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| 8:1 | Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all
the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the
children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that
they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD
out of the city of David, which is Zion. |
| 8:2 | And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto
king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is
the seventh month. |
| 8:3 | And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests
took up the ark. |
| 8:4 | And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the
tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels
that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests
and the Levites bring up. |
| 8:5 | And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel,
that were assembled unto him, were with him before the
ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told
nor numbered for multitude. |
| 8:6 | And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of
the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to
the most holy place, even under the wings of the
cherubims. |
| 8:7 | For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over
the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark
and the staves thereof above. |
| 8:8 | And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the
staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle,
and they were not seen without: and there they are unto
this day. |
| 8:9 | There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of
stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made
a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came
out of the land of Egypt. |
| 8:10 | And it came to pass, when the priests were come out
of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the
LORD, |
| 8:11 | So that the priests could not stand to minister
because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had
filled the house of the LORD. |
| 8:12 | Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell
in the thick darkness. |
| 8:13 | I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a
settled place for thee to abide in for ever. |
| 8:14 | And the king turned his face about, and blessed all
the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of
Israel stood;) |
| 8:15 | And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which
spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with
his hand fulfilled it, saying, |
| 8:16 | Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel
out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of
Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein;
but I chose David to be over my people Israel. |
| 8:17 | And it was in the heart of David my father to build
an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel. |
| 8:18 | And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it
was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou
didst well that it was in thine heart. |
| 8:19 | Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy
son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall
build the house unto my name. |
| 8:20 | And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake,
and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit
on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have
built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel. |
| 8:21 | And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is
the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers,
when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. |
| 8:22 | And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the
presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread
forth his hands toward heaven: |
| 8:23 | And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like
thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest
covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before
thee with all their heart: |
| 8:24 | Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that
thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth,
and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
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| 8:25 | Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy
servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying,
There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the
throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their
way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before
me. |
| 8:26 | And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee,
be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my
father. |
| 8:27 | But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the
heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how
much less this house that I have builded? |
| 8:28 | Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant,
and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto
the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth
before thee to day: |
| 8:29 | That thine eyes may be open toward this house night
and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said,
My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the
prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place. |
| 8:30 | And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant,
and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward
this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place:
and when thou hearest, forgive. |
| 8:31 | If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an
oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath
come before thine altar in this house: |
| 8:32 | Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy
servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon
his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him
according to his righteousness. |
| 8:33 | When thy people Israel be smitten down before the
enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall
turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and
make supplication unto thee in this house: |
| 8:34 | Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy
people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which
thou gavest unto their fathers. |
| 8:35 | When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because
they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this
place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin,
when thou afflictest them: |
| 8:36 | Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy
servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them
the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon
thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an
inheritance. |
| 8:37 | If there be in the land famine, if there be
pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be
caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of
their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness
there be; |
| 8:38 | What prayer and supplication soever be made by any
man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every
man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his
hands toward this house: |
| 8:39 | Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and
forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his
ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou
only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;) |
| 8:40 | That they may fear thee all the days that they live
in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers. |
| 8:41 | Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy
people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy
name's sake; |
| 8:42 | (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy
strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall
come and pray toward this house; |
| 8:43 | Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do
according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for:
that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear
thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know
that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy
name. |
| 8:44 | If thy people go out to battle against their enemy,
whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto
the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and
toward the house that I have built for thy name: |
| 8:45 | Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their
supplication, and maintain their cause. |
| 8:46 | If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that
sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver
them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives
unto the land of the enemy, far or near; |
| 8:47 | Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land
whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make
supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried
them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done
perversely, we have committed wickedness; |
| 8:48 | And so return unto thee with all their heart, and
with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which
led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their
land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city
which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built
for thy name: |
| 8:49 | Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in
heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause, |
| 8:50 | And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee,
and all their transgressions wherein they have
transgressed against thee, and give them compassion
before them who carried them captive, that they may have
compassion on them: |
| 8:51 | For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which
thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the
furnace of iron: |
| 8:52 | That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of
thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people
Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for
unto thee. |
| 8:53 | For thou didst separate them from among all the
people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou
spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou
broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O LORD God. |
| 8:54 | And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of
praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD,
he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling
on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. |
| 8:55 | And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of
Israel with a loud voice, saying, |
| 8:56 | Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his
people Israel, according to all that he promised: there
hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which
he promised by the hand of Moses his servant. |
| 8:57 | The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our
fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us: |
| 8:58 | That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in
all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his
statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our
fathers. |
| 8:59 | And let these my words, wherewith I have made
supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our
God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his
servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times,
as the matter shall require: |
| 8:60 | That all the people of the earth may know that the
LORD is God, and that there is none else. |
| 8:61 | Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our
God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his
commandments, as at this day. |
| 8:62 | And the king, and all Israel with him, offered
sacrifice before the LORD. |
| 8:63 | And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings,
which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand
oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the
king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house
of the LORD. |
| 8:64 | The same day did the king hallow the middle of the
court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he
offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat
of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was
before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt
offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace
offerings. |
| 8:65 | And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel
with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of
Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God,
seven days and seven days, even fourteen days. |
| 8:66 | On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they
blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and
glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done
for David his servant, and for Israel his people. |