2Chronicles:6

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* Then Solomon spoke , LORD has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness . * But I have built for thee a house of habitation , and a place for thee to dwell in forever . * And the king turned his face , and blessed all the assembly of Israel . And all the assembly of Israel stood . * And he said , Blessed be LORD , the God of Israel , who spoke with his mouth to David my father , and has with his hands fulfilled it , saying , * Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt , I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in that my name might be there . Neither did I choose any man to be ruler over my people Israel . * But I have chosen Jerusalem that my name might be there . And have chosen David to be over my people Israel . * Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of LORD , the God of Israel . * But LORD said to David my father , Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house for my name , thou did well that it was in thy heart . * Nevertheless thou shall not build the house , but thy son who shall come forth out of thy loins , he shall build the house for my name . * And LORD has performed his word that he spoke . For I have risen up in the place of David my father , and sit on the throne of Israel , as LORD promised , and have built the house for the name of LORD , the God of Israel . * And there I have set the ark in which is the covenant of LORD , which he made with the sons of Israel . * And he stood before the altar of LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel , and spread forth his hands . * For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold , 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 knelt down upon his knees before all the assembly of Israel * And he said , O LORD , the God of Israel , there is no God like thee , in heaven , or on earth , who keep covenant and loving kindness with thy servants , who walk before thee with all their heart , * who have kept with thy servant David my father that which thou promised him . Yea , thou spoke with thy mouth , and have fulfilled it with thy hand , as it is this day . * Now therefore , O LORD , the God of Israel , keep with thy servant David my father that which thou have promised him , saying , There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel , if only thy sons take heed to th * Now therefore , O LORD , the God of Israel , let thy word be verified , which thou spoke to thy servant David . * 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 ! * Yet have thou respect to the prayer of thy servant , and to his supplication , O LORD my God , to hearken to the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prays before thee , * that thine eyes may be open toward this house day and night , even toward the place of which thou have said that thou would put thy name there , to hearken to the prayer which thy servant shall pray toward this place . * And hearken thou to the supplications of thy servant , and of thy people Israel , when they shall pray toward this place . Yea , hear thou from thy dwelling-place , even from heaven , and when thou hear forgive . * If a man sins against his neighbor , and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear , and he comes [and ] swears before thine altar in this house , * then hear thou from heaven , and do , and judge thy servants , requiting the wicked , to bring his way upon his own head , and justifying the righteous , to give him according to his righteousness . * And if thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy because they have sinned against thee , and shall turn again and confess thy name , and pray and make supplication before thee in this house , * then hear thou from heaven , and forgive the sin of thy people Israel , and bring them again to the land which thou gave to them and to their fathers . * 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 when thou do afflict them , * then hear thou in heaven , and forgive the sin of thy servants , and of thy people Israel , when thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk , and send rain upon thy land , which thou have given to thy people for an inheritanc * If there be in the land famine , if there be pestilence , if there be blight or mildew , locust or caterpillar , if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities , whatever plague or whatever sickness there be , * whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man , or by all thy people Israel , who shall know every man his own plague and his own sorrow , and shall spread forth his hands toward this house , * then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling-place and forgive , and render to every man according to all his ways , whose heart thou know , (for thou , even thou only , know the hearts of the sons of men ), * that they may fear thee , to walk in thy ways so long as they live in the land which thou gave to our fathers . * Moreover concerning the foreigner , who is not of thy people Israel , when he shall come from a far country for thy great name 's sake , and thy mighty hand , and thine outstretched arm , when they shall come and pray toward this house , * then hear thou from heaven , even from thy dwelling-place , and do according to all that the foreigner calls to thee for , that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name , and fear thee , as do thy people Israel , and that they may * If thy people go out to battle against their enemies , by whatever way thou shall send them , and they pray to thee toward this city which thou have chosen , and the house which I have built for thy name , * then hear thou from heaven their prayer and their supplication , and maintain their cause . * If they sin against thee (for there is no man that sins not ), and thou be angry with them , and deliver them to the enemy , so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near , * yet if they shall rethink themselves in the land where they are carried captive , and turn again , and make supplication to thee in the land of their captivity , saying , We have sinned , we have done perversely , and have dealt wickedly * if they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity where they have carried them captive , and pray toward their land , which thou gave to their fathers , and the city which thou have cho * then hear thou from heaven , even from thy dwelling-place , their prayer and their supplications , and maintain their case , and forgive thy people who have sinned against thee . * Now , O my God , let , I beseech thee , thine eyes be open , and let thine ears be attendant to the prayer that is made in this place . * 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 sanctified rejoice in goodness . * O LORD God , do not turn away the face of thine anointed . Remember [thy ] loving kindnesses to David thy servant .

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