6. The priests stood at their positions, with the Levites and all their instruments of music for the Lord that King David had made to praise the Lord—for His mercy endures forever—when David gave praise by their ministry, and the priests sounded trumpets opposite the Levites, and all Israel stood.
7. And Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was in front of the house of the Lord because there he made burnt offerings and the fat of peace offerings (because the bronze altar that Solomon made was surely not able to contain the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and fat offerings).
8. And at the appointed time, Solomon made a feast for seven days, and all Israel—as a very great assembly—was with him, from the entrance of Lebo Hamath in the north to the Brook of Egypt in the south.
9. Then on the eighth day they made a solemn assembly because they had made a consecration of the altar for seven days and then the feast for seven days more.
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,
18. then I will set the throne of your kingdom as I made a covenant with David your father saying, ‘You will not lack a man to rule Israel.’
19. “But if the people turn aside and abandon My statutes and commandments that I have given to you, and you walk after and serve other gods and worship them,