1 Kings 8:48 → Deuteronomy 6:5

Solomon's temple-dedication prayer reaches past the dedication moment to a future captivity and pleads that exiled Israel will "return to You with all their heart and soul (bəkol ləbābām ûbəkol napšām) in the land of the enemies." The Shema's signature pair — heart and soul — becomes the vocabulary of repentance and restoration: the whole-being love commanded in Deut 6:5 is now the whole-being turning that alone can reverse exile. The allusion shows the Shema migrating from the catechetical core of the household (6:6-9) into the great public liturgy of the temple, and onward into the theology of return that will shape the prophets and Daniel 9. Solomon also presupposes Deut 30:1-6, where return "with all your heart and soul" follows Yahweh's circumcision of the heart. The telos: the temple toward which exiles pray points beyond itself to the One who is the true temple and true Israel — Jesus, in whom the scattered are gathered and the whole-hearted return to God is at last accomplished, so that the believer prays not toward a building but toward the Father through the Son.