The Concluding Blessing

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And when Salomon had made an ende of praying all this prayer and supplication vnto the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees, and stretching of his handes to heauen,

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And stoode and blessed all the Congregation of Israel with a loud voyce, saying,

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Blessed be the Lord that hath giuen rest vnto his people Israel, according to all that hee promised: there hath not fayled one word of all his good promise which he promised by the hand of Moses his seruant.

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The Lord our God be with vs, as he was with our fathers, that he forsake vs not, neither leaue vs,

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That he may bow our heartes vnto him, that we may walke in all his waies, and keepe his commandements, and his statutes, and his lawes, which he commanded our fathers.

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And these my wordes, which I haue prayed before the Lord, be neere vnto the Lord our God day and night, that he defende the cause of his seruant, and the cause of his people Israel alway as the matter requireth,

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That all the people of ye earth may knowe, that the Lord is God, and none other.

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Let your heart therefore be perfit with the Lord our God to walke in his statutes, and to keepe his commandements, as this day.

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