41-42. Foreigners will hear about you and your mighty power, and some of them will come to live among your people Israel. If any of them pray towards this temple,
43. listen from your home in heaven and answer their prayers. Then everyone on earth will worship you, just like your people Israel, and they will know that I have built this temple to honour you.
44. Our Lord, sometimes you will order your people to attack their enemies. Then your people will turn towards this temple I have built for you in your chosen city, and they will pray to you.
45. Answer their prayers from heaven and give them victory.
46. Everyone sins. But when your people sin against you, suppose you get angry enough to let their enemies drag them away to foreign countries.
47-49. Later, they may feel sorry for what they did and ask your forgiveness. Answer them when they pray towards this temple I have built for you in your chosen city, here in this land you gave their ancestors. From your home in heaven, listen to their sincere prayers and do what they ask.
50. Forgive your people no matter how much they have sinned against you. Make the enemies who defeated them be kind to them.
51. Remember, they are the people you chose and rescued from Egypt that was like a blazing fire to them.
52. I am your servant, and the people of Israel belong to you. So listen when any of us pray and cry out for your help.
53. When you brought our ancestors out of Egypt, you told your servant Moses to say to them, “From all people on earth, the Lord God has chosen you to be his very own.”
54. When Solomon finished his prayer at the altar, he was kneeling with his arms lifted towards heaven. He stood up,
55. turned towards the people, blessed them, and said loudly:
56. Praise the Lord! He has kept his promise and given us peace. Every good thing he promised to his servant Moses has happened.
57. The Lord our God was with our ancestors to help them, and I pray that he will be with us and never abandon us.
58. May the Lord help us obey him and follow all the laws and teachings he gave our ancestors.
59. I pray that the Lord our God will remember my prayer day and night. May he help everyone in Israel each day, in whatever way we need it.
60. Then every nation will know that the Lord is the only true God.
61. Obey the Lord our God and follow his commands with all your heart, just as you are doing today.
62-63. Solomon and the people dedicated the temple to the Lord by offering twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep as sacrifices to ask the Lord's blessing.