¹² And he stood before the altar of Jehovah in the presence of the whole congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands.

¹³ For Solomon had made a platform of bronze, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and upon it he stood, and he kneeled down on his knees before the whole congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward the heavens,