1 When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. 2 The priests could not enter into the temple of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD filled the LORD's house. 3 All the Israelites looked on, when the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD was on the temple; and they bowed with their faces down to the pavement and worshipped. They gave thanks to the LORD, saying, "For he is good; for his loyal love endures forever." 4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD. 5 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen, and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the temple of God. 6 The priests stood at their posts; the Levites also with musical instruments dedicated to the LORD, which David the king had made to give thanks to the LORD, for his loyal love endures forever. The priests sounded trumpets opposite the Levites, and all Israel stood. 7 Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was in front of the temple of the LORD; for there he offered the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to hold the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and the fat. 8 So Solomon celebrated the festival for seven days, and all Israel with him. It was a very great assembly, from Lebo-Hamath to the Brook of Egypt. 9 On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly; for they held a dedication of the altar for seven days, and the festival was seven days. 10 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their homes, joyful and happy for the goodness that the LORD had shown to David, Solomon, and to his people Israel. 11 So Solomon finished the temple of the LORD, and the royal palace. Solomon successfully completed all that he had planned to make in the temple of the LORD and in his own palace. 12 The LORD appeared to Solomon at night, and said to him, "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself as a house for sacrifices. 13 When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among 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 will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open, and my ears alert to the prayer that is made in this place. 16 For now have I chosen and consecrated this house, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there always. 17 As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father did, and do everything I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my regulations; 18 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, just as I promised your father David, saying, 'You will never fail to have a descendant to rule over Israel.' 19 But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commands that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, 20 then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land that I have given them; and this temple, I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a mocking proverb and ridicule among all peoples. 21 And this house, which is now so awesome, everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and say, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this temple?' 22 They will answer, 'Because they forsook the LORD, the God of their forefathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, worshipped and served them. Therefore he has brought all this disaster on them.'"