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Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon ,
because he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father ,
for Hiram had always loved David .
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Then Solomon sent to Hiram ,
saying :
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You know how my father David could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the wars which were fought against him on every side ,
until the LORD put his foes under the soles of his feet .
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But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side ;
there is neither adversary nor evil occurrence .
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And behold ,
I propose to build a house for the name of the LORD my God ,
as the LORD spoke to my father David ,
saying , "
Your son ,
whom I will set on your throne in your place ,
he shall build the house for My name ."
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Now therefore ,
command that they cut down cedars for me from Lebanon ;
and my servants will be with your servants ,
and I will pay you wages for your servants according to whatever you say .
For you know there is none among us who has skill to cut timber like the Sidonians .
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So it was ,
when Hiram heard the words of Solomon ,
that he rejoiced greatly and said ,
4 Blessed be the LORD this day ,
for He has given David a wise son over this great people !
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Then Hiram sent to Solomon ,
saying :
4 I have considered the message which you sent me ,
and I will do all you desire concerning the cedar and cypress logs .
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My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea ;
I will float them in rafts by sea to the place you indicate to me ,
and will have them broken apart there ;
then you can take them away .
And you shall fulfill my desire by giving food for my household .
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Then Hiram gave Solomon cedar and cypress logs according to all his desire .
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And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand kors of wheat as food for his household ,
and twenty kors of pressed oil .
Thus Solomon gave to Hiram year by year .
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So the LORD gave Solomon wisdom ,
as He had promised him ;
and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon ,
and the two of them made a treaty together .
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Then King Solomon raised up a labor force out of all Israel ;
and the labor force was thirty thousand men .
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And he sent them to Lebanon ,
ten thousand a month in shifts :
they were one month in Lebanon and two months at home ;
Adoniram was in charge of the labor force .
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Solomon had seventy thousand who carried burdens ,
and eighty thousand who quarried stone in the mountains ,
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besides three thousand three hundred from the chiefs of Solomon '
s deputies ,
who supervised the people who labored in the work .
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And the king commanded them to quarry large stones ,
costly stones ,
and hewn stones ,
to lay the foundation of the temple .
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So Solomon '
s builders ,
Hiram '
s builders ,
and the Gebalites quarried them ;
and they prepared timber and stones to build the temple .
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And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt ,
in the fourth year of Solomon '
s reign over Israel ,
in the month of Ziv ,
which is the second month ,
that he began to build the house of the LORD .
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Now the house which King Solomon built for the LORD ,
its length was sixty cubits ,
its width twenty ,
and its height thirty cubits .
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The vestibule in front of the sanctuary of the house was twenty cubits long across the width of the house ,
and the width of the vestibule extended ten cubits from the front of the house .
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And he made for the house windows with beveled frames .
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Against the wall of the temple he built chambers all around ,
against the walls of the temple ,
all around the sanctuary and the inner sanctuary .
Thus he made side chambers all around it .
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The lowest chamber was five cubits wide ,
the middle was six cubits wide ,
and the third was seven cubits wide ;
for he made narrow ledges around the outside of the temple ,
so that the support beams would not be fastened into the walls of the temple .
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And the temple ,
when it was being built ,
was built with stone finished at the quarry ,
so that no hammer or chisel or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built .
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The doorway for the middle story was on the right side of the temple .
They went up by stairs to the middle story ,
and from the middle to the third .
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So he built the temple and finished it ,
and he paneled the temple with beams and boards of cedar .
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And he built side chambers against the entire temple ,
each five cubits high ;
they were attached to the temple with cedar beams .
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Then the word of the LORD came to Solomon ,
saying :
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Concerning this temple which you are building ,
if you walk in My statutes ,
execute My judgments ,
keep all My commandments ,
and walk in them ,
then I will perform My word with you ,
which I spoke to your father David .
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And I will dwell among the children of Israel ,
and will not forsake My people Israel ."
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So Solomon built the temple and finished it .
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And he built the inside walls of the temple with cedar boards ;
from the floor of the temple to the ceiling he paneled the inside with wood ;
and he covered the floor of the temple with planks of cypress .
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Then he built the twenty-cubit room at the rear of the temple ,
from floor to ceiling ,
with cedar boards ;
he built it inside as the inner sanctuary ,
as the Most Holy Place .
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And in front of it the temple sanctuary was forty cubits long .
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The inside of the temple was cedar ,
carved with ornamental buds and open flowers .
All was cedar ;
there was no stone to be seen .
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And he prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple ,
to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there .
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The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long ,
twenty cubits wide ,
and twenty cubits high .
He overlaid it with pure gold ,
and overlaid the altar of cedar .
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So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold .
He stretched gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary ,
and overlaid it with gold .
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The whole temple he overlaid with gold ,
until he had finished all the temple ;
also he overlaid with gold the entire altar that was by the inner sanctuary .
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Inside the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood ,
each ten cubits high .
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One wing of the cherub was five cubits ,
and the other wing of the cherub five cubits :
ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other .
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And the other cherub was ten cubits ;
both cherubim were of the same size and shape .
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The height of one cherub was ten cubits ,
and so was the other cherub .
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Then he set the cherubim inside the inner room ;
and they stretched out the wings of the cherubim so that the wing of the one touched one wall ,
and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall .
And their wings touched each other in the middle of the room .
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Also he overlaid the cherubim with gold .
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Then he carved all the walls of the temple all around ,
both the inner and outer sanctuaries ,
with carved figures of cherubim ,
palm trees ,
and open flowers .
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And the floor of the temple he overlaid with gold ,
both the inner and outer sanctuaries .
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For the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood ;
the lintel and doorposts were one-fifth of the wall .
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The two doors were of olive wood ;
and he carved on them figures of cherubim ,
palm trees ,
and open flowers ,
and overlaid them with gold ;
and he spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees .
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So for the door of the sanctuary he also made doorposts of olive wood ,
one-fourth of the wall .
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And the two doors were of cypress wood ;
two panels comprised one folding door ,
and two panels comprised the other folding door .
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Then he carved cherubim ,
palm trees ,
and open flowers on them ,
and overlaid them with gold applied evenly on the carved work .
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And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams .
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In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid ,
in the month of Ziv .
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And in the eleventh year ,
in the month of Bul ,
which is the eighth month ,
the house was finished in all its details and according to all its plans .
So he was seven years in building it .
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But Solomon took thirteen years to build his own house ;
so he finished all his house .
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He also built the House of the Forest of Lebanon ;
its length was one hundred cubits ,
its width fifty cubits ,
and its height thirty cubits ,
with four rows of cedar pillars ,
and cedar beams on the pillars .
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And it was paneled with cedar above the beams that were on forty-five pillars ,
fifteen to a row .
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There were windows with beveled frames in three rows ,
and window was opposite window in three tiers .
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And all the doorways and doorposts had rectangular frames ;
and window was opposite window in three tiers .
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He also made the Hall of Pillars :
its length was fifty cubits ,
and its width thirty cubits ;
and in front of them was a portico with pillars ,
and a canopy was in front of them .
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Then he made a hall for the throne ,
the Hall of Judgment ,
where he might judge ;
and it was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling .
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And the house where he dwelt had another court inside the hall ,
of like workmanship .
Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh '
s daughter ,
whom he had taken as wife .
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All these were of costly stones cut to size ,
trimmed with saws ,
inside and out ,
from the foundation to the eaves ,
and also on the outside to the great court .
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The foundation was of costly stones ,
large stones ,
some ten cubits and some eight cubits .
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And above were costly stones ,
hewn to size ,
and cedar wood .
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The great court was enclosed with three rows of hewn stones and a row of cedar beams .
So were the inner court of the house of the LORD and the vestibule of the temple .
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Now King Solomon sent and brought Huram from Tyre .
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He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali ,
and his father was a man of Tyre ,
a bronze worker ;
he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill in working with all kinds of bronze work .
So he came to King Solomon and did all his work .
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And he cast two pillars of bronze ,
each one eighteen cubits high ,
and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of each .
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Then he made two capitals of cast bronze ,
to set on the tops of the pillars .
The height of one capital was five cubits ,
and the height of the other capital was five cubits .
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He made a lattice network ,
with wreaths of chainwork ,
for the capitals which were on top of the pillars :
seven chains for one capital and seven for the other capital .
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So he made the pillars ,
and two rows of pomegranates above the network all around to cover the capitals that were on top ;
and thus he did for the other capital .
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The capitals which were on top of the pillars in the hall were in the shape of lilies ,
four cubits .
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The capitals on the two pillars also had pomegranates above ,
by the convex surface which was next to the network ;
and there were two hundred such pomegranates in rows on each of the capitals all around .
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Then he set up the pillars by the vestibule of the temple ;
he set up the pillar on the right and called its name Jachin ,
and he set up the pillar on the left and called its name Boaz .
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The tops of the pillars were in the shape of lilies .
So the work of the pillars was finished .
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And he made the Sea of cast bronze ,
ten cubits from one brim to the other ;
it was completely round .
Its height was five cubits ,
and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference .
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Below its brim were ornamental buds encircling it all around ,
ten to a cubit ,
all the way around the Sea .
The ornamental buds were cast in two rows when it was cast .
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It stood on twelve oxen :
three looking toward the north ,
three looking toward the west ,
three looking toward the south ,
and three looking toward the east ;
the Sea was set upon them ,
and all their back parts pointed inward .
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It was a handbreadth thick ;
and its brim was shaped like the brim of a cup ,
like a lily blossom .
It contained two thousand baths .
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He also made ten carts of bronze ;
four cubits was the length of each cart ,
four cubits its width ,
and three cubits its height .
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And this was the design of the carts :
They had panels ,
and the panels were between frames ;
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on the panels that were between the frames were lions ,
oxen ,
and cherubim .
And on the frames was a pedestal on top .
Below the lions and oxen were wreaths of plaited work .
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Every cart had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze ,
and its four feet had supports .
Under the laver were supports of cast bronze beside each wreath .
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Its opening inside the crown at the top was one cubit in diameter ;
and the opening was round ,
shaped like a pedestal ,
one and a half cubits in outside diameter ;
and also on the opening were engravings ,
but the panels were square ,
not round .
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Under the panels were the four wheels ,
and the axles of the wheels were joined to the cart .
The height of a wheel was one and a half cubits .
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The workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel ;
their axle pins ,
their rims ,
their spokes ,
and their hubs were all of cast bronze .
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And there were four supports at the four corners of each cart ;
its supports were part of the cart itself .
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On the top of the cart ,
at the height of half a cubit ,
it was perfectly round .
And on the top of the cart ,
its flanges and its panels were of the same casting .
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On the plates of its flanges and on its panels he engraved cherubim ,
lions ,
and palm trees ,
wherever there was a clear space on each ,
with wreaths all around .
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Thus he made the ten carts .
All of them were of the same mold ,
one measure ,
and one shape .
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Then he made ten lavers of bronze ;
each laver contained forty baths ,
and each laver was four cubits .
On each of the ten carts was a laver .
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And he put five carts on the right side of the house ,
and five on the left side of the house .
He set the Sea on the right side of the house ,
toward the southeast .
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Huram made the lavers and the shovels and the bowls .
So Huram finished doing all the work that he was to do for King Solomon for the house of the LORD :
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the two pillars ,
the two bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the two pillars ;
the two networks covering the two bowl-shaped capitals which were on top of the pillars ;
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four hundred pomegranates for the two networks (
two rows of pomegranates for each network ,
to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the pillars );
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the ten carts ,
and ten lavers on the carts ;
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one Sea ,
and twelve oxen under the Sea ;
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the pots ,
the shovels ,
and the bowls .
All these articles which Huram made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of burnished bronze .
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In the plain of Jordan the king had them cast in clay molds ,
between Succoth and Zaretan .
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And Solomon did not weigh all the articles ,
because there were so many ;
the weight of the bronze was not determined .
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Thus Solomon had all the furnishings made for the house of the LORD :
the altar of gold ,
and the table of gold on which was the showbread ;
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the lampstands of pure gold ,
five on the right side and five on the left in front of the inner sanctuary ,
with the flowers and the lamps and the wick-trimmers of gold ;
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the basins ,
the trimmers ,
the bowls ,
the ladles ,
and the censers of pure gold ;
and the hinges of gold ,
both for the doors of the inner room (
the Most Holy Place )
and for the doors of the main hall of the temple .
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So all the work that King Solomon had done for the house of the LORD was finished ;
and Solomon brought in the things which his father David had dedicated :
the silver and the gold and the furnishings .
He put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD .
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Now Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes ,
the chief fathers of the children of Israel ,
to King Solomon in Jerusalem ,
that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the City of David ,
which is Zion .
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Therefore all the men of Israel assembled with King Solomon at the feast in the month of Ethanim ,
which is the seventh month .
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So all the elders of Israel came ,
and the priests took up the ark .
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Then they brought up the ark of the LORD ,
the tabernacle of meeting ,
and all the holy furnishings that were in the tabernacle .
The priests and the Levites brought them up .
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Also King Solomon ,
and all the congregation of Israel who were assembled with him ,
were with him before the ark ,
sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted or numbered for multitude .
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Then the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place ,
into the inner sanctuary of the temple ,
to the Most Holy Place ,
under the wings of the cherubim .
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For the cherubim spread their two wings over the place of the ark ,
and the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles .
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The poles extended so that the ends of the poles could be seen from the holy place ,
in front of the inner sanctuary ;
but they could not be seen from outside .
And they are there to this day .
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Nothing was in the ark except the two tablets 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 .
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And it came to pass ,
when the priests came out of the holy place ,
that the cloud filled the house of the LORD ,
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so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud ;
for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD .
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Then Solomon spoke : "
The LORD said He would dwell in the dark cloud .
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I have surely built You an exalted house ,
And a place for You to dwell in forever ."
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Then the king turned around and blessed the whole assembly of Israel ,
while all the assembly of Israel was standing .
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And he said : "
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel ,
who spoke with His mouth to my father David ,
and with His hand has fulfilled it ,
saying ,
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Since the day that I brought My people Israel out of Egypt ,
I have chosen no city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house ,
that My name might be there ;
but I chose David to be over My people Israel .'
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Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a temple for the name of the LORD God of Israel .
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But the LORD said to my father David , "
Whereas it was in your heart to build a temple for My name ,
you did well that it was in your heart .
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Nevertheless you shall not build the temple ,
but your son who will come from your body ,
he shall build the temple for My name .'
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So the LORD has fulfilled His word which He spoke ;
and I have filled the position of my father David ,
and sit on the throne of Israel ,
as the LORD promised ;
and I have built a temple for the name of the LORD God of Israel .
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And there I have made a place for the ark ,
in which is the covenant of the LORD which He made with our fathers ,
when He brought them out of the land of Egypt ."
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Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel ,
and spread out his hands toward heaven ;
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and he said : "
LORD God of Israel ,
there is no God in heaven above or on earth below like You ,
who keep Your covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts .
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You have kept what You promised Your servant David my father ;
You have both spoken with Your mouth and fulfilled it with Your hand ,
as it is this day .
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Therefore ,
LORD God of Israel ,
now keep what You promised Your servant David my father ,
saying , "
You shall not fail to have a man sit before Me on the throne of Israel ,
only if your sons take heed to their way ,
that they walk before Me as you have walked before Me .'
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And now I pray ,
O God of Israel ,
let Your word come true ,
which You have spoken to Your servant David my father .
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But will God indeed dwell on the earth ?
Behold ,
heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You .
How much less this temple which I have built !
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Yet regard the prayer of Your servant and his supplication ,
O LORD my God ,
and listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You today :
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that Your eyes may be open toward this temple night and day ,
toward the place of which You said , "
My name shall be there ,'
that You may hear the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place .
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And may You hear the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel ,
when they pray toward this place .
Hear in heaven Your dwelling place ;
and when You hear ,
forgive .
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When anyone sins against his neighbor ,
and is forced to take an oath ,
and comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this temple ,
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then hear in heaven ,
and act ,
and judge Your servants ,
condemning the wicked ,
bringing his way on his head ,
and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness .
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When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You ,
and when they turn back to You and confess Your name ,
and pray and make supplication to You in this temple ,
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then hear in heaven ,
and forgive the sin of Your people Israel ,
and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers .
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When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You ,
when they pray toward this place and confess Your name ,
and turn from their sin because You afflict them ,
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then hear in heaven ,
and forgive the sin of Your servants ,
Your people Israel ,
that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk ;
and send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance .
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When there is famine in the land ,
pestilence or blight or mildew ,
locusts or grasshoppers ;
when their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities ;
whatever plague or whatever sickness there is ;
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whatever prayer ,
whatever supplication is made by anyone ,
or by all Your people Israel ,
when each one knows the plague of his own heart ,
and spreads out his hands toward this temple :
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then hear in heaven Your dwelling place ,
and forgive ,
and act ,
and give to everyone according to all his ways ,
whose heart You know (
for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men ),
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that they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You gave to our fathers .
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Moreover ,
concerning a foreigner ,
who is not of Your people Israel ,
but has come from a far country for Your name '
s sake
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for they will hear of Your great name and Your strong hand and Your outstretched arm ),
when he comes and prays toward this temple ,
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hear in heaven Your dwelling place ,
and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You ,
that all peoples of the earth may know Your name and fear You ,
as do Your people Israel ,
and that they may know that this temple which I have built is called by Your name .
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When Your people go out to battle against their enemy ,
wherever You send them ,
and when they pray to the LORD toward the city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name ,
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then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication ,
and maintain their cause .
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When they sin against You (
for there is no one who does not sin ),
and You become angry with them and deliver them to the enemy ,
and they take them captive to the land of the enemy ,
far or near ;
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yet when they come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive ,
and repent ,
and make supplication to You in the land of those who took them captive ,
saying , "
We have sinned and done wrong ,
we have committed wickedness ';
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and when they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who led them away captive ,
and pray to You toward their land which You gave to their fathers ,
the city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name :
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then hear in heaven Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplication ,
and maintain their cause ,
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and forgive Your people who have sinned against You ,
and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You ;
and grant them compassion before those who took them captive ,
that they may have compassion on them
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for they are Your people and Your inheritance ,
whom You brought out of Egypt ,
out of the iron furnace ),
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that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your servant and the supplication of Your people Israel ,
to listen to them whenever they call to You .
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For You separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be Your inheritance ,
as You spoke by Your servant Moses ,
when You brought our fathers out of Egypt ,
O Lord GOD ."
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And so it was ,
when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to the LORD ,
that he arose from before the altar of the LORD ,
from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven .
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Then he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice ,
saying :
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Blessed be the LORD ,
who has given rest to His people Israel ,
according to all that He promised .
There has not failed one word of all His good promise ,
which He promised through His servant Moses .
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May the LORD our God be with us ,
as He was with our fathers .
May He not leave us nor forsake us ,
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that He may incline our hearts to Himself ,
to walk in all His ways ,
and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments ,
which He commanded our fathers .
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And may these words of mine ,
with which I have made supplication before the LORD ,
be near the LORD our God day and night ,
that He may maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel ,
as each day may require ,
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that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God ;
there is no other .
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Let your heart therefore be loyal to the LORD our God ,
to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments ,
as at this day ."
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Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD .
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And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings ,
which he offered to the LORD ,
twenty-two thousand bulls and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep .
So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD .
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On the same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was in front of the house of the LORD ;
for there he offered burnt offerings ,
grain offerings ,
and the fat of the peace offerings ,
because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to receive the burnt offerings ,
the grain offerings ,
and the fat of the peace offerings .
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At that time Solomon held a feast ,
and all Israel with him ,
a great assembly from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of Egypt ,
before the LORD our God ,
seven days and seven more days--fourteen days .
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On the eighth day he sent the people away ;
and they blessed the king ,
and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the good that the LORD had done for His servant David ,
and for Israel His people .
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And it came to pass ,
when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the king '
s house ,
and all Solomon '
s desire which he wanted to do ,
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