52. Let thine eyes be open unto the supplication of thy slave 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 peoples of the earth, to be thy inheritance, as thou didst speak by the hand of Moses, thy slave, when thou didst bring 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 extended toward heaven.
55. And he stood and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
56. Blessed be the Lord that has given rest unto his people Israel according to all that he had said; not one word has failed of all his good word, which he spoke by the hand of Moses, his slave.
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 rights, which he commanded our fathers.
59. And let these my words, with which I have made supplication before the Lord, be near unto the Lord our God day and night that he maintain the judgment of his slave and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require;
60. that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God, and that there is no other.
61. Let your heart, therefore, be perfect with the Lord our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day.
62. Then the king and all Israel with him, offered sacrifices before the Lord.
63. And Solomon offered sacrifices of peace, which he offered unto the Lord, which were twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.
64. That same day the king sanctified the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord, for there he offered the burnt offerings and the presents and the fat of the peace offerings because the brasen altar that was before the Lord was too small to receive the burnt offerings and the presents 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, for seven days and another seven days, even fourteen days.
66. On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they, blessing the king, went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had done unto David, his slave, and unto Israel his people.