1 Kings 8:53-55

New American Standard Bible

⁵³ For You have singled them out from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, ^(A)just as You spoke through Moses Your servant, when You brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord ^[a]God.”

Solomon’s Benediction

^54 (B)When Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and plea to the Lord, ^(C)he stood up from the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his ^[b]hands spread toward heaven. ⁵⁵ And he stood and ^(D)blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying: