52. Open your eyes to your servant’s request and to the request of your people Israel. Hear them whenever they cry out to you.
53. You set them apart from all the earth’s peoples as your own inheritance, Lord, just as you promised through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.
54. As soon as Solomon finished praying and making these requests to the Lord, he got up from before the Lord’s altar, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out to heaven.
55. He stood up and blessed the whole Israelite assembly in a loud voice:
56. "May the Lord be blessed! He has given rest to his people Israel just as he promised. He hasn’t neglected any part of the good promise he made through his servant Moses.
57. May the Lord our God be with us, just as he was with our ancestors. May he never leave us or abandon us.
58. May he draw our hearts to him to walk in all his ways and observe his commands, his laws, and his judgments that he gave our ancestors.
59. And may these words of mine that I have cried out before the Lord remain near to the Lord our God day and night so that he may do right by his servant and his people Israel for each day’s need,
60. and so that all the earth’s peoples may know that the Lord is God. There is no other God!
61. Now may you be committed to the Lord our God with all your heart by following his laws and observing his commands, just as you are doing right now."
62. Then the king and all Israel with him sacrificed to the Lord.
63. Solomon offered well-being sacrifices to the Lord: twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred twenty thousand sheep when the king and all Israel dedicated the Lord’s temple.
64. On that day the king made holy the middle of the courtyard in front of the Lord’s temple. He had to offer the entirely burned offerings, grain offerings, and the fat of well-being sacrifices there, because the bronze altar that was in the Lord’s presence was too small to contain the entirely burned offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the well-being sacrifices.