and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name: 008:049 then hear you their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause; 008:050 and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them 008:051 (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron); 008:052 that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you. 008:053 For you did separate 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 Yahweh. 008:054 It was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven. 008:055 He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying, 008:056 Blessed be Yahweh, 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. 008:057 Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us; 008:058 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. 008:059 Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day shall require; 008:060 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God; there is none else. 008:061 Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day. 008:062 The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh. 008:063 Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, two and twenty thousand oxen, and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of Yahweh. 008:064 The same day did the king make the middle of the court holy that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat