6:1 Then said Solomon, The Lord said that he
would dwell in thick darkness.
6:2 But I have built a house to thy name, holy to thee, and prepared [for
thee] to dwell in for ever.
6:3 And the king turned his face, and blessed all the congregation of
Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood by.
6:4 And he said, Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel: he has even fulfilled
with his hands as he spoke with his mouth to my father David, saying,
6:5 From the day when I brought up my people out of the land of Egypt, I
chose no city of all the tribes of Israel, to build a house that my name
should be there; neither did I choose a man to be a leader over my people
Israel.
6:6 But I chose Jerusalem that my name should be there; and I chose David to
be over my people Israel.
6:7 And it came into the heart of David my father, to build a house for the
name of the Lord God of Israel.
6:8 But the Lord said to my father David, Whereas it came into thy heart to
build a house for my name, thou didst well that it came into thy heart.
6:9 Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; for thy son who shall come
forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
6:10 And the Lord has confirmed this word, which he spoke; and I am raised
up in the room of my father David, and I sit upon the throne of Israel as
the Lord said, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord God of
Israel:
6:11 and I have set there the ark in which [is] the covenant of the Lord,
which he made with Israel.
6:12 And he stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the
congregation of Israel, and spread out his hands.
6:13 For Solomon [had] made a brazen scaffold, and set it in the midst of
the court of the sanctuary; the length of it [was] five cubits, and the
breadth of it five cubits, and the height of it three cubits: and he stood
upon it, and fell upon his knees before the whole congregation of Israel,
and spread abroad his hands to heaven,
6:14 and said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in heaven, or
on the earth; keeping covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before
thee with [their] whole heart.
6:15 Even as thou hast kept [them] with thy servant David my father, as thou
hast spoken to him in words:-- thou hast both spoken with thy mouth, and
hast fulfilled [it] with thy hands, as it is this day.
6:16 and now, Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father the
things which thou spokest to him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man
before me sitting on the throne of Israel, if only thy sons will take heed
to their way to walk in my law, as thou didst walk before me.
6:17 And now, Lord God of Israel, let, I pray thee, thy word be confirmed,
which thou hast spoken to thy servant David.
6:18 For will God indeed dwell with men upon the earth? if the heaven and
the heaven of heavens will not suffice thee, what then is this house which I
have built?
6:19 Yet thou shalt have respect to the prayer of thy servant, and to my
petition, O Lord God, so as to hearken to the petition and the prayer which
thy servant prays before thee this day:
6:20 so that thine eyes should be open over this house by day and by night,
towards this place, whereon thou saidst thy name should be called, so as to
hear the prayer which thy servant prays towards this house.
6:21 And thou shalt hear the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people
Israel, whatsoever prayers they shall make towards this place: and thou
shalt hearken in thy dwelling-place out of heaven, yea thou shalt hear, and
be merciful.
6:22 If a man sin against his neighbour, and he bring an oath upon him so as
to make him swear, and he come and swear before the altar in this house;
6:23 then shalt thou hearken out of heaven, and do, and judge thy servants,
to recompense the transgressor, and to return his ways upon his head: and to
justify the righteous, to recompense him according to his righteousness.
6:24 And if thy people Israel should be put to the worse before the enemy,
if they should sin against thee, and [then] turn and confess to thy name,
and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;
6:25 then shalt thou hearken out of heaven and shalt be merciful to the sins
of thy people Israel, and thou shalt restore them to the land which thou
gavest to them and to their fathers.
6:26 When heaven is restrained, and there is no rain, because they shall
have sinned against thee, and [when] they shall pray towards this place, and
praise thy name, and shall turn from their sins, because thou shalt afflict
them;
6:27 then shalt thou hearken from heaven, and thou shalt be merciful to the
sins of thy servants, and of thy people Israel; for thou shalt shew them the
good way in which they shall walk; and thou shalt send rain upon thy land,
which thou gavest to thy people for an inheritance.
6:28 If there should be famine upon the land, if there should be death, a
pestilent wind an blight; if there should be locust and caterpillar, and if
the enemy should harass them before their cities: in whatever plague and
whatever distress [they may be];
6:29 Then whatever prayer and whatever supplication shall be made by any man
and all thy people Israel, if a man should know his own plague and his own
sickness, and should spread forth his hands toward this house;
6:30 then shalt thou hear from heaven, out of thy prepared dwelling-place,
and shalt be merciful, and shalt recompense to the man according to his
ways, as thou shalt know his heart [to be]; for thou alone knowest the heart
of the children of men:
6:31 that they may reverence all thy ways all the days which they live upon
the face of the land, which thou gavest to our fathers.
6:32 And every stranger who is not himself of thy people Israel, and who
shall have come from a distant land because of thy great name, and thy
mighty hand, and thy high arm; when they shall come and worship toward this
place;--
6:33 then shalt thou hearken out of heaven, out of thy prepared
dwelling-place, and shalt do according to all that the stranger shall call
upon thee for; that all the nations of the earth may know thy name, and that
they may fear thee, as thy people Israel [do], and that they may know that
thy name is called upon this house which I have built.
6:34 And if thy people shall go forth to war against their enemies by the
way by which thou shalt send them, and shall pray to thee toward this city
which thou hast chosen, and [toward] the house which I have built to thy
name;
6:35 then shalt thou hear out of heaven their prayer and their supplication,
and maintain their cause.
6:36 Whereas if they shall sin against thee, (for there is no man who will
not sin,) and thou shalt smite them, and deliver them up before their
enemies, and they that take them captive shall carry them away into a land
of enemies, to a land far off or near;
6:37 and [if] they shall repent in their land whither they were carried
captive, and shall also turn and make supplication to thee in their
captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have transgressed, we have wrought
unrighteously;
6:38 and [if] they shall turn to thee with all their heart and all their
soul in the land of them that carried them captives, whither they carried
them captives, and shall pray toward their land which thou gavest to their
fathers, and the city which thou didst choose, and the house which I built
to thy name:--
6:39 then shalt thou hear out of heaven, out of thy prepared dwelling-place,
their prayer and their supplication, and thou shalt execute justice, and
shalt be merciful to thy people that sin against thee.
6:40 And now, Lord, let, I pray thee, thine eyes be opened, and thine ears
be attentive to the petition [made in] this place.
6:41 And now, O Lord God, arise into thy resting-place, thou, and the ark of
thy strength: let thy priests, O Lord God, clothe themselves with salvation,
and thy sons rejoice in prosperity.
6:42 O Lord God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the
mercies of thy servant David. |
6:1 Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said
that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
6:2 But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy
dwelling for ever.
6:3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of
Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.
6:4 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,
6:5 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:
6:6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have
chosen David to be over my people Israel.
6:7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the
name of the LORD God of Israel.
6:8 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:
6:9 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.
6:10 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.
6:11 And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, that
he made with the children of Israel.
6:12 And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the
congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
6:13 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.
6:14 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:
6:15 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.
6:16 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.
6:17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou
hast spoken unto thy servant David.
6:18 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!
6:19 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:
6:20 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.
6:21 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.
6:22 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;
6:23 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.
6:24 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;
6:25 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.
6:26 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;
6:27 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.
6:28 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:
6:29 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:
6:30 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:)
6:31 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in
the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
6:32 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;
6:33 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.
6:34 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;
6:35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication,
and maintain their cause.
6:36 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;
6:37 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;
6:38 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:
6:39 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.
6:40 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.
6:41 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.
6:42 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the
mercies of David thy servant. |