2Chronicles 6:13 - Prayer Tents

Solomon Blesses the People

6Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.H559H8010H3068H559H7931H6205

2But I have built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever."H1129H1004H2073H4349H3427H5769

3Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.H4428H5437H6440H1288H6951H3478H6951H3478H5975

4And he said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying,H559H1288H3068H430H3478H3027H4390H1696H6310H1H1732H559

5'Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, and I chose no man as prince over my people Israel;H3117H3318H5971H776H4714H977H5892H7626H3478H1129H1004H8034H977H376H5057H5971H3478

6but I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.'H977H3389H8034H977H1732H5971H3478

7Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.H3824H1732H1H1129H1004H8034H3068H430H3478

8But the LORD said to David my father, 'Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.H3068H559H1732H1H3824H1129H1004H8034H2895H3824

9Nevertheless, it is not you who shall build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.'H7535H1129H1004H1121H3318H2504H1129H1004H8034

10Now the LORD has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and I have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.H3068H6965H1697H1696H6965H1732H1H3427H3678H3478H3068H1696H1129H1004H8034H3068H430H3478

11And there I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that he made with the people of Israel."H8033H7760H727H1285H3068H3772H1121H3478

Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication

12Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.H5975H6440H4196H3068H6951H3478H6566H3709

13Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the court, and he stood on it. Then he knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven,H8010H6213H5178H3595H2568H520H753H2568H520H7341H7969H520H6967H5414H8432H5835H5975H1288H1290H6951H3478H6566H3709H8064

14and said, "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart,H559H3068H430H3478H430H8064H776H8104H1285H2617H5650H1980H6440H3820

15who have kept with your servant David my father what you declared to him. You spoke with your mouth, and with your hand have fulfilled it this day.H8104H5650H1732H1H1696H1696H6310H4390H3027H3117

16Now therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, 'You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.'H3068H430H3478H8104H5650H1732H1H1696H559H3772H376H6440H3427H3678H3478H7535H1121H8104H1870H3212H8451H1980H6440

17Now therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David.H3068H430H3478H1697H539H1696H5650H1732

18"But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!H430H552H3427H120H776H8064H8064H8064H3557H1004H1129

19Yet have regard to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O LORD my God, listening to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you,H6437H8605H5650H8467H3068H430H8085H7440H8605H5650H6419H6440

20that your eyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where you have promised to set your name, that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.H5869H6605H1004H3119H3915H4725H559H7760H8034H8085H8605H5650H6419H4725

21And listen to the pleas of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen from heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.H8085H8469H5650H5971H3478H6419H4725H8085H3427H4725H8064H8085H5545

22"If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,H376H2398H7453H423H5375H422H423H935H6440H4196H1004

23then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.H8085H8064H6213H8199H5650H7725H7563H5414H1870H7218H6663H6662H5414H6666

24"If your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house,H5971H3478H5062H6440H341H2398H7725H3034H8034H6419H2603H6440H1004

25then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to them and to their fathers.H8085H8064H5545H2403H5971H3478H7725H127H5414H1

26"When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,H8064H6113H4306H2398H6419H4725H3034H8034H7725H2403H6031

27then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.H8085H8064H5545H2403H5650H5971H3478H3384H2896H1870H3212H5414H4306H776H5414H5971H5159

28"If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemies besiege them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,H7458H776H1698H7711H3420H697H2625H341H6887H8179H776H5061H4245

29whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing his own affliction and his own sorrow and stretching out his hands toward this house,H8605H8467H120H5971H3478H376H3045H5061H4341H6566H3709H1004

30then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind,H8085H8064H3427H4349H5545H5414H376H1870H3824H3045H3045H3824H1121H120

31that they may fear you and walk in your ways all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.H3372H3212H1870H3117H2416H6440H127H5414H1

32"Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for the sake of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when he comes and prays toward this house,H5237H5971H3478H935H7350H776H1419H8034H2389H3027H5186H2220H935H6419H1004

33hear from 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 and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.H8085H8064H3427H4349H6213H5237H7121H5971H776H3045H8034H3372H5971H3478H3045H1004H1129H7121H8034

34"If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,H5971H3318H4421H341H1870H7971H6419H1870H5892H977H1004H1129H8034

35then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.H8085H8064H8605H8467H6213H4941

36"If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far or near,H2398H120H2398H599H5414H6440H341H7617H7617H776H7350H7138

37yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity, saying, 'We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,'H7725H3824H776H7617H7725H2603H776H7628H559H2398H5753H7561

38if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their captivity to which they were carried captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,H7725H3820H5315H776H7628H7617H6419H1870H776H5414H1H5892H977H1004H1129H8034

39then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.H8085H8064H3427H4349H8605H8467H6213H4941H5545H5971H2398

40Now, O my God, let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.H430H5869H6605H241H7183H8605H4725

41"And now arise, O LORD God, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might. Let your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in your goodness.H6965H3068H430H5118H727H5797H3548H3068H430H3847H8668H2623H8055H2896

42O LORD God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one! Remember your steadfast love for David your servant."H3068H430H7725H6440H4899H2142H2617H1732H5650