H9001–/וַ–v

(for Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;)

וַֽיִּתְּנֵהוּ֮ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיַּעֲמֹ֣ד (וַ) va “and”וַיִּבְרַ֤ךְ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּפְרֹ֥שׂ (וַ) va “and”

and he said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven, or on earth; who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;

וַיֹּאמַ֗ר (וַ) va “and”

who have kept with your servant David my father that which you did promise him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.

וַתְּדַבֵּ֥ר (וַ) va. “and”

Yet have you respect to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you;

וּפָנִ֜יתָ (וּ) u. “and”

Listen you to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear from your dwelling-place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.

וְשָׁ֨מַעְתָּ֜ (וְ) ve. “and”וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֖ (וְ) ve. “and”וְסָלָֽחְתָּ׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;

וְנָֽשָׁא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבָ֗א (וּ) u. “and”

then hear from heaven, and do, and judge your servants, requiting the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

וְעָשִׂ֙יתָ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְשָׁפַטְתָּ֣ (וְ) ve. “and”

If your people Israel be struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house;

וְשָׁ֙בוּ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהוֹד֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהִתְפַּֽלְל֧וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהִֽתְחַנְּנ֛וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers.

וְסָ֣לַחְתָּ֔ (וְ) ve. “and”וַהֲשֵׁיבוֹתָם֙ (וַ) va. “and”

When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you do afflict them:

וְהִֽתְפַּלְל֞וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהוֹד֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

וְסָ֨לַחְתָּ֜ (וְ) ve. “and”וְנָתַתָּ֤ה (וְ) ve. “and”

whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall know every man his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house:

וּפָרַ֥שׂ (וּ) u. “and”

then hear from heaven, your dwelling-place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men;)

וְסָ֣לַחְתָּ֔ (וְ) ve. “and”וְנָתַתָּ֤ה (וְ) ve. “and”

Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come from a far country for your great name's sake, and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm; when they shall come and pray toward this house:

וּבָ֣א׀ (וּ) u. “and”וּבָ֥אוּ (וּ) u. “and”וְהִֽתְפַּלְל֖וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, and fear you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.

וְעָשִׂ֕יתָ (וְ) ve. “and”

If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;

וְהִתְפַּֽלְל֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעָשִׂ֖יתָ (וְ) ve. “and”

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

וְאָנַפְתָּ֣ (וְ) ve. “and”וּנְתַתָּ֖ם (וּ) u. “and”וְשָׁב֧וּם (וְ) ve. “and”

yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;

וְהֵשִׁ֙יבוּ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְשָׁ֣בוּ׀ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהִֽתְחַנְּנ֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name:

וְשָׁ֣בוּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהִֽתְפַּֽלְל֗וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling-place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.

וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֨ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעָשִׂ֖יתָ (וְ) ve. “and”וְסָלַחְתָּ֥ (וְ) ve. “and”

Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Yahweh filled the house.

וַתֹּ֥אכַל (וַ) va. “and”

All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and the glory of Yahweh was on the house; and they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, [ergänzt: saying], For he is good; for his loving kindness endures for ever.

וַיִּכְרְעוּ֩ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּֽשְׁתַּֽחֲו֔וּ (וַ) va “and”

King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

וַיִּזְבַּ֞ח (וַ) va “and”וַֽיַּחְנְכוּ֙ (וַֽ) va “and”

Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court holy that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat.

וַיְקַדֵּ֣שׁ (וַ) va “and”