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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, which is Zion. |
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| 1 Kings 8:2 |
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And all the men of Israel assembled themselves
unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. |
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| 1 Kings 8:3 |
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And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests
took up the ark. |
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| 1 Kings 8:4 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:5 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:6 |
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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 cherubims. |
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| 1 Kings 8:7 |
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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. |
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| 1 Kings 8:8 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:9 |
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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. |
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| 1 Kings 8:10 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:11 |
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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. |
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| 1 Kings 8:12 |
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Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would
dwell in the thick darkness. |
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| 1 Kings 8:13 |
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I have surely built thee an house to dwell in,
a settled place for thee to abide in for ever. |
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| 1 Kings 8:14 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:15 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:16 |
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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
an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people
Israel. |
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| 1 Kings 8:17 |
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And 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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| 1 Kings 8:18 |
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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. |
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| 1 Kings 8:19 |
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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. |
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| 1 Kings 8:20 |
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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 an house for the name of the LORD
God of Israel. |
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| 1 Kings 8:21 |
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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. |
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| 1 Kings 8:22 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:23 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:24 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:25 |
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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. |
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| 1 Kings 8:26 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:27 |
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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? |
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| 1 Kings 8:28 |
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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 to day: |
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| 1 Kings 8:29 |
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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: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward
this place. |
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| 1 Kings 8:30 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:31 |
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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: |
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| 1 Kings 8:32 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:33 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:34 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:35 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:36 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:37 |
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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; |
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| 1 Kings 8:38 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:39 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:40 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:41 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:42 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:43 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:44 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:45 |
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Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their
supplication, and maintain their cause. |
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| 1 Kings 8:46 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:48 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:49 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:50 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:51 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:52 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:54 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:55 |
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And he stood, and blessed all the congregation
of Israel with a loud voice, saying, |
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| 1 Kings 8:56 |
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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. |
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| 1 Kings 8:57 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:58 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:59 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:60 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:61 |
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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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| 1 Kings 8:62 |
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And the king, and all Israel with him, offered
sacrifice before the LORD. |
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| 1 Kings 8:63 |
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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. |
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| 1 Kings 8:64 |
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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
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. |
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| 1 Kings 8:65 |
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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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