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Chapter 6
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Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell
in the thick darkness. |
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But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and
a place for thy dwelling for ever. |
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And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation
of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood. |
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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, |
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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: |
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But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there;
and have chosen David to be over my people Israel. |
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Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an
house for the name of the LORD God of Israel. |
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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: |
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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. |
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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. |
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And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant
of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel. |
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And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence
of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his
hands: |
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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. |
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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: |
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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. |
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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. |
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Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified,
which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David. |
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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! |
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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: |
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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. |
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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. |
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If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid
upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine
altar in this house; |
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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. |
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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; |
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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. |
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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; |
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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. |
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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: |
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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: |
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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:) |
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That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long
as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers. |
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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; |
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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. |
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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; |
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Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their
supplication, and maintain their cause. |
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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; |
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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; |
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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: |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed:
remember the mercies of David thy servant. |
