8:1 And it came to pass when Solomon had
finished building the house of the Lord and his own house after twenty
years, then king Solomon assembled all the elders of Israel in Sion, to
bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, this is
Sion,
8:2 in the month of Athanin.
8:3 And the priests took up the ark,
8:4 and the tabernacle of testimony, and the holy furniture that was in the
tabernacle of testimony.
8:5 And the king and all Israel [were occupied] before the ark, sacrificing
sheep [and] oxen, without number.
8:6 And the priests bring in the ark into its place, into the oracle of the
house, even into the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubs.
8:7 For the cherubs spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and
the cherubs covered the ark and its holy things above.
8:8 And the holy staves projected, and the ends of the holy staves appeared
out of the holy places in front of the oracle, and were not seen without.
8:9 There was nothing in the ark except the two tables of stone, the tables
of the covenant which Moses put [there] in Choreb, which [tables] the Lord
made [as a covenant] with the children of Israel in their going forth from
the land of Egypt.
8:10 And it came to pass when the priests departed out of the holy place,
that the cloud filled the house.
8:11 And the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud,
because the glory of the Lord filled the house.
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8:14 And the king turned his face, and the king blessed all Israel, (and the
whole assembly of Israel stood:)
8:15 and he said, Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel to-day, who spoke by
his mouth concerning David my father, and has fulfilled it with his hands,
saying,
8:16 From the day that I brought out my people Israel out of Egypt, I have
not chosen a city in [any] one tribe of Israel to build a house, so that my
name should be there: but I chose Jerusalem that my name should be there,
and I chose David to be over my people Israel.
8:17 And it was in the heart of my father to build a house to the name of
the Lord God of Israel.
8:18 And the Lord said to David my father, Forasmuch as it came into thine
heart to build a house to my name, thou didst well that it came upon thine
heart.
8:19 Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house, but thy son that has
proceeded out of thy bowels, he shall build the house to my name.
8:20 And the Lord has confirmed the word that he spoke, and I am risen up in
the place of my father David, and I have sat down on the throne of Israel,
as the Lord spoke, and I have built the house to the name of the Lord God of
Israel.
8:21 And I have set there a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of
the Lord, which the Lord made with our fathers, when he brought them out of
the land of Egypt.
8:22 And Solomon stood up in front of the altar before all the congregation
of Israel; and he spread out his hands toward heaven:
8:23 and he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in heaven
above and on the earth beneath, keeping covenant and mercy with thy servant
who walks before thee with all his heart;
8:24 which thou hast kept toward thy servant David my father: for thou hast
spoken by thy mouth and thou hast fulfilled it with thine hands, as [at]
this day.
8:25 And now, O Lord God of Israel, keep for thy servant David my father,
[the promises] which thou hast spoken to him, saying, There shall not be
taken from thee a man sitting before me on the throne of Israel, provided
only thy children shall take heed to their ways, to walk before me as thou
hast walked before me.
8:26 And now, O Lord God of Israel, let, I pray thee, thy word to David my
father be confirmed.
8:27 But will God indeed dwell with men upon the earth? if the heaven and
heaven of heavens will not suffice thee, how much less even this house which
I have built to thy name?
8:28 Yet, O Lord God of Israel, thou shalt look upon my petition, to hear
the prayer which thy servant prays to thee in thy presence this day,
8:29 that thine eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even
toward the place which thou saidst, My name shall be there, to hear the
prayer which thy servant prays at this place day and night.
8:30 And thou shalt hearken to the prayer of thy servant, and of thy people
Israel, which they shall pray toward this place; and thou shalt hear in thy
dwelling-place in heaven, and thou shalt do and be gracious.
8:31 Whatsoever trespasses any [one] shall commit against his neighbor,--
and if he shall take upon him an oath so that he should swear, and he shall
come and make confession before thine altar in this house,
8:32 then shalt thou hear from heaven, and do, and thou shalt judge thy
people Israel, that the wicked should be condemned, to recompense his way
upon his head; and to justify the righteous, to give to him according to his
righteousness.
8:33 When thy people Israel falls before enemies, because they shall sin
against thee, and they shall return and confess to thy name, and they shall
pray and supplicate in this house,
8:34 then shalt thou hear from heaven, and be gracious to the sins of thy
people Israel, and thou shalt restore them to the land which thou gavest to
their fathers.
8:35 When the heaven is restrained, and there is no rain, because they shall
sin against thee, and the shall pray toward this place, and they shall make
confession to thy name, and shall turn from their sins when thou shalt have
humbled them,
8:36 then thou shalt hear from heaven, and be merciful to the sins of thy
servant and of thy people Israel; for thou shalt shew them the good way to
walk in it, and thou shalt give rain upon the earth which thou hast given to
thy people for an inheritance.
8:37 If there should be famine, if there should be death, because there
should be blasting, locust, or if there be mildew, and if their enemy
oppress them in [any] one of their cities, [with regard to] every calamity,
every trouble,
8:38 every prayer, every supplication whatever shall be made by any man, as
they shall know each the plague of his heart, and shall spread abroad his
hands to this house,
8:39 then shalt thou hearken from heaven, out of thine established
dwelling-place, and shalt be merciful, and shalt do, and recompense to
[every] man according to his ways, as thou shalt know his heart, for thou
alone knowest the heart of all the children of men:
8:40 that they may fear thee all the days that they live upon the land,
which thou hast given to our fathers.
8:41 And for the stranger who is not of thy people,
8:42 when they shall come and pray toward this place,
8:43 then shalt thou hear [them] from heaven, out of thine established
dwelling-place, and thou shalt do according to all that the stranger shall
call upon thee for, that all the nations may know thy name, and fear thee,
as [do] thy people Israel, and may know that thy name has been called on
this house which I have builded.
8:44 [If it be] that thy people shall go forth to war against their enemies
in the way by which thou shalt turn them, and pray in the name of the Lord
toward the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built to
thy name,
8:45 then shalt thou hear from heaven their supplication and their prayer,
and shalt execute judgment for them.
8:46 [If it be] that they shall sin against thee, (for there is not a man
who will not sin,) and thou shalt bring them and deliver them up before
their enemies, and they that take [them] captive shall carry [them] to a
land far or near,
8:47 and they shall turn their hearts in the land whither they have been
carried captives, and turn in the land of their sojourning, and supplicate
thee, saying, We have sinned, we have done unjustly, we have transgressed,
8:48 and they shall turn to thee with all their heart, and with all their
soul, in the land of their enemies whither thou hast carried them captives,
and shall pray to thee toward their land which thou hast given to their
fathers, and the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have
built to thy name:
8:49 then shalt thou hear from heaven thine established dwelling-place,
8:50 and thou shalt be merciful to their unrighteousness wherein they have
trespassed against thee, and according to all their transgressions wherewith
they have transgressed against thee, and thou shalt cause them to be pitied
before them that carried them captives, and they shall have compassion on
them:
8:51 for [they are] thy people and thine inheritance, whom thou broughtest
out of the land of Egypt, out of the midst of the furnace of iron.
8:52 And let thine eyes and thine ears be opened to the supplication of thy
servant, and to the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken to them in
all things for which they shall call upon thee.
8:53 Because thou hast set them apart for an inheritance to thyself out of
all the nations of the earth, as thou spokest by the hand of thy servant
Moses, when thou broughtest our fathers out of the land of Egypt, O Lord
God.-- Then spoke Solomon concerning the house, when he had finished
building it-- He manifested the sun in the heaven: the Lord said he would
dwell in darkness: build thou my house, a beautiful house for thyself to
dwell in anew. Behold, is not this written in the book of the song?
8:54 And it came to pass when Solomon had finished praying to the Lord all
this prayer and supplication, that he rose up from before the altar of the
Lord, [after] having knelt upon his knees, and his hands [were] spread out
towards heaven.
8:55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud
voice, saying,
8:56 Blessed [be] the Lord this day, who has given rest to his people
Israel, according to all that he said: there has not failed one word among
all his good words which he spoke by the hand of his servant Moses.
8:57 May the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers; let him
not desert us nor turn from us,
8:58 that he may turn our hearts toward him to walk in all his ways, and to
keep all his commandments, and his ordinances which he commanded our
fathers.
8:59 And let these words, which I have prayed before the Lord our God, [be]
near to the Lord our God day and night, to maintain the cause of thy
servant, and the cause of thy people Israel for ever.
8:60 that all the nations of the earth may know that the Lord God, he [is]
God, and there is none beside.
8:61 And let our hearts be perfect toward the Lord our God, to walk also
holily in his ordinances, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
8:62 And the king and all the children of Israel offered sacrifice before
the Lord.
8:63 And king Solomon offered for the sacrifices of peace-offering which he
sacrificed to the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and hundred and twenty
thousand sheep: and the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the
house of the Lord.
8:64 In that day the king consecrated the middle of the court in the front
of the house of the Lord; for there he offered the whole-burnt-offering, and
the sacrifices, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar
which was before the Lord [was too] little to bear the whole-burnt-offering
and the sacrifices of peace-offerings.
8:65 And Solomon kept he feast in that day, and all Israel with him, even a
great assembly from the entering in of Hemath to the river of Egypt, before
the Lord our God in the house which he built, eating and drinking, and
rejoicing before the Lord our God seven days.
8:66 And on the eighth day he sent away the people: and they blessed the
king, and each departed to his tabernacle rejoicing, and [their] heart [was]
glad because of the good things which the Lord had done to his servant
David, and to Israel his people. |
8:1 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.
8:2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the
feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
8:3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
8:4 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.
8:5 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.
8:6 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 cherubim.
8:7 For the cherubim spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark,
and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
8:8 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.
8:9 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.
8:10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place,
that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,
8:11 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.
8:12 Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick
darkness.
8:13 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee
to abide in for ever.
8:14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of
Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;)
8:15 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,
8:16 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.
8:17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the
name of the LORD God of Israel.
8:18 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.
8:19 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.
8:20 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.
8:21 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.
8:22 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:
8:23 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:
8:24 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.
8:25 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.
8:26 And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which
thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
8:27 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?
8:28 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:
8:29 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.
8:30 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.
8:31 If any man trespass against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him
to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:
8:32 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.
8:33 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:
8:34 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.
8:35 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:
8:36 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.
8:37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting,
mildew, locust, or if there be caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in
the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
8:38 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:
8:39 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;)
8:40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which
thou gavest unto our fathers.
8:41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but
cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;
8:42 (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;
8:43 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.
8:44 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:
8:45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and
maintain their cause.
8:46 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;
8:47 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;
8:48 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:
8:49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy
dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
8:50 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:
8:51 For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest
forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
8:52 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.
8:53 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.
8:54 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.
8:55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud
voice, saying,
8:56 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.
8:57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not
leave us, nor forsake us:
8:58 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.
8:59 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:
8:60 That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and
that there is none else.
8:61 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.
8:62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the
LORD.
8:63 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.
8:64 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 brazen altar that
was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat
offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
8:65 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.
8:66 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. |