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Then Solomon declared:
“
The LORD has
said that He would dwell in the thick cloud;
Then said
Solomon ,
The LORD hath
said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
and
I have built You
an exalted
house, a place for You
to
dwell
forever
. ”
But
I have built an house of
habitation
for
thee
, and
a place for thy
dwelling
for
ever
.
And as
the whole
assembly
of
Israel
stood
there,
the
king turned around
and blessed them
all
And the king turned his
face,
and blessed the
whole
congregation
of
Israel:
and
all the
congregation
of
Israel
stood.
and said :
“
Blessed be the LORD ,
the
God of Israel, who has
fulfilled
with His own
hand
what
He spoke
with His mouth to my father David, saying,
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,
‘
Since the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt ,
I have
not
chosen
a
city from
any
tribe
of Israel in
which
to build a
house so
that My Name would
be there ,
nor
have
I chosen
anyone
to be ruler over My people Israel .
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 :
But now
I have chosen Jerusalem for
My Name to
be there ,
and I
have chosen David to be over My people Israel. ’
But I have chosen Jerusalem ,
that
my name might
be there ;
and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
Now it was in the heart of my father David
to build a
house for the Name of the LORD ,
the
God of Israel.
Now it was in the heart of David
my father to build an
house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
But the LORD said to my father David
, ‘Since
it was in your
heart to build a
house for My Name, you
have
done
well to
have
this
in your
heart .
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 :
Nevertheless,
you
are
not the
one
to
build it
; but your
son ,
your
own
offspring
, will
build the house for My Name. ’
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.
Now
the LORD has
fulfilled
the
word that He spoke.
I have
succeeded
my father David
, and I
sit
on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised .
I
have built the house for the Name of the LORD ,
the
God of Israel.
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.
And there
I
have provided
a
place
for
the ark, which
contains
the covenant of the LORD that He made with the children of Israel. ”
And in
it
have I
put
the ark, wherein
is
the covenant of the LORD ,
that he made with the children of Israel.
Then
Solomon
stood before the altar of the LORD in front
of the whole
assembly
of Israel and spread out
his hands .
And
he
stood before the altar of the LORD in the
presence
of all
the congregation
of Israel ,
and spread forth
his hands :
Now
Solomon had made a bronze
platform
five cubits long, five cubits wide
, and three cubits high, and had placed
it in the middle
of the courtyard.
He stood on
it
, knelt
down before the whole
assembly
of Israel, spread out
his hands toward heaven ,
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 .
and said :
“
O LORD ,
God of Israel, there is no God like You
in heaven or
on
earth
, keeping
Your
covenant of
loving
devotion
with
Your
servants who
walk before You
with all their hearts .
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 :
You
have
kept Your
promise
to
Your
servant ,
my father David.
What
You
spoke
with Your
mouth You
have
fulfilled with Your
hand this day.
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.
Therefore
now, O LORD ,
God of Israel, keep for
Your
servant ,
my father David,
what
You
promised when
You
said:
‘You
will
never
fail to
have
a man to sit before
Me
on
the throne of Israel ,
if
only
your
descendants
guard
their way to walk in My law as you
have
walked before Me. ’
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.
And
now, O LORD ,
God of Israel, please
confirm
what
You
promised
to
Your
servant David.
Now then
, O LORD God of Israel, let
thy
word
be
verified,
which
thou
hast
spoken
unto
thy
servant David.
But will God indeed
dwell with man
upon
the earth? Even
heaven
, the highest
heaven ,
cannot contain You,
much less this temple
I have built .
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 !
Yet
regard
the prayer and
plea
of Your
servant, O LORD my God, so
that
You
may
hear
the cry and the prayer that
Your
servant is
praying
before You.
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:
May
Your
eyes be open toward
this temple
day and night, toward
the place where
You
said You
would
put Your
Name ,
so
that
You
may
hear
the prayer that
Your
servant prays
toward this place.
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.
Hear
the plea
of Your
servant and of Your
people Israel when
they pray
toward this place .
May
You
hear from heaven,
Your
dwelling place .
May
You
hear
and forgive.
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.
When
a man sins
against his neighbor and is
required
to
take
an oath, and he
comes
to
take
an
oath before Your
altar in this temple,
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;
then may
You
hear from heaven and act.
May
You
judge Your
servants, condemning
the wicked man
by bringing
down
on
his own head what
he
has
done,
and justifying the righteous man
by rewarding
him according to his righteousness.
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.
When
Your
people Israel are
defeated
before an
enemy because they have sinned against You,
and they
return to
You
and confess Your
name, praying
and pleading
before You
in this temple,
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;
then may
You
hear from heaven
and forgive the sin of Your
people Israel .
May
You
restore
them to
the land You
gave
to them and their fathers.
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.
When the skies
are
shut and there is no rain because Your
people
have sinned against You,
and
they pray toward this place and confess Your
name, and they
turn from their sins
because
You
have
afflicted
them
,
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;
then may
You
hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your
servants, Your
people Israel, so
that
You
may
teach
them the good way in
which
they should walk .
May
You
send rain on
the
land that
You
gave
Your
people as
an inheritance.
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.
When
famine
or
plague
comes
upon
the land, or
blight
or mildew or
locusts or
grasshoppers
, or when
their enemies besiege them in their
cities ,
whatever
plague
or sickness may
come,
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:
then may
whatever
prayer or petition
Your
people Israel make—each
knowing
his own afflictions
and spreading
out
his hands toward
this temple—
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:
be
heard
by
You
from heaven ,
Your
dwelling place .
And may
You
forgive and repay
each
man according to
all his ways, since
You
know
his
heart —
for You
alone
know
the hearts of men —
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 :)
so
that they may fear You
and
walk in Your
ways all
the
days
they live in the land that
You
gave
to
our fathers.
That they may fear thee,
to
walk in thy
ways ,
so
long
as
they live in the land which
thou
gavest
unto
our fathers.
And
as
for
the foreigner
who
is not of Your
people Israel but has
come from a distant
land
because
of
Your
great name
and Your
mighty hand and outstretched
arm —when
he
comes
and prays
toward
this temple,
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;
then may
You
hear from heaven
, Your
dwelling place, and do according to all for
which
the foreigner
calls
to You.
Then
all the
peoples
of the earth will
know Your
name and fear You
, as do
Your
people Israel, and they
will
know that this house I have built is called by Your
Name.
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.
When
Your
people go to war against their enemies ,
wherever
You
send them, and when
they pray to
You
in
the
direction
of
the
city You
have
chosen and the house I have built for Your
Name ,
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 ;
then may
You
hear from heaven
their prayer and their plea
, and may
You
uphold
their cause.
Then hear thou
from the
heavens
their prayer and their supplication
, and maintain
their cause.
When
they sin against You—
for there is no one
who
does
not sin—
and You
become
angry with them and deliver them to
an
enemy
who
takes
them as
captives to
a land far or near ,
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 ;
and
when
they come
to
their
senses
in the land to
which
they were
taken
, and they
repent
and plead
with
You
in the land of their captors
, saying, ‘
We have sinned and
done
wrong;
we have acted
wickedly
, ’
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;
and
when
they return to You
with all their heart and soul in the land of the
enemies
who
took
them captive
, and when
they
pray in
the
direction
of
the
land that
You
gave
to
their fathers, the city You
have
chosen, and the house I have built for Your
Name ,
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 :
then may
You
hear from heaven
, Your
dwelling place, their prayer and petition
, and may
You
uphold
their cause .
May
You
forgive Your
people who
sinned against You
.
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
.
Now, my God, may
Your
eyes be open and Your
ears attentive
to
the prayer offered
in this place.
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.
Now therefore ,
arise, O LORD God, and
enter
Your
resting place, You
and the ark of Your
might.
May
Your
priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and may
Your
godly
ones
rejoice in goodness.
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.
O LORD God, do
not reject
Your
anointed one.
Remember Your
loving
devotion
to
Your
servant
David. ”
O LORD God, turn
not away
the
face
of
thine
anointed :
remember the
mercies
of
David thy
servant
.
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