mkjv - 1Kings:8:1-21

mkjv@1Kings:8:1 @ And Solomon gathered the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the sons of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, so that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which [is] Zion.

mkjv@1Kings:8:2 @ And all the men of Israel were gathered to king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which [is] the seventh month.

mkjv@1Kings:8:3 @ And all the elders of Israel came in, and the priests took up the ark.

mkjv@1Kings:8:4 @ And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels which [were] in the tabernacle; even those the priests and the Levites brought up.

mkjv@1Kings:8:5 @ And King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel who had assembled to him, [were] with him before the ark sacrificing sheep and oxen which could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.

mkjv@1Kings:8:6 @ And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD into its place, into the holy place of the house, into the Holy of Holies, under the wings of the cherubs.

mkjv@1Kings:8:7 @ For the cherubs spread forth [their] two wings over the place of the ark. And the cherubs covered the ark and the staves of it above.

mkjv@1Kings:8:8 @ And they drew out the staves, so that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy [place], in front of the Holy of Holies. And they were not seen outside. And there they are until today.

mkjv@1Kings:8:9 @ There [was] nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made [a covenant] with the sons of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt.

mkjv@1Kings:8:10 @ And it happened when the priests had come out of the Holy of Holies, the cloud filled the house of the LORD.

mkjv@1Kings:8:11 @ And the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.

mkjv@1Kings:8:12 @ And Solomon said, The LORD said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.

mkjv@1Kings:8:13 @ I have surely built a house of loftiness for You, a settled place for You to abide in forever.

mkjv@1Kings:8:14 @ And the king turned his face around and blessed all the congregation of Israel. And all the congregation of Israel stood.

mkjv@1Kings:8:15 @ And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to David my father, and has fulfilled [it] by His hand, saying,

mkjv@1Kings:8:16 @ From the day that I brought forth My people Israel out of Egypt, I did not choose any city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, so that My name might be in it. But I chose David to be over My people Israel.

mkjv@1Kings:8:17 @ And it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

mkjv@1Kings:8:18 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:8:19 @ Only, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall come out of your loins, he shall build the house to My name.

mkjv@1Kings:8:20 @ And the LORD has performed His word which He spoke, and I have risen up instead of my father David. And I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. And I have built a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

mkjv@1Kings:8:21 @ And [I have] set there 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.