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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,

as the waters cover the sea.

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1KI-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.

1KI-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.

1KI-8:3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took

up the ark.

1KI-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.

1KI-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.

1KI-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 cherubims.

1KI-8:7 For the cherubims spread forth [their] two wings over

the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the

staves thereof above.

1KI-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.

1KI-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.

1KI-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,

1KI-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.

1KI-8:12 Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell

in the thick darkness.

1KI-8:13 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a

settled place for thee to abide in for ever.

1KI-8:14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the

congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel

stood;)

1KI-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,

1KI-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.

1KI-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.

1KI-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.

1KI-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.

1KI-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.

1KI-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.

1KI-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:

1KI-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:

1KI-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.

1KI-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.

1KI-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.

1KI-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?

1KI-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:

1KI-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.

1KI-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.

1KI-8:31 If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath

be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before

thine altar in this house:

1KI-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.

1KI-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:

1KI-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.

1KI-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:

1KI-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.

1KI-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];

1KI-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:

1KI-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;)

1KI-8:40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in

the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

1KI-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;

1KI-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;

1KI-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.

1KI-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:

1KI-8:45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their

supplication, and maintain their cause.

1KI-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;

1KI-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;

1KI-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:

1KI-8:49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in

heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

1KI-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:

1KI-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:

1KI-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.

1KI-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.

1KI-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.

1KI-8:55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of

Israel with a loud voice, saying,

1KI-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.

1KI-8:57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers:

let him not leave us, nor forsake us:

1KI-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.

1KI-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:

1KI-8:60 That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD

[is] God, [and that there is] none else.

1KI-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.

1KI-8:62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered

sacrifice before the LORD.

1KI-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.

1KI-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.

1KI-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.

1KI-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.