2Chronicles 6:9 - Prayer Tents

6Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud;H559H8010H3068H559H7931H6205

2I have built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell forever."H1129H1004H2073H4349H3427H5769

3While the whole assembly of Israel was standing there, the king turned around and blessed them.H4428H5437H6440H1288H6951H3478H6951H3478H5975

4Then he said: "Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his hands has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to my father David. For he said,H559H1288H3068H430H3478H3027H4390H1696H6310H1H1732H559

5'Since the day I brought my people out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city in any tribe of Israel to have a temple built for my Name to be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be the leader over my people Israel.H3117H3318H5971H776H4714H977H5892H7626H3478H1129H1004H8034H977H376H5057H5971H3478

6But now I have chosen Jerusalem for my Name to be there, and I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.'H977H3389H8034H977H1732H5971H3478

7"My father David had it in his heart to build a temple for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.H3824H1732H1H1129H1004H8034H3068H430H3478

8But the LORD said to my father David, 'Because it was in your heart to build a temple for my Name, you did well to have this in your heart.H3068H559H1732H1H3824H1129H1004H8034H2895H3824

9Nevertheless, you are not the one to build the temple, but your son, who is your own flesh and blood—he is the one who will build the temple for my Name.'H7535H1129H1004H1121H3318H2504H1129H1004H8034

10"The LORD has kept the promise he made. I have succeeded David my father and now I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the LORD promised, and I have built the temple for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.H3068H6965H1697H1696H6965H1732H1H3427H3678H3478H3068H1696H1129H1004H8034H3068H430H3478

11There I have placed 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 front of the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.H5975H6440H4196H3068H6951H3478H6566H3709

13Now he had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had placed it in the center of the outer court. He stood on the platform and then knelt down before 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—you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way.H559H3068H430H3478H430H8064H776H8104H1285H2617H5650H1980H6440H3820

15You have kept your promise to your servant David my father; with your mouth you have promised and with your hand you have fulfilled it—as it is today.H8104H5650H1732H1H1696H1696H6310H4390H3027H3117

16"Now LORD, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father the promises you made to him when you said, 'You shall never fail to have a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons are careful in all they do to walk before me according to my law, as you have done.'H3068H430H3478H8104H5650H1732H1H1696H559H3772H376H6440H3427H3678H3478H7535H1121H8104H1870H3212H8451H1980H6440

17And now, O LORD, God of Israel, let your word that you promised your servant David come true.H3068H430H3478H1697H539H1696H5650H1732

18"But will God really dwell on earth with men? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!H430H552H3427H120H776H8064H8064H8064H3557H1004H1129

19Yet give attention to your servant's prayer and his plea for mercy, O LORD my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence.H6437H8605H5650H8467H3068H430H8085H7440H8605H5650H6419H6440

20May your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, this place of which you said you would put your Name there. May you hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place.H5869H6605H1004H3119H3915H4725H559H7760H8034H8085H8605H5650H6419H4725

21Hear the supplications of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.H8085H8469H5650H5971H3478H6419H4725H8085H3427H4725H8064H8085H5545

22"When a man wrongs his neighbor and is required to take an oath and he comes and swears the oath before your altar in this temple,H376H2398H7453H423H5375H422H423H935H6440H4196H1004

23then hear from heaven and act. Judge between your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing down on his own head what he has done. Declare the innocent not guilty and so establish his innocence.H8085H8064H6213H8199H5650H7725H7563H5414H1870H7218H6663H6662H5414H6666

24"When your people Israel have been defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against you and when they turn back and confess your name, praying and making supplication before you in this temple,H5971H3478H5062H6440H341H2398H7725H3034H8034H6419H2603H6440H1004

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

26"When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and when they pray toward this place and confess your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them,H8064H6113H4306H2398H6419H4725H3034H8034H7725H2403H6031

27then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them the right way to live, and send rain on the land you gave your people for an inheritance.H8085H8064H5545H2403H5650H5971H3478H3384H2896H1870H3212H5414H4306H776H5414H5971H5159

28"When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when enemies besiege them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come,H7458H776H1698H7711H3420H697H2625H341H6887H8179H776H5061H4245

29and when a prayer or plea is made by any of your people Israel—each one aware of his afflictions and pains, and spreading out his hands toward this temple—H8605H8467H120H5971H3478H376H3045H5061H4341H6566H3709H1004

30then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Forgive, and deal with each man according to all he does, since you know his heart (for you alone know the hearts of men),H8085H8064H3427H4349H5545H5414H376H1870H3824H3045H3045H3824H1121H120

31so that they will fear you and walk in your ways all the time they live in the land you gave our fathers.H3372H3212H1870H3117H2416H6440H127H5414H1

32"As for the foreigner who does not belong to your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,H5237H5971H3478H935H7350H776H1419H8034H2389H3027H5186H2220H935H6419H1004

33then hear from heaven, your dwelling place, and do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your own people Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears your Name.H8085H8064H3427H4349H6213H5237H7121H5971H776H3045H8034H3372H5971H3478H3045H1004H1129H7121H8034

34"When your people go to war against their enemies, wherever you send them, and when they pray to you toward this city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name,H5971H3318H4421H341H1870H7971H6419H1870H5892H977H1004H1129H8034

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

36"When they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you become angry with them and give them over to the enemy, who takes them captive to a land far away or near;H2398H120H2398H599H5414H6440H341H7617H7617H776H7350H7138

37and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity and say, 'We have sinned, we have done wrong and acted wickedly';H7725H3824H776H7617H7725H2603H776H7628H559H2398H5753H7561

38and if they turn back to you with all their heart and soul in the land of their captivity where they were taken, and pray toward the land you gave their fathers, toward the city you have chosen and toward the temple I have built for your Name;H7725H3820H5315H776H7628H7617H6419H1870H776H5414H1H5892H977H1004H1129H8034

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

40"Now, my God, may your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.H430H5869H6605H241H7183H8605H4725

41"Now arise, O LORD God, and come to your resting place, you and the ark of your might. May your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, may your saints rejoice in your goodness.H6965H3068H430H5118H727H5797H3548H3068H430H3847H8668H2623H8055H2896

42O LORD God, do not reject your anointed one. Remember the great love promised to David your servant."H3068H430H7725H6440H4899H2142H2617H1732H5650