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The
Ark Brought into the Temple |
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| 1 Kings 8:1 |
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Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel
and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' households of the
sons of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant
of the LORD from the city of David, which is Zion. |
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| 1 Kings 8:2 |
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All the men of Israel assembled themselves to
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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Then 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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They brought up the ark of the LORD and the
tent of meeting and all the holy utensils, which were in the tent, and the priests
and the Levites brought them up. |
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| 1 Kings 8:5 |
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And King Solomon and all the congregation of
Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so
many sheep and oxen they could not be counted or numbered. |
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| 1 Kings 8:6 |
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Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant
of the LORD to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy
place, under the wings of the cherubim. |
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| 1 Kings 8:7 |
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For the cherubim spread their wings over the
place of the ark, and the cherubim made a covering over the ark and its poles
from above. |
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| 1 Kings 8:8 |
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But the poles were so long that the ends of
the poles could be seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary, but they
could not be seen outside; they are there to this day. |
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| 1 Kings 8:9 |
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There was nothing in the ark except the two
tablets of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant
with the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. |
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| 1 Kings 8:10 |
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It happened that when the priests came from
the holy place, 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 filled the house of the LORD. |
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Solomon
Addresses the People |
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| 1 Kings 8:12 |
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Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said that He
would dwell in the thick cloud. |
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| 1 Kings 8:13 |
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"I have surely built You a lofty house, A place
for Your dwelling forever." |
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| 1 Kings 8:14 |
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Then the king faced about and blessed all the
assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel was standing. |
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| 1 Kings 8:15 |
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He said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,
who spoke with His mouth to my father David and has fulfilled it with His hand,
saying, |
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| 1 Kings 8:16 |
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'Since the day that I brought My people Israel
from Egypt, I did not choose a city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to
build a house that My name might be there, but I chose David to be over My people
Israel.' |
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| 1 Kings 8:17 |
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Now it was in the heart of my father David to
build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. |
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| 1 Kings 8:18 |
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But the LORD said to my father David, 'Because
it was in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it was in
your heart. |
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| 1 Kings 8:19 |
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Nevertheless you shall not build the house,
but your son who will be born to you, he will build the house for My name.' |
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| 1 Kings 8:20 |
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Now the LORD has fulfilled His word which He
spoke; for I have risen in place of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel,
as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God
of Israel. |
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| 1 Kings 8:21 |
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There I have set a place for the ark, in which
is the covenant of the LORD, which He made with our fathers when He brought them
from the land of Egypt." |
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The
Prayer of Dedication |
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| 1 Kings 8:22 |
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Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD
in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward
heaven. |
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| 1 Kings 8:23 |
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He said, "O LORD, the God of Israel, there is
no God like You in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing
lovingkindness to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart, |
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| 1 Kings 8:24 |
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who have kept with Your servant, my father David,
that which You have promised him; indeed, You have spoken with Your mouth and
have fulfilled it with Your hand as it is this day. |
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| 1 Kings 8:25 |
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Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, keep
with Your servant David my father that which You have promised him, saying, 'You
shall not lack a man to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed
to their way to walk before Me as you have walked.' |
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| 1 Kings 8:26 |
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Now therefore, O God of Israel, let Your word,
I pray, be confirmed which You have spoken to Your servant, my father David. |
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| 1 Kings 8:27 |
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"But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold,
heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You, how much less this house which
I have built! |
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| 1 Kings 8:28 |
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Yet have regard to the prayer of Your servant
and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer
which Your servant prays before You today; |
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| 1 Kings 8:29 |
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that Your eyes may be open toward this house
night and day, toward the place of which You have said, 'My name shall be there,'
to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place. |
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| 1 Kings 8:30 |
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Listen to the supplication of Your servant and
of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place; hear in heaven Your dwelling
place; hear and forgive. |
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| 1 Kings 8:31 |
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"If a man sins against his neighbor and is made
to take an oath, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house, |
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| 1 Kings 8:32 |
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then hear in heaven and act and judge Your servants,
condemning the wicked by bringing his way on his own head and justifying the righteous
by giving him according to his righteousness. |
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| 1 Kings 8:33 |
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"When Your people Israel are defeated before
an enemy, because they have sinned against You, if they turn to You again and
confess Your name and pray and make supplication to You in this house, |
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| 1 Kings 8:34 |
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then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of
Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers. |
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| 1 Kings 8:35 |
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"When the heavens are shut up and there is no
rain, because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and
confess Your name and turn from their sin when You afflict them, |
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| 1 Kings 8:36 |
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then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of
Your servants and of Your people Israel, indeed, teach them the good way in which
they should walk. And send rain on Your land, which You have given Your people
for an inheritance. |
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| 1 Kings 8:37 |
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"If there is famine in the land, if there is
pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper, if their enemy
besieges them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness
there is, |
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| 1 Kings 8:38 |
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whatever prayer or supplication is made by any
man or by all Your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart,
and spreading his hands toward this house; |
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| 1 Kings 8:39 |
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then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and
forgive and act and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart You
know, for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men, |
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| 1 Kings 8:40 |
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that they may fear You all the days that they
live in the land which You have given to our fathers. |
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| 1 Kings 8:41 |
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"Also concerning the foreigner who is not of
Your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for Your name's sake |
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| 1 Kings 8:42 |
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(for they will hear of Your great name and Your
mighty hand, and of Your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays toward this
house, |
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| 1 Kings 8:43 |
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hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do
according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, in order that all the peoples
of the earth may know Your name, to fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that
they may know that this house which I have built is called by Your name. |
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| 1 Kings 8:44 |
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"When Your people go out to battle against
their enemy, by whatever way You shall send them, and they pray to the LORD toward
the city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name, |
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| 1 Kings 8:45 |
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then hear in heaven their prayer and their
supplication, and maintain their cause. |
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| 1 Kings 8:46 |
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"When they sin against You (for there is no
man who does not sin) and You are angry with them and deliver them to an enemy,
so that they take them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near; |
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if they take thought in the land where they
have been taken captive, and repent and make supplication to You in the land of
those who have taken them captive, saying, 'We have sinned and have committed
iniquity, we have acted wickedly'; |
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if they return to You with all their heart
and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive,
and pray to You toward their land which You have given to their fathers, the city
which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name; |
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| 1 Kings 8:49 |
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then hear their prayer and their supplication
in heaven Your dwelling place, and maintain their cause, |
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and forgive Your people who have sinned against
You and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You, and
make them objects of compassion before those who have taken them captive, that
they may have compassion on them |
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| 1 Kings 8:51 |
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(for they are Your people and Your inheritance
which You have brought forth from Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace), |
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that Your eyes may be open to the supplication
of Your servant and to the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them
whenever they call to You. |
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| 1 Kings 8:53 |
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For You have separated them from all the peoples
of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke through Moses Your servant, when
You brought our fathers forth from Egypt, O Lord GOD." |
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Solomon's
Benediction |
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| 1 Kings 8:54 |
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When Solomon had finished praying this entire
prayer and supplication to the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD,
from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread toward heaven. |
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| 1 Kings 8:55 |
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And he stood and blessed all the assembly of
Israel with a loud voice, saying: |
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| 1 Kings 8:56 |
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"Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to
His people Israel, according to all that He promised; not one word has failed
of all His good promise, which He promised through Moses His servant. |
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May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with
our fathers; may He not leave us or forsake us, |
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that He may incline our hearts to Himself,
to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His
ordinances, which He commanded our fathers. |
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And may these words of mine, with which I have
made supplication before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night,
that He may maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel,
as each day requires, |
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so that all the peoples of the earth may know
that the LORD is God; there is no one else. |
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| 1 Kings 8:61 |
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Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to
the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at
this day." |
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Dedicatory
Sacrifices |
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| 1 Kings 8:62 |
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Now the king and all Israel with him offered
sacrifice before the LORD. |
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| 1 Kings 8:63 |
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Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings,
which he offered to the LORD, 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all
the sons of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. |
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On the same day the king consecrated the middle
of the court that was before the house of the LORD, because there he offered the
burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings; for
the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to hold the burnt offering
and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings. |
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So Solomon observed the feast at that time,
and all Israel with him, a great assembly from the entrance of Hamath to the brook
of Egypt, before the LORD our God, for seven days and seven more days, even fourteen
days. |
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On the eighth day he sent the people away and
they blessed the king. Then they went to their tents joyful and glad of heart
for all the goodness that the LORD had shown to David His servant and to Israel
His people. |
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