10. Then on the twenty-third day of the seventh month Solomon sent the people away to their homes. They were joyful and good of heart because of what the Lord had done for David, Solomon, and His people Israel.
11. Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord and the king’s house. And Solomon successfully accomplished everything that came into his heart to do in the house of the Lord and in his own house.
12. Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night, and He said to Solomon,“I have heard your prayer, and I have chosen for Myself in this place a house of sacrifice.
13. “When I shut up the heaven and there is no rain, or when I command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence on My people,
14. if My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
15. Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer of this place.
16. So now I have chosen and consecrated this house that My name be there continually. My eyes and heart will be there for all days.
17. “And you, if you walk before Me as David your father did to do everything that I command you to do, and you keep My statutes and judgments,