48. if they return to you with all of their heart and with all of their soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive and they pray to you toward their land which you gave to their ancestors, the city that you have chosen and the house that you built for your name,
49. then you shall hear in heaven, the place of your dwelling, their prayer and their plea, and you shall vindicate them.
50. You shall forgive your people who sinned against you, even for all their transgressions which they committed against you. You shall give them compassion before their captors so that they may have compassion on them,
51. for they are your people and your inheritance whom you brought from Egypt from the middle of the smelter of iron.
52. O, that your eyes may be open to the plea of your servant and to the plea of your people Israel, to listen to them in all things when they call to you.
53. For you have separated them for yourself as an inheritance from all the peoples of the earth, as you promised through the hand of Moses your servant when you brought out our ancestors from Egypt, my Lord Yahweh!”
54. It happened that when Solomon finished praying to Yahweh all of the prayer and this plea, he got up from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling down on his knees with his palms outstretched to heaven.
55. He stood and blessed all of the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
56. “Blessed be Yahweh who gave a resting place to his people Israel. According to all that he promised, not one word has fallen from all of his promises concerning the good which he spoke through the hand of Moses his servant.
57. May Yahweh our God be with us as he was with our ancestors, and may he not leave us or abandon us,
58. to incline our hearts toward him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his judgments which he commanded our ancestors.
59. Let these my words which I pleaded before Yahweh be near to Yahweh our God, by day and by night, to maintain the justice of his servant and the justice of his people Israel as each day requires
60. so that all of the people of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God; there is none other.
61. Let your heart be completely with Yahweh our God by walking in his statutes, by keeping his commands as this day.”
62. Then the king and all of Israel with him offered a sacrifice in the presence of Yahweh.
63. Solomon sacrificed the fellowship offerings which he offered to Yahweh: twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep; and the king and all of the Israelites dedicated the house of Yahweh.