Solomon's Temple Prayer

"For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high… and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven."

"But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!" "If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity… Then hear thou from the heavens."

"Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness. O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant."

"I chose Jerusalem"

2 Chronicles 6:5–6 includes "neither chose I any man… But I have chosen Jerusalem," words missing in the Hebrew of 1 Kings 8:16 but present in its Greek and reported in 4Q54. See the 1 Kings passage page.

Psalm 132

The ending (6:41–42) quotes Psalm 132:8–10 with small changes, replacing the Exodus reference of 1 Kings 8:51–53 with the Davidic promise. See the passage page.

Kneeling

Solomon kneels on a bronze platform; Chronicles adds the platform, perhaps to explain how he could be seen by all.