2 CHRONICLES 6:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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,”
For Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the middle of the court; and he stood on it. And he kneeled down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven — Solomon stood on a bronze platform (כִּיּוֹר נְחֹשֶׁת, bronzen platform) in the courtyard's center, elevated so all could see. He knelt (כָּרַע עַל־בִּרְכָּיו) in posture of humility despite being king. The platform elevated him for visibility; kneeling reduced him before God and people. The paradox (elevated location, kneeling posture) communicated both authority and submission. He spread his hands toward heaven (אֶל־הַשָּׁמַיִם), directing his prayer upward. This verse emphasizes the prayer's solemn, public character and Solomon's humiliation before God despite his royal status.
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