Now when Sulayman had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Allah filled the house. 2The priests could not enter into the house of Allah, because the glory of Allah filled Allah’s house. 3All Bani-Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and the glory of Allah was on the house; and they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshiped, and gave thanks to Allah, saying, For he is good; for his loving kindness endures for ever. 4Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before Allah. 5King Sulayman 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. 6The priests stood, according to their offices; the Levites also with instruments of music of Allah, which Dawud the king had made to give thanks to Allah, (for his loving kindness endures for ever,) when Dawud praised by their ministry: and the priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood. 7Moreover Sulayman made the middle of the court holy that was before the house of Allah; for there he offered the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the bronze altar which Sulayman had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat. 8So Sulayman held the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt. 9On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. 10On the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that Allah had shown to Dawud, and to Sulayman, and to Israel his people. 11Thus Sulayman finished the house of Allah, and the king’s house: and all that came into Sulayman’s heart to make in the house of Allah, and in his own house, he prosperously effected. 12Allah appeared to Sulayman by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice. 13If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; 14if my people, who are called by my name, shall 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. 15Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place. 16For now have I chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. 17As for you, if you will walk before me as Dawud your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances; 18then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with Dawud your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel. 19But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; 20then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 21This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, Why has Allah done thus to this land, and to this house? 22They shall answer, Because they forsook Allah, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has he brought all this evil on them.