53. For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord GOD.”
54. It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to the Lord, he arose from before the Lord’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.
55. He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
56. “Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.
57. May the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us;
58. that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.