2CH-6:1 Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would
dwell in the thick darkness.
2CH-6:2 But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a
place for thy dwelling for ever.
2CH-6:3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole
congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.
2CH-6:4 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, who
hath with his hands fulfilled [that] which he spake with his
mouth to my father David, saying,
2CH-6:5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the
land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to
build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I
any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:
2CH-6:6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there;
and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
2CH-6:7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an
house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
2CH-6:8 But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it
was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst
well in that it was in thine heart:
2CH-6:9 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy
son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the
house for my name.
2CH-6:10 The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath
spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am
set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have
built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
2CH-6:11 And in it have I put the ark, wherein [is] the covenant
of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.
2CH-6:12 And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the
presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his
hands:
2CH-6:13 For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, of five cubits
long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set
it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled
down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and
spread forth his hands toward heaven,
2CH-6:14 And said, O LORD God of Israel, [there is] no God like
thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant,
and [showest] mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee
with all their hearts:
2CH-6:15 Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father
that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth,
and hast fulfilled [it] with thine hand, as [it is] this day.
2CH-6:16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy
servant David my father that which thou hast promised him,
saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon
the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to
their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.
2CH-6:17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be
verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
2CH-6:18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth?
behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee;
how much less this house which I have built!
2CH-6:19 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant,
and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry
and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:
2CH-6:20 That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and
night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest
put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant
prayeth toward this place.
2CH-6:21 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant,
and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this
place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, [even] from heaven;
and when thou hearest, forgive.
2CH-6:22 If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid
upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar
in this house;
2CH-6:23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy
servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon
his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him
according to his righteousness.
2CH-6:24 And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the
enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return
and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee
in this house;
2CH-6:25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of
thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou
gavest to them and to their fathers.
2CH-6:26 When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain,
because they have sinned against thee; [yet] if they pray toward
this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when
thou dost afflict them;
2CH-6:27 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy
servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them
the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy
land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.
2CH-6:28 If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence,
if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if
their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land;
whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness [there be]:
2CH-6:29 [Then] what prayer [or] what supplication soever shall
be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one
shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread
forth his hands in this house:
2CH-6:30 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and
forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways,
whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of
the children of men:)
2CH-6:31 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long
as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
2CH-6:32 Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy
people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great
name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if
they come and pray in this house;
2CH-6:33 Then hear thou from the heavens, [even] from 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, and fear thee, as [doth] thy people Israel, and may know
that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
2CH-6:34 If thy people go out to war against their enemies by
the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee
toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I
have built for thy name;
2CH-6:35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their
supplication, and maintain their cause.
2CH-6:36 If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man which
sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over
before [their] enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a
land far off or near;
2CH-6:37 Yet [if] they bethink themselves in the land whither
they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the
land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done
amiss, and have dealt wickedly;
2CH-6:38 If they return to thee with all their heart and with
all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have
carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou
gavest unto their fathers, and [toward] the city which thou hast
chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
2CH-6:39 Then hear thou from the heavens, [even] from thy
dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and
maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned
against thee.
2CH-6:40 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open,
and [let] thine ears [be] attent unto the prayer [that is made]
in this place.
2CH-6:41 Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place,
thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God,
be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in
goodness.
2CH-6:42 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed:
remember the mercies of David thy servant.
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