1 Kings 8
Solomon Brings the Ark
into the Temple |
2 Chr. 5.2-14 |
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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, 2 Sam. 6.12-16 · 1 Chr.
15.25-29 which is Zion.
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And all the men of Israel assembled
themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Eth'anim,
which is the seventh month.
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And all the elders of Israel came, and
the priests took up the ark.
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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.
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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.
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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 cherubim.
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For the cherubim spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim
covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
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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.
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There was nothing in the ark save
the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, Deut.
10.5 when the LORD made a
covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the
land of Egypt.
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And it came to pass, when the priests
were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the
house of the LORD,
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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. Ex. 40.34, 35
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The Dedication of the
Temple |
2 Chr. 6.1--7.10 |
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Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick
darkness.
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I have surely built thee a house to dwell
in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
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And the king turned his face about, and
blessed all the congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of
Israel stood;
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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,
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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 a house, that my name might be therein; but I chose
David to be over my people Israel. 2 Sam. 7.4-11 · 1 Chr.
17.3-10
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And it was in the heart of David my
father to build a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
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And the LORD said
unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build a house
unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart. 2 Sam.
7.1-3 · 1
Chr. 17.1, 2
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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. 2 Sam. 7.12, 13 · 1 Chr. 17.11, 12
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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 a house for the name of
the LORD God of Israel.
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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.
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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:
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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:
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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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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. 1
Kgs. 2.4
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And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I
pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my
father.
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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? 2 Chr. 2.6
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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 today:
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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: Deut. 12.11 that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant
shall make toward this place.
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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.
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If any man trespass against his
neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and
the oath come before thine altar in this house:
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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:
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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.
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If there be in the land famine, if
there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be
caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their
cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there
be;
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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:
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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;)
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that they may fear thee all the days that
they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
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Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country
for thy name's sake;
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(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:
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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.
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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:
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then hear thou in heaven their prayer and
their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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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;
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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;
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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:
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then hear thou their prayer and their
supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their
cause,
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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:
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for they be thy people, and thine
inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the
midst of the furnace of iron:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And he stood, and blessed all the
congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
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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. Deut. 12.10 · Josh. 21.44, 45
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The LORD our God be
with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor
forsake us:
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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.
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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:
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that all the people of the earth may know
that the LORD is God, and that there
is none else.
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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.
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And the king, and all Israel with him,
offered sacrifice before the LORD.
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And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace
offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two
and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep.
So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of
the LORD.
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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 brazen
altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat
offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
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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.
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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.
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