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| 2 Chronicles 6:1 |
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Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he
would dwell in the thick darkness. |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:2 |
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But I have built an house of habitation for
thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever. |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:3 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:4 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:5 |
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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
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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| 2 Chronicles 6:6 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:7 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:8 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:9 |
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:10 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:11 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:12 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:13 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:14 |
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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 shewest
mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts: |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:15 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:16 |
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:17 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:18 |
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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! |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:19 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:20 |
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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; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place. |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:21 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:22 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:23 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:24 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:25 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:26 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:27 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:28 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:29 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:30 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:31 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:32 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:33 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:34 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:35 |
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Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer
and their supplication, and maintain their cause. |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:36 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:37 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:38 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:39 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:40 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:41 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:42 |
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O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine
anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant. |
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