2nd Dabar-Hayamym (2 Chronicles) — 6

Shalumah’s Speech upon Completion of the Work 

1 Then Shalumah spoke: “𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH  said He would dwell in the dark cloud.

2 I have surely built You an exalted house, and a place for You to dwell in forever.”

3 Then the king turned around and Baraked the whole assembly of Yashar'AL, while all the assembly of Yashar'AL was standing. 

4 And Shalumah said: “baraked be  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH the 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH of Yashar'AL, who has fulfilled with His hands what He spoke with His mouth to my father Daud, saying, 

5 ‘Since the day that I brought My people out of the land of Mitzraym, I have chosen no city from any tribe of Yashar'AL in which to build a house, that My Name might be there, nor did I choose any man to be a ruler over My people Yashar'AL. 

6 Yet I have chosen Yahushalam, that My Name may be there, and I have chosen Daud to be leader over My people Yashar'AL.’ 

7 Now it was in the heart of my father Daud to build a temple for the Name of  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH the 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH of Yashar'AL. 

8 But 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar to my father Daud, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a temple for My name, you did well in that it was in your heart. 

9 Nevertheless you shall not build the temple, but your son who will come from your body, he shall build the temple for My Name.’ 

10 So 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH has fulfilled His word which He spoke, and I have filled the position of my father Daud, and sit on the throne of Yashar'AL, as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH promised; and I have built the temple for the Name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH the 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH of Yashar'AL. 

11 And there I have put the ark, in which is the covenant of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH which He made with the children of Yashar'AL.”

Shalumah’s Prayer of Dedication

12 Then Shalumah stood before the altar of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH in the presence of all the assembly of Yashar'AL, and spread out his hands 

13 (for Shalumah had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and he stood on it, knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Yashar'AL, and spread out his hands toward Shamaym); 

14 and he said: “𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH the only  𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH of Yashar'AL, there is no 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH in Shamaym or on Arath like You, who keep Your covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts. 

15 You have kept what You promised Your servant Daud my father; You have both spoken with Your mouth and fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day. 

16 Therefore, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH of Yashar'AL, now keep what You promised Your servant Daud my father, saying, ‘You shall not fail to have a man sit before Me on the throne of Yashar'AL, only if your sons take heed to their way, that they walk in My Turah (law) as you have walked before Me.’ 

17 And now, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH  of Yashar'AL, let Your word come true, which You have spoken to Your servant Daud.

18 “But will 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH indeed dwell with men on the Arath? Behold, Shamaym and the Shamaym of Shamaym cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built! 

19 Yet regard the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH my  𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH, and listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You: 

20 that Your eyes may be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your Name, that You may hear the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place. 

21 And may You hear the supplications of Your servant and of Your people Yashar'AL, when they pray toward this place. Hear from Shamaym Your dwelling place, and when You hear, forgive.

22 “If anyone sins against his neighbor, and is forced to take an oath, and comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this temple, 

23 then hear from Shamaym, and act, and judge Your servants, bringing retribution on the wicked by bringing his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness.

24 “Or if Your people Yashar'AL are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and return and confess Your Name, and pray and make supplication before You in this temple, 

25 then hear from Shamaym and forgive the sin of Your people Yashar'AL, and bring them back to the land which You gave to them and their fathers.

26 “When the Shamaym are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your Name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them, 

27 then hear in Shamaym, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Yashar'AL, that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance.

28 “When there is famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is; 

29 whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Yashar'AL, when each one knows his own burden and his own grief, and spreads out his hands to this temple: 

30 then hear from Shamaym Your dwelling place, and forgive, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone know the hearts of the sons of men), 

31 that they may fear You, to walk in Your ways as long as they live in the land which You gave to our fathers.

32 “Moreover, concerning a foreigner, who is not of Your people Yashar'AL, but has come from a far country for the sake of Your great Name and Your mighty hand and Your outstretched arm, when they come and pray in this temple; 

33 then hear from Shamaym Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, that all peoples of the Arath may know Your Name and fear You, as do Your people Yashar'AL, and that they may know that this temple which I have built is called by Your Name.

34 “When Your people go out to battle against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to You toward this city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name, 

35 then hear from Shamaym their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

36 “When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin), and You become angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, and they take them captive to a land far or near; 

37 yet when they come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to You in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have done wrong, and have committed wickedness’; 

38 and when they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been carried captive, and pray toward their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and toward the temple which I have built for Your Name: 

39 then hear from Shamaym Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive Your people who have sinned against You. 

40 Now, my 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH, I pray, let Your eyes be open and let Your ears be attentive to the prayer made in this place.

41 “Now therefore, Arise O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH  my 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH, to Your resting place,You and the Ark of Your strength. Let Your Kuhanym, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH my 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH, be clothed with salvation, And let Your saints rejoice in goodness.

42 “O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH my 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH, do not turn away the face of Your Anointed; Remember the mercies of Your servant Daud.