If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven
“Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him,
All this came upon us, though we had not forgotten you; we had not been false to your covenant.
But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by God will glory in him, while the mouths of liars will be silenced.
Envoys will come from Egypt; Cush will submit herself to God.
They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them.
You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not worship any god other than me.
Moses replied, “When I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands in prayer to the Lord. The thunder will stop and there will be no more hail, so you may know that the earth is the Lord’s.
Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you;