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Solomon's
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| 2 Chronicles 6:1 |
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Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said that
He would dwell in the thick cloud. |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:2 |
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"I have built You a lofty house, And a place
for Your dwelling forever." |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:3 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:4 |
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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 hands,
saying, |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:5 |
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'Since the day that I brought My people from
the land of 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, nor did I choose any man for
a leader 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 I 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 my father David to
build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:8 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:9 |
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Nevertheless you shall not build the house,
but your son who will be born to you, he shall build the house for My name.' |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:10 |
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Now the LORD has fulfilled His word which He
spoke; for I have risen in the 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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| 2 Chronicles 6:11 |
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There I have set the ark in which is the covenant
of the LORD, which He made with the sons of Israel." |
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Solomon's
Prayer of Dedication |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:12 |
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Then he stood before the altar of the LORD in
the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands. |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:13 |
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Now Solomon had made a bronze platform, five
cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst
of the court; and he stood on it, knelt on his knees in the presence of all the
assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven. |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:14 |
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He said, "O LORD, the God of Israel, there is
no god like You in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing lovingkindness
to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart; |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:15 |
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who has kept with Your servant David, my father,
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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| 2 Chronicles 6:16 |
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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 in My law as you have walked before Me.' |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:17 |
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Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, let
Your word be confirmed which You have spoken to Your servant David. |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:18 |
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"But will God indeed dwell with mankind 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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| 2 Chronicles 6:19 |
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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; |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:20 |
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that Your eye may be open toward this house
day and night, toward the place of which You have said that You would put Your
name there, to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this
place. |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:21 |
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Listen to the supplications of Your servant
and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place; hear from Your dwelling
place, from heaven; hear and forgive. |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:22 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 6:23 |
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then hear from heaven and act and judge Your
servants, punishing 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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| 2 Chronicles 6:24 |
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"If Your people Israel are defeated before
an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess
Your name, and pray and make supplication before You in this house, |
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then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of
Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You have given to them
and to their fathers. |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:26 |
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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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then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of
Your servants and Your people Israel, indeed, teach them the good way in which
they should walk. And send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people
for an inheritance. |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:28 |
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"If there is famine in the land, if there is
pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, if there is locust or grasshopper, if
their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities, whatever plague or whatever
sickness there is, |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:29 |
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whatever prayer or supplication is made by any
man or by all Your people Israel, each knowing his own affliction and his own
pain, and spreading his hands toward this house, |
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then hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and
forgive, and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know for
You alone know the hearts of the sons of men, |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:31 |
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that they may fear You, to walk in Your ways
as long as they live in the land which You have given to our fathers. |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:32 |
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"Also concerning the foreigner who is not from
Your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for Your great name's sake
and Your mighty hand and Your outstretched arm, when they come and pray toward
this house, |
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then hear from heaven, from 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, and 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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| 2 Chronicles 6:34 |
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"When Your people go out to battle against their
enemies, by whatever way You shall send them, and they pray to You toward this
city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name, |
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then hear from heaven their prayer and their
supplication, and maintain their cause. |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:36 |
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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 a land far off or near, |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:37 |
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if they take thought in the land where they
are taken captive, and repent and make supplication to You in the land of their
captivity, saying, 'We have sinned, we have committed iniquity and have acted
wickedly'; |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:38 |
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if they return to You with all their heart and
with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been taken
captive, and pray toward their land which You have given to their fathers and
the city which You have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for Your
name, |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:39 |
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then hear from heaven, from Your dwelling place,
their prayer and supplications, and maintain their cause and forgive Your people
who have sinned against You. |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:40 |
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"Now, O my God, I pray, let Your eyes be open
and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place. |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:41 |
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"Now therefore arise, O LORD God, to Your resting
place, You and the ark of Your might; let Your priests, O LORD God, be clothed
with salvation and let Your godly ones rejoice in what is good. |
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| 2 Chronicles 6:42 |
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"O LORD God, do not turn away the face of Your
anointed; remember Your lovingkindness to Your servant David." |
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