2 Chronicles 6
The Dedication of the
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1 Kgs. 18.12-66 |
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Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick
darkness.
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But I have built a house of habitation
for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.
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And the king turned his face, and blessed
the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel
stood.
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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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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 a 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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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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Now 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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But the LORD said to
David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build a house
for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine
heart:
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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. 2 Sam. 7.1-13 · 1 Chr.
17.1-12
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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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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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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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for Solomon had made a brazen 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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and said, O LORD God
of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in
the earth; which keepest covenant, and showest mercy unto thy
servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:
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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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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. 1 Kgs. 2.4
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Now then, O LORD God
of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy
servant David.
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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! 2 Chr.
2.6
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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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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; Deut. 12.11 to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward
this place.
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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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If a man sin against his neighbor, 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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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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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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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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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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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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If there be dearth in the land, if
there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locusts or
caterpillars; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their
land; whatsoever sore, or whatsoever sickness there
be:
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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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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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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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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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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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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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then hear thou from the heavens their
prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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O LORD God, turn not
away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy
servant. Ps. 132.8-10
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