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.