠， 心中都感到欢喜。