42O YAHWEH GOD MAY NOT YOU TURN AWAY [THE] FACES OF ANOINTED [ONE] YOUR REMEMBER! <TO> [THE] COVENANT LOYALTI<ES> OF DAVID SERVANT YOUR 42O LORD God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David.”
1AND JUST AS FINISHED SOLOMON TO PRAY AND THE FIRE IT CAME DOWN FROM THE HEAVENS AND IT CONSUMED THE BURNT OFFERING AND THE SACRIFICES AND [THE] GLORY OF YAHWEH IT FILLED <OBJ.> THE HOUSE Fire from Heaven (Psalm 136:1–26) 1When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.
2AND NOT THEY WERE ABLE THE PRIESTS TO GO INTO [THE] HOUSE OF YAHWEH FOR IT FILLED [THE] GLORY OF YAHWEH <OBJ.> [THE] HOUSE OF YAHWEH 2The priests were unable to enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled it.
3AND ALL [THE] PEOPLE OF ISRAEL [WERE] SEEING WHEN CAME DOWN THE FIRE AND [THE] GLORY OF YAHWEH [WAS] OVER THE HOUSE AND THEY BOWED DOWN FACE [THE] GROUND TOWARDS ON THE PAVEMENT AND THEY BOWED DOWN AND TO GIVE THANKS TO YAHWEH FOR [HE IS] GOOD FOR [IS] FOR EVER COVENANT LOYALTY HIS 3When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.”
4AND THE KING AND ALL THE PEOPLE [WERE] SACRIFICING SACRIFICE[S] <TO> BEFORE YAHWEH Sacrifices of Dedication (1 Kings 8:62–66) 4Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.
5AND HE SACRIFICED THE KING SOLOMON <OBJ.> [THE] SACRIFICE OF <THE> CATTLE TWENTY AND TWO THOUSAND AND SHEEP ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND AND THEY DEDICATED <OBJ.> [THE] HOUSE OF <THE> GOD THE KING AND ALL THE PEOPLE 5And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
6AND THE PRIESTS ON DUTIES THEIR [WERE] STANDING AND THE LEVITES WITH [THE] INSTRUMENTS OF <THE> SONG OF YAHWEH WHICH HE HAD MADE DAVID THE KING TO GIVE THANKS TO YAHWEH FOR [IS] FOR EVER COVENANT LOYALTY HIS WHEN PRAISED DAVID BY HAND THEIR AND THE PRIESTS [WERE] BLOWING A TRUMPET BEFORE THEM AND ALL ISRAEL [WERE] STANDING 6The priests stood at their posts, as did the Levites with the musical instruments of the LORD, which King David had made for giving thanks to the LORD and with which David had offered praise, saying, “For His loving devotion endures forever.” Across from the Levites, the priests sounded trumpets, and all the Israelites were standing.
7AND HE CONSECRATED SOLOMON <OBJ.> [THE] MIDDLE OF THE COURTYARD WHICH [WAS] <TO> BEFORE [THE] HOUSE OF YAHWEH FOR HE OFFERED THERE THE BURNT OFFERINGS AND <OBJ.> [THE] FAT<S> OF THE PEACE OFFERINGS FOR [THE] ALTAR OF <THE> BRONZE WHICH HE HAD MADE SOLOMON NOT IT WAS ABLE TO CONTAIN <OBJ.> THE BURNT OFFERING AND <OBJ.> THE GRAIN OFFERING AND <OBJ.> THE FAT<S> 7Then Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar he had made could not hold all these offerings.
8AND HE OBSERVED SOLOMON <OBJ.> THE FESTIVAL AT THE TIME <THE> THAT SEVEN DAYS AND ALL ISRAEL [WAS] WITH HIM AN ASSEMBLY GREAT VERY FROM LEBO HAMATH TO [THE] WADI OF EGYPT 8So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him— a very great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt— kept the feast*NoteCloseThat is, the Feast of Tabernacles (or Booths or Shelters); see Leviticus 23:33–36. for seven days.
9AND THEY OBSERVED ON THE DAY <THE> EIGHTH AN ASSEMBLY FOR [THE] DEDICATION OF THE ALTAR THEY HAD OBSERVED SEVEN DAYS AND THE FESTIVAL SEVEN DAYS 9On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar had lasted seven days, and the feast seven days more.
10AND ON DAY TWENTY AND THREE OF THE MONTH <THE> SEVENTH HE SENT AWAY <OBJ.> THE PEOPLE TO TENTS THEIR JOYFUL AND GOOD OF HEART ON THE GOOD WHICH HE HAD DONE YAHWEH FOR DAVID AND FOR SOLOMON AND FOR ISRAEL PEOPLE HIS 10On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the good things that the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel.
11AND HE FINISHED SOLOMON <OBJ.> [THE] HOUSE OF YAHWEH AND <OBJ.> [THE] HOUSE OF THE KING AND <OBJ.> EVERY <THE> [THING WHICH] WAS COMING ON [THE] HEART OF SOLOMON TO DO IN [THE] HOUSE OF YAHWEH AND IN OWN HOUSE HIS HE MADE SUCCESSFUL The LORD’s Response to Solomon (1 Kings 9:1–9) 11When Solomon had finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace, successfully carrying out all that was in his heart to do for the house of the LORD and for his own palace,
12AND HE APPEARED YAHWEH TO SOLOMON IN THE NIGHT AND HE SAID TO HIM I HAVE HEARD <OBJ.> PRAYER YOUR AND I HAVE CHOSEN <IN> THE PLACE <THE> THIS FOR MYSELF FOR A HOUSE OF SACRIFICE 12the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
13HERE! I WILL SHUT UP THE HEAVENS AND NOT IT WILL BE RAIN AND HERE! I WILL COMMAND TO [THE] GRASSHOPPER TO DEVOUR THE LAND AND IF I WILL SEND PESTILENCE AMONG PEOPLE MY 13If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,
14SO THEY MAY HUMBLE THEMSELVES PEOPLE MY WHICH IT HAS BEEN CALLED NAME MY ON THEM SO THEY MAY PRAY AND THEY MAY SEEK FACE MY SO THEY MAY TURN FROM WAYS THEIR <THE> WICKED AND I I WILL HEAR FROM THE HEAVENS SO I MAY FORGIVE <TO> SIN THEIR SO I MAY HEAL <OBJ.> LAND THEIR 14and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
15NOW EYES MY THEY WILL BE OPEN AND EARS MY ATTENTIVE TO [THE] PRAYER OF THE PLACE <THE> THIS 15Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.
16AND NOW I HAVE CHOSEN AND I HAVE CONSECRATED <OBJ.> THE HOUSE <THE> THIS TO BE NAME MY THERE UNTIL PERPETUITY AND THEY WILL BE EYES MY AND HEART MY THERE ALL THE DAYS 16For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
17AND YOU IF YOU WILL WALK <TO> BEFORE ME JUST AS HE WALKED DAVID FATHER YOUR AND TO DO ACCORDING TO ALL THAT I HAVE COMMANDED YOU AND STATUTES MY AND JUDGMENTS MY YOU WILL OBSERVE 17And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,
18AND I WILL ESTABLISH <OBJ.> [THE] THRONE OF KINGDOM YOUR JUST AS I MADE TO DAVID FATHER YOUR <TO> SAYING NOT IT WILL BE CUT OFF TO YOU A MAN [WHO] RULES OVER ISRAEL 18then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with your father David when I said, ‘You will never fail to have a man to rule over Israel.’
19AND IF YOU WILL TURN AWAY! YOU AND YOU WILL FORSAKE STATUTES MY AND COMMANDMENTS MY WHICH I HAVE SET <TO> BEFORE YOU AND YOU WILL GO AND YOU WILL SERVE GODS OTHER AND YOU WILL BOW DOWN TO THEM 19But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
20AND I WILL PLUCK UP THEM FROM ON LAND MY WHICH I HAVE GIVEN TO THEM AND <OBJ.> THE HOUSE <THE> THIS WHICH I HAVE CONSECRATED FOR NAME MY I WILL THROW AWAY FROM ON FACE MY AND I WILL MAKE IT INTO A BYWORD AND INTO A TAUNT AMONG ALL THE PEOPLES 20then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
21AND THE HOUSE <THE> THIS WHICH IT WAS MOST HIGH TO EVERY [ONE WHO] PASSES BY AT IT HE WILL BE APPALLED AND HE WILL SAY <IN> HOW? DID HE DO YAHWEH THUS TO THE LAND <THE> THIS AND TO THE HOUSE <THE> THIS 21And when this temple has become a heap of rubble,*NoteCloseSome LXX manuscripts, Syriac, and Arabic; Hebrew And though this temple is now exalted; see also 1 Kings 9:8. all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
22AND PEOPLE WILL SAY ON THAT THEY FORSOOK <OBJ.> YAHWEH [THE] GOD OF ANCESTORS THEIR WHO HE BROUGHT OUT THEM FROM [THE] LAND OF EGYPT AND THEY TOOK HOLD ON GODS OTHER AND THEY BOWED DOWN TO THEM AND THEY SERVED THEM THERE- -FORE HE HAS BROUGHT ON THEM <OBJ.> ALL THE CALAMITY <THE> THIS 22And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them— because of this, He has brought all this disaster upon them.’”