6Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said that he would reside in thick darkness.H559H8010H3068H559H7931H6205 2I have built you an exalted house, a place for you to reside 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 my father David, saying,H559H1288H3068H430H3478H3027H4390H1696H6310H1H1732H559 5'Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any of the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, so that my name might be there, and I chose no one as ruler over my people Israel;H3117H3318H5971H776H4714H977H5892H7626H3478H1129H1004H8034H977H376H5057H5971H3478 6but I have chosen Jerusalem in order that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.'H977H3389H8034H977H1732H5971H3478 7My father David had it in mind to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.H3824H1732H1H1129H1004H8034H3068H430H3478 8But the LORD said to my father David, 'You did well to consider building a house for my name;H3068H559H1732H1H3824H1129H1004H8034H2895H3824 9nevertheless you shall not 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 succeeded 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.H3068H6965H1697H1696H6965H1732H1H3427H3678H3478H3068H1696H1129H1004H8034H3068H430H3478 11There I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that he made with the people of Israel."H8033H7760H727H1285H3068H3772H1121H3478 12Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of the whole 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 the whole assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven.H8010H6213H5178H3595H2568H520H753H2568H520H7341H7969H520H6967H5414H8432H5835H5975H1288H1290H6951H3478H6566H3709H8064 14He said, "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant in steadfast love with your servants who walk before you with all their heart—H559H3068H430H3478H430H8064H776H8104H1285H2617H5650H1980H6440H3820 15you who have kept for your servant, my father David, what you promised to him. Indeed, you promised with your mouth and this day have fulfilled with your hand.H8104H5650H1732H1H1696H1696H6310H4390H3027H3117 16Therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for your servant, my father David, that which you promised him, saying, 'There shall never fail you a successor before me to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children keep to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.'H3068H430H3478H8104H5650H1732H1H1696H559H3772H376H6440H3427H3678H3478H7535H1121H8104H1870H3212H8451H1980H6440 17Therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you promised to your servant David.H3068H430H3478H1697H539H1696H5650H1732 18"But will God indeed reside with mortals on earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!H430H552H3427H120H776H8064H8064H8064H3557H1004H1129 19Regard your servant's prayer and his plea, O LORD my God, heeding the cry and the prayer that your servant prays to you.H6437H8605H5650H8467H3068H430H8085H7440H8605H5650H6419H6440 20May your eyes be open day and night toward this house, the place where you promised to set your name, and may you heed the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.H5869H6605H1004H3119H3915H4725H559H7760H8034H8085H8605H5650H6419H4725 21And hear the plea of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place; may you hear from heaven your dwelling place; hear and forgive.H8085H8469H5650H5971H3478H6419H4725H8085H3427H4725H8064H8085H5545 22"If someone sins against another and is required to take an oath and comes and swears before your altar in this house,H376H2398H7453H423H5375H422H423H935H6440H4196H1004 23may you hear from heaven, and act, and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing their conduct on their own head, and vindicating those who are in the right by rewarding them in accordance with their righteousness.H8085H8064H6213H8199H5650H7725H7563H5414H1870H7218H6663H6662H5414H6666 24"When your people Israel, having sinned against you, are defeated before an enemy but turn again to you, confess your name, pray and plead with you in this house,H5971H3478H5062H6440H341H2398H7725H3034H8034H6419H2603H6440H1004 25may you 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 ancestors.H8085H8064H5545H2403H5971H3478H7725H127H5414H1 26"When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, and then they pray toward this place, confess your name, and turn from their sin, because you punish them,H8064H6113H4306H2398H6419H4725H3034H8034H7725H2403H6031 27may you hear in heaven, forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send down 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 plague, blight, mildew, locust, or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in any of the settlements of the lands; whatever suffering, whatever sickness there is;H7458H776H1698H7711H3420H697H2625H341H6887H8179H776H5061H4245 29whatever prayer, whatever plea from any individual or from all your people Israel, all knowing their own suffering and their own sorrows so that they stretch out their hands toward this house;H8605H8467H120H5971H3478H376H3045H5061H4341H6566H3709H1004 30may you hear from heaven, your dwelling place, forgive, and render to all whose heart you know, according to all their ways, for only you know the human heart.H8085H8064H3427H4349H5545H5414H376H1870H3824H3045H3045H3824H1121H120 31Thus may they fear you and walk in your ways all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our ancestors.H3372H3212H1870H3117H2416H6440H127H5414H1 32"Likewise when foreigners, who are not of your people Israel, come from a distant land because of your great name, and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm, when they come and pray toward this house,H5237H5971H3478H935H7350H776H1419H8034H2389H3027H5186H2220H935H6419H1004 33may you hear from heaven your dwelling place, and do whatever the foreigners ask of 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 your name has been invoked on this house that I have built.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 37then if they come to their senses in the land to which they have been taken captive, and repent, and plead with you in the land of their captivity, saying, 'We have sinned, and have done wrong; we have acted wickedly';H7725H3824H776H7617H7725H2603H776H7628H559H2398H5753H7561 38if they repent with all their heart and soul in the land of their captivity, to which they were taken captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their ancestors, 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, 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 prayer from this place.H430H5869H6605H241H7183H8605H4725 41"Now rise up, 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 faithful rejoice in your goodness.H6965H3068H430H5118H727H5797H3548H3068H430H3847H8668H2623H8055H2896 42O LORD God, do not reject your anointed one. Remember your steadfast love for your servant David."H3068H430H7725H6440H4899H2142H2617H1732H5650
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