If Solomon's prayer is, as it certainly appears to be, a genuine document from that time, preserved in the archives to which the authors of both Ki…

And it was so. —At this point occurs in 2 Chronicles 7:1–3 a striking passage, describing the kindling of the sacrific…

And it was so, that, when Solomon had made an end of praying
all this prayer and supplication unto the L…

Never was a congregation dismissed with what was more likely to affect them and to abide with them. What Solomon asks for in this prayer is still g…