1 When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.2 The priests could not enter the temple of the LORD because the glory of the LORD filled it.3 When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, "He is good; his love endures forever."4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.5 And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep and goats. So the king and all the people dedicated the temple of God.6 The priests took their positions, as did the Levites with the LORD's musical instruments, which King David had made for praising the LORD and which were used when he gave thanks, saying, "His love endures forever." Opposite the Levites, the priests blew their trumpets, and all the Israelites were standing.7 Solomon consecrated the middle part of the courtyard in front of the temple of the LORD, and there he offered burnt offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings, because the bronze altar he had made could not hold the burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the fat portions.8 So Solomon observed the festival at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him —a vast assembly, people from Lebo Hamath to the Wadi of Egypt.9 On the eighth day they held an assembly, for they had celebrated the dedication of the altar for seven days and the festival for seven days more.10 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their homes, joyful and glad in heart for the good things the LORD had done for David and Solomon and for his people Israel.11 When Solomon had finished the temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and had succeeded in carrying out all he had in mind to do in the temple of the LORD and in his own palace,12 the LORD appeared to him at night and said: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices.13 "When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people,14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.16 I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.17 "As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws,18 I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, 'You shall never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.'19 "But if you "turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you "and go off to serve other gods and worship them,20 then I will uproot Israel from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.21 This temple will become a heap of rubble. All "who pass by will be appalled and say, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?'22 People will answer, 'Because they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them —that is why he brought all this disaster on them.'"

1 Cumque complesset Salomon fundens preces, ignis descendit de clo, et devoravit holocausta et victimas : et majestas Domini implevit domum. 2 Nec poterant sacerdotes ingredi templum Domini, eo quod implesset majestas Domini templum Domini. 3 Sed et omnes filii Isral videbant descendentem ignem, et gloriam Domini super domum : et corruentes proni in terram super pavimentum stratum lapide, adoraverunt, et laudaverunt Dominum, quoniam bonus, quoniam in sculum misericordia ejus. 4 Rex autem et omnis populus immolabant victimas coram Domino. 5 Mactavit igitur rex Salomon hostias, boum viginti duo millia, arietum centum viginti millia : et dedicavit domum Dei rex, et universus populus. 6 Sacerdotes autem stabant in officiis suis, et Levit in organis carminum Domini, qu fecit David rex ad laudandum Dominum : Quoniam in ternum misericordia ejus, hymnos David canentes per manus suas : porro sacerdotes canebant tubis ante eos, cunctusque Isral stabat. 7 Sanctificavit quoque Salomon medium atrii ante templum Domini : obtulerat enim ibi holocausta et adipes pacificorum : quia altare neum quod fecerat, non poterat sustinere holocausta et sacrificia et adipes. 8 Fecit ergo Salomon solemnitatem in tempore illo septem diebus, et omnis Isral cum eo, ecclesia magna valde, ab introitu Emath usque ad torrentem gypti. 9 Fecitque die octavo collectam, eo quod dedicasset altare septem diebus, et solemnitatem celebrasset diebus septem. 10 Igitur in die vigesimo tertio mensis septimi, dimisit populos ad tabernacula sua, ltantes atque gaudentes super bono quod fecerat Dominus Davidi, et Salomoni, et Israli populo suo. 11 Complevitque Salomon domum Domini, et domum regis, et omnia qu disposuerat in corde suo ut faceret in domo Domini, et in domo sua, et prosperatus est.12 Apparuit autem ei Dominus nocte, et ait : Audivi orationem tuam, et elegi locum istum mihi in domum sacrificii. 13 Si clausero clum, et pluvia non fluxerit, et mandavero et prcepero locust ut devoret terram, et misero pestilentiam in populum meum : 14 conversus autem populus meus, super quos invocatum est nomen meum, deprecatus me fuerit, et exquisierit faciem meam, et egerit pnitentiam a viis suis pessimis : et ego exaudiam de clo, et propitius ero peccatis eorum, et sanabo terram eorum. 15 Oculi quoque mei erunt aperti, et aures me erect ad orationem ejus, qui in loco isto oraverit. 16 Elegi enim, et sanctificavi locum istum, ut sit nomen meum ibi in sempiternum, et permaneant oculi mei et cor meum ibi cunctis diebus. 17 Tu quoque si ambulaveris coram me, sicut ambulaverit David pater tuus, et feceris juxta omnia qu prcepi tibi, et justitias meas judiciaque servaveris : 18 suscitabo thronum regni tui, sicut pollicitus sum David patri tuo, dicens : Non auferetur de stirpe tua vir qui sit princeps in Isral. 19 Si autem aversi fueritis, et dereliqueritis justitias meas, et prcepta mea qu proposui vobis, et abeuntes servieritis diis alienis, et adoraveritis eos, 20 evellam vos de terra mea quam dedi vobis : et domum hanc, quam sanctificavi nomini meo, projiciam a facie mea, et tradam eam in parabolam, et in exemplum cunctis populis. 21 Et domus ista erit in proverbium universis transeuntibus, et dicent stupentes : Quare fecit Dominus sic terr huic, et domui huic ? 22 Respondebuntque : Quia dereliquerunt Dominum Deum patrum suorum, qui eduxit eos de terra gypti, et apprehenderunt deos alienos, et adoraverunt eos, et coluerunt : idcirco venerunt super eos universa hc mala.