12 Then he stood before the altar of Jehovah in front of all the congregation of Israel, and he spread out his hands.+ 13 (For Solʹo·mon had made a platform of copper and put it in the middle of the court.*+ It was five cubits* long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high; and he stood on it.) And he knelt down in front of all the congregation of Israel and spread his hands out to the heavens,+