1 Kings 8:53-55

New King James Version

⁵³ For You separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be Your inheritance, ^(A)as You spoke by Your servant Moses, when You brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.”

Solomon Blesses the Assembly^(B)

^54 (C)And so it was, when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to the Lord, that he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. ⁵⁵ Then he stood ^(D)and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying: