VIN(i)
1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers of the sons of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of LORD out of the city of David, whi
2 And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, the seventh month.
3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
4 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent: the priests and the Levites brought them up.
5 King Solomon and the entire congregation of Israel that had assembled to be with him stood in front of the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they were neither counted nor inventoried.
6 The priests brought the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, to the ⌊most holy place⌋, under the wings of the cherubim,
7 For the cherubim spread their wings out over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.
8 The poles extended so far that their ends could be seen from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside. They remain there to this day.
9 There was not anything in the ark except the two tablets of stone which Moses had placed there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites after they went out from the land of Egypt.
10 When the priests went out from the holy place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD.
11 and the priests could not stand to do their service because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
12 Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said that he would dwell in the thick cloud.
13 I have certainly built a lofty house for you, a place for you to live forever."
14 King Solomon turned to face the people standing there. He asked God's blessing on them.
15 And he said, "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which hath fulfilled with his hand, that he spake with his mouth unto David my father, saying,
16 'From the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city among any of the tribes of Israel, to build a house, that my name might be there: But I have chosen David to be ruler over my people Israel.'
17 "My father David wanted to build a temple for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
18 And the LORD said to my father David, Because it was in your heart to build a house to My name, you did well that it was in your heart.
19 Nevertheless, you are not to build the temple, but your son who will be born to you shall build a temple for my name.'
20 the LORD has carried out his promise which he had made; I have risen in place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel as the LORD promised, and I have built the house for the name of the LORD the God of Israel.
21 I have provided a place there for the ark, in which is the covenant which the LORD made with our ancestors when He brought them out of the land of Egypt."
22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread forth his hands toward heaven.
23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keep covenant and mercy with your servants that walk before you with all their heart:
24 And you have kept the word which you gave to your servant David, my father; with your mouth you said it and with your hand you have made it come true this day.
25 Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, There will not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.
26 »So now, O God of Israel, let your word come true that you promised to my father David, your servant.
27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain you. How much less this house that I have built!
28 Pay attention to the prayer of your servant and to his request, LORD my God, and listen to the cry and prayer that your servant is praying in your presence today.
29 that your eyes be open toward this house night and day - toward the place of which you say, My name is there: to hearken to the prayer your servant prays toward this place:
30 Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.
31 "If a man should sin against his neighbor and he is required to take an oath, and he then comes to take an oath in front of your altar in this temple,
32 then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
33 When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray, and make supplication unto you in this house:
34 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.
35 When the heavens are 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, because thou hast afflicted them;
36 then hear in the heavens and forgive the sin of your servants and of your people Yisra El to direct them the good way to walk and give rain on the land you gave to your people for an inheritance.
37 When there is famine in the land or pestilence or blasting or mildew or locusts or caterpillars, if their enemy besieges them in the land of their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
38 Whatsoever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall know every man the affliction of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
39 then hear from heaven, the place where you reside, and forgive, repaying each person according to all of his ways, since you know their hearts for you alone know the hearts of all human beings
40 that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
41 Also for the foreigner who is not from your people Israel, and he comes from a distant land because of your name,
42 (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays toward this house;
43 then hear in heaven where you reside, and do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the people of the earth may know your name, fear you as do your people Israel, and so they may know that this temple that I have built is called by your name.
44 »When your people go to war against their enemies, they pray to you, O the LORD, toward the city you have chosen and the temple I built for your name.
45 then hear in Heaven their prayer and their cry, and maintain their cause.
46 "If they sin against you (for there is not a person who does not sin) and you are angry with them and you give them to an enemy and they take them captive to the land of the enemy far or near,
47 yet if they shall think within themselves in the land where they are carried captives, and repent, and pray to You in the land of their captors saying, We have sinned and have done perversely, we have done wickedly,
48 and return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who captured them; and pray to you toward the land you gave their fathers - the city you chose and the house I built for your name:
49 then in heaven, the place where you live, hear their prayer for mercy. Do what is right for them.
50 »Forgive your people, who have sinned against you. Forgive all their wrongs when they rebelled against you. Cause those who captured them to have mercy on them.
51 (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace);
52 Let your eyes be open to your servant's prayer for grace and to the prayer of your people Israel, hearing them when their cry comes to you.
53 "You the LORD set them apart from all the people of the world. They are your own as you promised through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt."
54 When Solomon had finished all this prayer and supplication to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord [for he had kneeled down on his knees and spread forth his hands towards heaven]
55 He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
56 "Blessed is the LORD, who has given security to his people Israel, just as he promised. Not one of his promises has failed to come about that he gave through his servant Moses.
57 May the LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us, nor forsake us;
58 but that he bow our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, ordinances and customs which he commanded our fathers.
59 and these words of mine which I have prayed before the LORD be near to the LORD our God by day and by night, to maintain the cause of His servant, and the cause of His people Israel, the matter of each day in its day;
60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is no other.
61 "Let your hearts be committed to the LORD our God. Then you will live by his laws and keep his commands as you have today."
62 ¶ Then the king and all Israel with him, offered sacrifices before the LORD.
63 Solomon sacrificed the fellowship offerings which he offered to the LORD: twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep; and the king and all of the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.
64 On that day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard before the house of the LORD because he offered there the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the fellowship offerings because the bronze altar that was in the presence of the LORD was too small to hold the burnt offerings and the grain offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings.
65 Solomon held the festival at that time and all of Israel with him, a great assembly from Lebo Hamath up to the wadi of Egypt before the LORD our God, for seven days and seven days, a total of fourteen days.
66 On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king, and went to their tents rejoicing and glad of heart for all the good that the LORD had done to His servant David, and to His people Israel.