| 6:1 |
Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would
dwell in the thick darkness.
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| 6:2 |
But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and
a place for thy dwelling for ever.
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| 6:3 |
And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole
congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of
Israel stood.
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| 6:4 |
And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who
hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with
his mouth to my father David, saying,
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| 6:5 |
Since the day that I brought forth my people out of
the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of
Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there;
neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people
Israel:
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| 6:6 |
But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be
there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
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| 6:7 |
Now it was in the heart of David my father to build
an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
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| 6:8 |
But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it
was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou
didst well in that it was in thine heart:
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| 6:9 |
Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but
thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall
build the house for my name.
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| 6:10 |
The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he
hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my
father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD
promised, and have built the house for the name of the
LORD God of Israel.
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| 6:11 |
And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant
of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.
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| 6:12 |
And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the
presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread
forth his hands:
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| 6:13 |
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,
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| 6:14 |
And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like
thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest
covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk
before thee with all their hearts:
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| 6:15 |
Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father
that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy
mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is
this day.
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| 6:16 |
Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy
servant David my father that which thou hast promised
him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight
to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy
children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as
thou hast walked before me.
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| 6:17 |
Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be
verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
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| 6:18 |
But will God in very deed dwell with men on the
earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot
contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
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| 6:19 |
Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant,
and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto
the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before
thee:
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| 6:20 |
That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and
night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou
wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer
which thy servant prayeth toward this place.
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| 6:21 |
Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy
servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make
toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place,
even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.
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| 6:22 |
If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be
laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before
thine altar in this house;
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| 6:23 |
Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy
servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his
way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous,
by giving him according to his righteousness.
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| 6:24 |
And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before
the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and
shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make
supplication before thee in this house;
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| 6:25 |
Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin
of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land
which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.
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| 6:26 |
When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain,
because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray
toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from
their sin, when thou dost afflict them;
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| 6:27 |
Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of
thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast
taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and
send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy
people for an inheritance.
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| 6:28 |
If there be dearth in the land, if there be
pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or
caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities
of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness
there be:
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| 6:29 |
Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be
made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every
one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall
spread forth his hands in this house:
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| 6:30 |
Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and
forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his
ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest
the hearts of the children of men:)
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| 6:31 |
That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long
as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our
fathers.
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| 6:32 |
Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy
people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy
great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched
out arm; if they come and pray in this house;
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| 6:33 |
Then hear thou from the heavens, even from 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, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel,
and may know that this house which I have built is called
by thy name.
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| 6:34 |
If thy people go out to war against their enemies by
the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto
thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the
house which I have built for thy name;
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| 6:35 |
Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and
their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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| 6:36 |
If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which
sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver
them over before their enemies, and they carry them away
captives unto a land far off or near;
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| 6:37 |
Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither
they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in
the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we
have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;
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| 6:38 |
If they return to thee with all their heart and with
all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither
they have carried them captives, and pray toward their
land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward
the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house
which I have built for thy name:
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| 6:39 |
Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy
dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and
maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have
sinned against thee.
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| 6:40 |
Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open,
and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made
in this place.
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| 6:41 |
Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting
place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy
priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let
thy saints rejoice in goodness.
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| 6:42 |
O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed:
remember the mercies of David thy servant.
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