1 Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and Yehovah’s glory filled the house. 2 The priests could not enter into Yehovah’s house, because Yehovah’s glory filled Yehovah’s house. 3 All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and Yehovah’s glory was on the house. They bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, worshiped, and gave thanks to Yehovah, saying,
“For he is good;
for His kind favor endures to a distant age.”
4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before Yehovah. 5 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle and a hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated God’s house. 6 The priests stood, according to their positions; the Levites also with instruments of music of Yehovah, which David the king had made to give thanks to Yehovah, when David praised by their ministry, saying “For His kind favor endures to a distant age.” The priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.
7 Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court that was before Yehovah’s house holy; for there he offered the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat.
8 So Solomon held the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt.
9 On the eighth day, they held a special gathering; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. 10 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that Yehovah had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
11 Thus Solomon finished Yehovah’s house and the king’s house; and he successfully completed all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in Yehovah’s house and in his own house.
12 Yehovah appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice.
13 “If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among my people; 14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place. 16 For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there until a distant age; and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.
17 “As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my edicts and my judgments; 18 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I contracted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.’
19 But if you turn away, and forsake my edicts and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; 20 then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 21 This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, ‘Why has Yehovah done this to this land and to this house?’ 22 They shall answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and took other gods, worshiped them, and served them. Therefore he has brought all this evil on them.’”