1Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt-offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Yehovah filled the house. 2And the priests could not enter into the house of Yehovah, because the glory of Yehovah filled Yehovah’s house. 3And all the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and the glory of Yehovah was upon the house; and they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshiped, and gave thanks to Yehovah, saying, For he is good; for his lovingkindness endures for ever. 4Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before Yehovah. 5And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. 6And the priests stood, according to their offices; the Levites also with instruments of music of Yehovah, which David the king had made to give thanks to Yehovah (for his lovingkindness endures for ever), when David praised by their ministry: and the priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood. 7Moreover Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of Yehovah; 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, and the meal-offering, and the fat. 8So Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt. 9And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. 10And 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. 11Thus Solomon finished the house of Yehovah, and the king’s house: and all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in the house of Yehovah, and in his own house, he successfully accomplished. 12And Yehovah appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. 13If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; 14if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 15Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place. 16For now I have chosen and consecrated this house, that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. 17And 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 statutes and my ordinances; 18then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, You shall not lack a man to be ruler in Israel. 19But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and bow down to them; 20then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 21And this house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, Why has Yehovah done thus to this land, and to this house? 22And they shall answer, Because they forsook Yehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and bowed down to them, and served them: therefore he has brought all this evil upon them.