1 Reis 8 - Bíblia Online

Então o rei fez uma convocação para uma grande assembleia, em Jerusalém, de todos os chefes de Israel - cabeças de tribos e de famílias - para assistirem à transferência da arca da aliança do Senhor do tabernáculo, em Sião, a cidade de David, para o templo. Esta celebração ocorreu por ocasião da festa do tabernáculo, no mês de Outubro. 
Durante estas festividades os sacerdotes transportaram a arca para o templo, e ainda todos os recipientes sagrados que tinham estado no tabernáculo. 
O rei Salomão e todo o povo se juntou na frente da arca, sacrificando um sem número de cordeiros e de bois. 
Os sacerdotes pegaram na arca e levaram-na para o interior do templo para o lugar santíssimo, colocando-a debaixo das asas dos querubins. Estes tinham sido construídos de tal forma que as asas se abriam sobre o lugar em que a arca se encontrava; dessa forma as asas faziam sombra sobre a arca e sobre os varais para o transportar. Estes eram tão compridos que ultrapassavam os anjos e podiam ser vistos da sala anterior, embora não se vissem do pátio exterior; ali ficaram até ao dia de hoje. Nessa altura nada havia na arca além das duas tábuas da lei que Moisés pôs lá dentro, quando no Monte Horebe o Senhor fez a aliança com o povo de Israel ao sair do Egipto. 
Quando os sacerdotes sairam do santuário interior uma nuvem luminosa saiu do templo! Os sacerdotes não podiam cumprir o seu serviço porque a glória do Senhor enchia o santuário todo! 
O rei Salomão fez o seguinte discurso: O Senhor disse que habitaria nas trevas; Mas, ó Senhor, eu edifiquei-te uma morada aqui na terra, um lugar para viveres para sempre. 
Depois, o monarca virou-se para o povo, que se mantinha de pé, e abençoou-o. 
Bendito seja o Senhor Deus de Israel,que fez hoje o que prometeu ao meu pai David,visto que lhe disse: 'Quando trouxe o meu povo do Egipto,não indiquei nenhum lugar para edificação do meu templo,mas nomeei um homem que fosse o líder do meu povo.'Este foi o meu pai David. 
Ele quis construir um templo para o Senhor Deus de Israel, mas o Senhor disse-lhe que não. 'Estou satisfeito que queiras fazê-lo, mas é o teu filho quem realizará tal coisa.' 
Agora o Senhor cumpriu com o que prometeu, porque sucedi ao meu pai, como rei em Israel e agora este templo foi construído para o Senhor Deus de Israel. Preparei um lugar no templo para a arca, que contém a aliança que o Senhor fez com os nossos pais, quando os tirou da terra do Egipto. 
Seguidamente Salomão, sempre na frente de todo o povo, pôs-se diante do altar do Senhor, com as mãos estendidas para os céus, e disse: Senhor Deus de Israel, não há outro deus como tu, no céu nem na Terra, tu és misericordioso e bom, e cumpres as promessas que fazes aos teus filhos se eles fizerem de todo o seu coração a tua vontade. Neste dia cumpriste a promessa que fizeste ao meu pai David, que era o teu servo; e agora, ó Senhor Deus de Israel, cumpre igualmente o resto da tua promessa: de que se os seus descendentes andassem nos teus caminhos e se esforçassem por cumprir a tua vontade, tal como ele fez, um deles estaria sempre no trono de Israel. Sim, ó Deus de Israel, cumpre esta promessa também. 
Mas será realmente possível que Deus viva na Terra? Como é que isso pode ser se nem os céus, os mais altos céus, podem contê-lo? Portanto, muito menos este templo que mandei construir! Mesmo assim, ó Senhor meu Deus, tu ouviste e respondeste ao meu pedido eço-te que noite e dia veles sobre este templo - este lugar em que prometeste que viverias - e quando me virar para o templo e orar, seja de dia ou de noite, ouve-me e responde-me. Ouve qualquer súplica que o povo de Israel te dirigir, sempre que se virarem para este lugar para orarem; sim, ouve, desde os céus, onde vives; e quando ouvires, perdoa. 
Se alguém for acusado de ter praticado qualquer maldade, e se se puser aqui diante do teu altar jurando que não a praticou, ouve-o desde os céus e exerce a tua justiça; julga-o conforme tiver ou não praticado o mal. 
Quando o teu povo pecar e os seus inimigos o derrotarem, ouve-os desde os céus e perdoa-lhes, se eles se arrependerem, se voltarem para ti e confessarem que és o seu Deus. Trá-los de novo a esta terra que deste aos seus pais. 
Quando os céus se fecharem e não houver chuva, por eles terem pecado, ouve-os dos céus e perdoa-lhes quando orarem virados para este lugar, e confessarem o teu nome. Depois de os teres castigado, ajuda-os a seguirem caminhos rectos, nos quais deverão sempre andar, e envia-lhes chuva sobre a terra que deste ao teu povo. 
Se houver fome provocada por doenças nas plantas, por pragas de insectos ou outros bichos nocivos, se os inimigos de Israel atacarem as suas cidades, se o povo for ferido por alguma praga ou epidemia, ou por outra coisa qualquer, nessa altura, quando o povo se converter dos seus pecados e orar, voltado para este templo, ouve-os então desde os céus, perdoa-lhes e responde a todos os que tiverem sido sinceros na sua confissão; porque tu conheces o coração de cada pessoa. Desta maneira aprenderão a reverenciar-te sempre, enquanto viverem nesta terra que deste aos seus pais. 
Quando estrangeiros ouvirem falar no teu grande nome e vierem de terras distantes para te adorar, atraídos pelo prestígio glorioso que tem o teu nome, e pela grandeza dos teus milagres, se orarem voltados para este templo, ouve-os desde os céus e responde às suas orações. Todas as nações da Terra te conhecerão e temerão o teu nome, tal como o teu próprio povo de Israel; toda a Terra saberá que este é o teu templo. 
Quando enviares o teu povo lutar contra os seus inimigos e eles orarem a ti, olhando na direcção da cidade que escolheste - Jerusalém - e na deste templo que fiz construir para honra do teu nome, ouve as suas orações e socorre-os. 
Quando pecarem contra ti - e não há ninguém que não peque - se a tua ira se acender contra eles permitindo que os seus inimigos os levem como cativos para alguma terra estrangeira, longe ou mesmo perto, se reconsiderarem nos seus corações e se converterem, suplicando-te dizendo: 'Pecámos; agimos perversamente 
Que os teus olhos estejam atentos e os teus ouvidos abertos perante os seus clamores. Ó Senhor, escuta e responde quando te invocarem, pois que quando tiraste os nossos pais da terra do Egipto, disseste ao teu servo Moisés que escolheras Israel de entre todas as nações da Terra, para serem o teu povo eleito. 
Salomão tinha-se mantido de joelhos e com as mãos estendidas para o céu. Ao terminar esta oração, levantou-se de diante do altar de Jeová e lançou, em voz bem alta, esta bênção sobre o povo de Israel: 
Bendito seja o Senhor que cumpriu a sua promessa de dar repouso ao povo de Israel, não falhou nem uma palavra de todas as maravilhosas promessas transmitidas através do seu servo Moisés. Que o Senhor nosso Deus seja connosco tal como foi com os nossos pais ue nunca nos desampare. Que nos dê vontade para cumprir toda a sua vontade e obedecer a todos os seus mandamentos e a todas as instruções que deu aos nossos antepassados. Que as palavras da minha oração lhe sejam sempre presentes, dia e noite, para que me possa amparar, assim como a todo o Israel, de acordo com as nossas necessidades diárias. Que toda a gente em todo o mundo fique sabendo que o Senhor é Deus, e que não há outro. Ó meu povo, que possas viver com rectidão e honestidade perante o Senhor nosso Deus, e obedecer às suas leis e mandamentos, tal como hoje está a acontecer. 
O rei e todo o povo consagraram o templo, oferecendo sacrifícios de paz ao Senhor, num total de vinte duas mil vacas e cento e vinte mil ovelhas. Como medida temporária o monarca santificou o pátio em frente do templo, para ali fazer os sacrifícios de holocaustos, as ofertas de cereais, e apresentar a gordura das ofertas de paz, visto que o altar de bronze era demasiado pequeno para tantos sacrifícios. 
Toda aquela celebração durou catorze dias e veio ali uma grande multidão de uma extremidade à outra da terra. No fim de tudo, Salomão despediu a gente, que regressou a casa, feliz por toda a bondade que o Senhor tinha demonstrado para com o seu servo David e o seu povo de Israel. E a população abençoou o rei. 

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the sons of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion. 
And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to King Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. 
And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. 
And they brought up the ark of Yahweh, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these the priests and the Levites brought up. 
And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude. 
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim. 
For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above. 
And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there they are to this day. 
There was nothing in the ark but the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, by which Yahweh made a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. 
And it came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh, 
so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh. 
Then Solomon spoke, Yahweh has said that he would stay in the thick darkness. 
I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever. 
And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood. 
And he said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying, 
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 a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel. 
Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 
But Yahweh said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart: 
nevertheless you will not build the house; but your son who will come forth out of your loins, he will build the house for my name. 
And Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I rose up in the place of David my father, and sat on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 
And I have set a place there for the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. 
And Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven; 
and he said, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving-kindness with your slaves, that walk before you with all their heart; 
who kept with your slave David my father that which you promised him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day. 
Now therefore, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your slave David my father that which you have promised him, saying, There will not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me. 
Now therefore, O God of Israel, let your word, I pray you, be verified, which you spoke to your slave David my father. 
But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Look, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built! 
Yet you have respect 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 this day; 
that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, My name will be there; to listen to the prayer which your slave will pray toward this place. 
And you will listen to the supplication of your slave, and of your people Israel, when they will pray toward this place: yes, hear in heaven your dwelling-place; and when you hear, forgive. 
If a man sins against his fellow man, and he is subjected to an oath to cause him to swear, and he comes [and] swears before your altar in this house; 
then you will hear in heaven, and do, and judge your slaves, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. 
When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and plead for mercy to you in this house: 
then you will hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers. 
When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them: 
then you will hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your slaves, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance. 
If there is in the land famine, if there is pestilence, if there is blasting [or] mildew, locust [or] caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the gates of their land; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is; 
whatever prayer and supplication is made by all of man, by all your people Israel, who will know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: 
then you will hear in heaven your dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the sons of man; 
that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers. 
Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he will come out of a far country for your name's sake 
(for they will hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he will come and pray toward this house; 
you will hear in heaven your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as [do] your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name. 
If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you will send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name; 
then you will hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. 
If they sin against you, for there is none among man who does not sin, and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near; 
yet if they will bethink themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and plead to you for mercy in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly; 
if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name: 
then you will hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven your dwelling-place, and maintain their cause; 
and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them 
(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron); 
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 cry to you. 
For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your slave, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Sovereign Yahweh. 
And it was so, that, when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven. 
And he stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying, 
Blessed be Yahweh, that 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 promised by Moses his slave. 
Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us; 
that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers. 
And let these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, to maintain the cause of his slave, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day will require; 
that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God; there is no other. 
Let your{+} heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day. 
And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh. 
And Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of Yahweh. 
The same day the king hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt-offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt-offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings. 
So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days. 
On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his slave, and to Israel his people. 

1 Reis 9

Então o rei fez uma convocação para uma grande assembleia, em Jerusalém, de todos os chefes de Israel - cabeças de tribos e de famílias - para assistirem à transferência da arca da aliança do Senhor do tabernáculo, em Sião, a cidade de David, para o templo. Esta celebração ocorreu por ocasião da festa do tabernáculo, no mês de Outubro. 
Durante estas festividades os sacerdotes transportaram a arca para o templo, e ainda todos os recipientes sagrados que tinham estado no tabernáculo. 
O rei Salomão e todo o povo se juntou na frente da arca, sacrificando um sem número de cordeiros e de bois. 
Os sacerdotes pegaram na arca e levaram-na para o interior do templo para o lugar santíssimo, colocando-a debaixo das asas dos querubins. Estes tinham sido construídos de tal forma que as asas se abriam sobre o lugar em que a arca se encontrava; dessa forma as asas faziam sombra sobre a arca e sobre os varais para o transportar. Estes eram tão compridos que ultrapassavam os anjos e podiam ser vistos da sala anterior, embora não se vissem do pátio exterior; ali ficaram até ao dia de hoje. Nessa altura nada havia na arca além das duas tábuas da lei que Moisés pôs lá dentro, quando no Monte Horebe o Senhor fez a aliança com o povo de Israel ao sair do Egipto. 
Quando os sacerdotes sairam do santuário interior uma nuvem luminosa saiu do templo! Os sacerdotes não podiam cumprir o seu serviço porque a glória do Senhor enchia o santuário todo! 
O rei Salomão fez o seguinte discurso: O Senhor disse que habitaria nas trevas; Mas, ó Senhor, eu edifiquei-te uma morada aqui na terra, um lugar para viveres para sempre. 
Depois, o monarca virou-se para o povo, que se mantinha de pé, e abençoou-o. 
Bendito seja o Senhor Deus de Israel,que fez hoje o que prometeu ao meu pai David,visto que lhe disse: 'Quando trouxe o meu povo do Egipto,não indiquei nenhum lugar para edificação do meu templo,mas nomeei um homem que fosse o líder do meu povo.'Este foi o meu pai David. 
Ele quis construir um templo para o Senhor Deus de Israel, mas o Senhor disse-lhe que não. 'Estou satisfeito que queiras fazê-lo, mas é o teu filho quem realizará tal coisa.' 
Agora o Senhor cumpriu com o que prometeu, porque sucedi ao meu pai, como rei em Israel e agora este templo foi construído para o Senhor Deus de Israel. Preparei um lugar no templo para a arca, que contém a aliança que o Senhor fez com os nossos pais, quando os tirou da terra do Egipto. 
Seguidamente Salomão, sempre na frente de todo o povo, pôs-se diante do altar do Senhor, com as mãos estendidas para os céus, e disse: Senhor Deus de Israel, não há outro deus como tu, no céu nem na Terra, tu és misericordioso e bom, e cumpres as promessas que fazes aos teus filhos se eles fizerem de todo o seu coração a tua vontade. Neste dia cumpriste a promessa que fizeste ao meu pai David, que era o teu servo; e agora, ó Senhor Deus de Israel, cumpre igualmente o resto da tua promessa: de que se os seus descendentes andassem nos teus caminhos e se esforçassem por cumprir a tua vontade, tal como ele fez, um deles estaria sempre no trono de Israel. Sim, ó Deus de Israel, cumpre esta promessa também. 
Mas será realmente possível que Deus viva na Terra? Como é que isso pode ser se nem os céus, os mais altos céus, podem contê-lo? Portanto, muito menos este templo que mandei construir! Mesmo assim, ó Senhor meu Deus, tu ouviste e respondeste ao meu pedido eço-te que noite e dia veles sobre este templo - este lugar em que prometeste que viverias - e quando me virar para o templo e orar, seja de dia ou de noite, ouve-me e responde-me. Ouve qualquer súplica que o povo de Israel te dirigir, sempre que se virarem para este lugar para orarem; sim, ouve, desde os céus, onde vives; e quando ouvires, perdoa. 
Se alguém for acusado de ter praticado qualquer maldade, e se se puser aqui diante do teu altar jurando que não a praticou, ouve-o desde os céus e exerce a tua justiça; julga-o conforme tiver ou não praticado o mal. 
Quando o teu povo pecar e os seus inimigos o derrotarem, ouve-os desde os céus e perdoa-lhes, se eles se arrependerem, se voltarem para ti e confessarem que és o seu Deus. Trá-los de novo a esta terra que deste aos seus pais. 
Quando os céus se fecharem e não houver chuva, por eles terem pecado, ouve-os dos céus e perdoa-lhes quando orarem virados para este lugar, e confessarem o teu nome. Depois de os teres castigado, ajuda-os a seguirem caminhos rectos, nos quais deverão sempre andar, e envia-lhes chuva sobre a terra que deste ao teu povo. 
Se houver fome provocada por doenças nas plantas, por pragas de insectos ou outros bichos nocivos, se os inimigos de Israel atacarem as suas cidades, se o povo for ferido por alguma praga ou epidemia, ou por outra coisa qualquer, nessa altura, quando o povo se converter dos seus pecados e orar, voltado para este templo, ouve-os então desde os céus, perdoa-lhes e responde a todos os que tiverem sido sinceros na sua confissão; porque tu conheces o coração de cada pessoa. Desta maneira aprenderão a reverenciar-te sempre, enquanto viverem nesta terra que deste aos seus pais. 
Quando estrangeiros ouvirem falar no teu grande nome e vierem de terras distantes para te adorar, atraídos pelo prestígio glorioso que tem o teu nome, e pela grandeza dos teus milagres, se orarem voltados para este templo, ouve-os desde os céus e responde às suas orações. Todas as nações da Terra te conhecerão e temerão o teu nome, tal como o teu próprio povo de Israel; toda a Terra saberá que este é o teu templo. 
Quando enviares o teu povo lutar contra os seus inimigos e eles orarem a ti, olhando na direcção da cidade que escolheste - Jerusalém - e na deste templo que fiz construir para honra do teu nome, ouve as suas orações e socorre-os. 
Quando pecarem contra ti - e não há ninguém que não peque - se a tua ira se acender contra eles permitindo que os seus inimigos os levem como cativos para alguma terra estrangeira, longe ou mesmo perto, se reconsiderarem nos seus corações e se converterem, suplicando-te dizendo: 'Pecámos; agimos perversamente 
Que os teus olhos estejam atentos e os teus ouvidos abertos perante os seus clamores. Ó Senhor, escuta e responde quando te invocarem, pois que quando tiraste os nossos pais da terra do Egipto, disseste ao teu servo Moisés que escolheras Israel de entre todas as nações da Terra, para serem o teu povo eleito. 
Salomão tinha-se mantido de joelhos e com as mãos estendidas para o céu. Ao terminar esta oração, levantou-se de diante do altar de Jeová e lançou, em voz bem alta, esta bênção sobre o povo de Israel: 
Bendito seja o Senhor que cumpriu a sua promessa de dar repouso ao povo de Israel, não falhou nem uma palavra de todas as maravilhosas promessas transmitidas através do seu servo Moisés. Que o Senhor nosso Deus seja connosco tal como foi com os nossos pais ue nunca nos desampare. Que nos dê vontade para cumprir toda a sua vontade e obedecer a todos os seus mandamentos e a todas as instruções que deu aos nossos antepassados. Que as palavras da minha oração lhe sejam sempre presentes, dia e noite, para que me possa amparar, assim como a todo o Israel, de acordo com as nossas necessidades diárias. Que toda a gente em todo o mundo fique sabendo que o Senhor é Deus, e que não há outro. Ó meu povo, que possas viver com rectidão e honestidade perante o Senhor nosso Deus, e obedecer às suas leis e mandamentos, tal como hoje está a acontecer. 
O rei e todo o povo consagraram o templo, oferecendo sacrifícios de paz ao Senhor, num total de vinte duas mil vacas e cento e vinte mil ovelhas. Como medida temporária o monarca santificou o pátio em frente do templo, para ali fazer os sacrifícios de holocaustos, as ofertas de cereais, e apresentar a gordura das ofertas de paz, visto que o altar de bronze era demasiado pequeno para tantos sacrifícios. 
Toda aquela celebração durou catorze dias e veio ali uma grande multidão de uma extremidade à outra da terra. No fim de tudo, Salomão despediu a gente, que regressou a casa, feliz por toda a bondade que o Senhor tinha demonstrado para com o seu servo David e o seu povo de Israel. E a população abençoou o rei. 

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the sons of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion. 
And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to King Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. 
And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. 
And they brought up the ark of Yahweh, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these the priests and the Levites brought up. 
And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude. 
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim. 
For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above. 
And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there they are to this day. 
There was nothing in the ark but the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, by which Yahweh made a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. 
And it came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh, 
so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh. 
Then Solomon spoke, Yahweh has said that he would stay in the thick darkness. 
I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever. 
And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood. 
And he said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying, 
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 a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel. 
Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 
But Yahweh said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart: 
nevertheless you will not build the house; but your son who will come forth out of your loins, he will build the house for my name. 
And Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I rose up in the place of David my father, and sat on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 
And I have set a place there for the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. 
And Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven; 
and he said, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving-kindness with your slaves, that walk before you with all their heart; 
who kept with your slave David my father that which you promised him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day. 
Now therefore, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your slave David my father that which you have promised him, saying, There will not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me. 
Now therefore, O God of Israel, let your word, I pray you, be verified, which you spoke to your slave David my father. 
But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Look, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built! 
Yet you have respect 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 this day; 
that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, My name will be there; to listen to the prayer which your slave will pray toward this place. 
And you will listen to the supplication of your slave, and of your people Israel, when they will pray toward this place: yes, hear in heaven your dwelling-place; and when you hear, forgive. 
If a man sins against his fellow man, and he is subjected to an oath to cause him to swear, and he comes [and] swears before your altar in this house; 
then you will hear in heaven, and do, and judge your slaves, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. 
When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and plead for mercy to you in this house: 
then you will hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers. 
When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them: 
then you will hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your slaves, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance. 
If there is in the land famine, if there is pestilence, if there is blasting [or] mildew, locust [or] caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the gates of their land; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is; 
whatever prayer and supplication is made by all of man, by all your people Israel, who will know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: 
then you will hear in heaven your dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the sons of man; 
that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers. 
Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he will come out of a far country for your name's sake 
(for they will hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he will come and pray toward this house; 
you will hear in heaven your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as [do] your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name. 
If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you will send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name; 
then you will hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. 
If they sin against you, for there is none among man who does not sin, and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near; 
yet if they will bethink themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and plead to you for mercy in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly; 
if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name: 
then you will hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven your dwelling-place, and maintain their cause; 
and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them 
(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron); 
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 cry to you. 
For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your slave, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Sovereign Yahweh. 
And it was so, that, when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven. 
And he stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying, 
Blessed be Yahweh, that 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 promised by Moses his slave. 
Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us; 
that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers. 
And let these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, to maintain the cause of his slave, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day will require; 
that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God; there is no other. 
Let your{+} heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day. 
And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh. 
And Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of Yahweh. 
The same day the king hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt-offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt-offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings. 
So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days. 
On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his slave, and to Israel his people. 

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