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8.50 Thee; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them; for they are Thy people, and Thine inheritance, which Thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron; that Thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of Thy servant, and unto the supplication of Thy people Israel, to hearken unto them whensoever they cry unto Thee. For Thou didst set them apart from among all the peoples of the earth, to be Thine inheritance, as Thou didst speak by the hand of Moses Thy servant, when Thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord .'

And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the, he arose from before the altar of the , from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven. And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying: 'Blessed be the, that hath given rest unto His people Israel, according to all that He promised; there hath not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised by the hand of Moses His servant. The our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; let Him not leave us, nor forsake us; that He may incline our hearts unto Him, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments, and His statutes, and His ordinances, which He commanded our fathers. And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the, be nigh unto the our God day and night, that He maintain the cause of His servant, and the cause of His people Israel, as every day shall require; that all the peoples of the earth may know that the , He is God; there is none else. Let your heart therefore be whole with the our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commandments, as at this day.' And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the. And Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he offered unto the, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the. The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the ; for there he offered the burnt-offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings; because the brazen altar that was before the was too little to receive the burnt-offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings.

So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entrance Hamath unto the Brook of Egypt, before the our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days. On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the had shown unto David His servant, and to Israel His people.

And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the, and the king's house, and all Solomon's delight which he was pleased to do, that the appeared to Solomon the second time, as He had appeared unto him at Gibeon. And the said unto him: 'I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou