Egli, infatti, avea fatto costruire una tribuna di rame, lunga cinque cubiti, larga cinque cubiti e alta tre cubiti, e l’avea posta in mezzo al cortile; egli vi salì, si mise in ginocchio in presenza di tutta la raunanza d’Israele, stese le mani verso il cielo, e disse:
For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of 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 kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,