1 Kings 8:53-55

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁵³ For you singled them out for yourself as your possession from all the peoples of the earth, just as you said through Moses your servant when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

The Dedication of the Temple

⁵⁴ When Solomon finished offering all these prayers and pleas for mercy to the Lord, he got up from the altar of the Lord, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven. ⁵⁵ Then he stood and blessed the whole congregation of Israel with a loud voice: