15. For we are strangers and sojourners before You, just as all our fathers were. Our days on earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.
16. O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have prepared to build You a house for Your holy name has come from Your hand, and all belongs to You.
17. I know, my God, that You test the heart, and with uprightness You are pleased, so in the uprightness of my heart I have offered freely all these things, and now I have seen Your people, those present here, offer freely and joyously to You.
18. O Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the thoughts and intentions of the heart of Your people and direct their heart to You.
19. Grant to Solomon my son a whole heart to keep Your commandments, Your testimonies, and Your statutes, to do all these things and to build the palace for which I have made preparation.”
20. Then David said to all the assembly, “Bless now the Lord your God.” So all the assembly blessed the Lord, the God of their fathers. They bowed down and paid homage to the Lord and the king.
21. On the following day, they made sacrifices to the Lord and offered burnt offerings to the Lord: one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, and one thousand lambs, with their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.
22. So they ate and drank before the Lord on that day with great joy.And they made Solomon the son of David king a second time, for they anointed him to the Lord as a ruler and Zadok as a priest.
23. Then Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king instead of David his father, and he prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.
24. All the leaders and the mighty men, and also the sons of King David, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.
25. The Lord highly exalted Solomon in the sight of all Israel and bestowed on him such royal majesty as had never been on any king in Israel before him.