2Chronicles:6
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Then said Solomon ,
The LORD has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness .
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But I have built an house of habitation for you ,
and a place for your 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 has with his hands fulfilled that which he spoke 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 yours heart to build an house for my name ,
you did well in that it was in yours heart :
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Notwithstanding you shall not build the house ;
but your son which shall come forth out of your loins ,
he shall build the house for my name .
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The LORD therefore has performed his word that he has 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 you in the heaven ,
nor in the earth ;
which keep covenant ,
and show mercy unto your servants ,
that walk before you with all their hearts :
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You which have kept with your servant David my father that which you have promised him ;
and spoke with your mouth ,
and have fulfilled it with yours hand ,
as it is this day .
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Now therefore ,
O LORD God of Israel ,
keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him ,
saying ,
There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel ;
yet so that your children take heed to their way to walk in my law ,
as you have walked before me .
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Now then ,
O LORD God of Israel ,
let your word be verified ,
which you have spoken unto your 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 you ;
how much less this house which I have built !
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Have respect therefore to the prayer of your servant ,
and to his supplication ,
O LORD my God ,
to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which your servant prays before you :
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That yours eyes may be open upon this house day and night ,
upon the place whereof you have said that you would put your name there ;
to hearken unto the prayer which your servant prays toward this place .
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Hearken therefore unto the supplications of your servant ,
and of your people Israel ,
which they shall make toward this place :
hear you from your dwelling place ,
even from heaven ;
and when you hear ,
forgive .
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If a man sin against his neighbour ,
and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear ,
and the oath come before yours altar in this house ;
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Then hear you from heaven ,
and do ,
and judge your 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 your people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy ,
because they have sinned against you ;
and shall return and confess your name ,
and pray and make supplication before you in this house ;
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Then hear you from the heavens ,
and forgive the sin of your people Israel ,
and bring them again unto the land which you gave 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 you ;
yet if they pray toward this place ,
and confess your name ,
and turn from their sin ,
when you do afflict them ;
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Then hear you from heaven ,
and forgive the sin of your servants ,
and of your people Israel ,
when you have taught them the good way ,
wherein they should walk ;
and send rain upon your land ,
which you have given unto your 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 whatsoever shall be made of any man ,
or of all your 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 you from heaven your dwelling place ,
and forgive ,
and render unto every man according unto all his ways ,
whose heart you know ; (
for you only know the hearts of the children of men :)
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That they may fear you ,
to walk in your ways ,
so long as they live in the land which you gave unto our fathers .
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Moreover concerning the stranger ,
which is not of your people Israel ,
but has come from a far country for your great name '
s sake ,
and your mighty hand ,
and your stretched out arm ;
if they come and pray in this house ;
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Then hear you from the heavens ,
even from your dwelling place ,
and do according to all that the stranger calls to you for ;
that all people of the earth may know your name ,
and fear you ,
as does your people Israel ,
and may know that this house which I have built is called by your name .
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If your people go out to war against their enemies by the way that you shall send them ,
and they pray unto you toward this city which you have chosen ,
and the house which I have built for your name ;
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Then hear you from the heavens their prayer and their supplication ,
and maintain their cause .
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If they sin against you , (
for there is no man which sins not ,)
and you 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 call to reflect themselves in the land where they are carried captive ,
and turn and pray unto you 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 you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity ,
where they have carried them captives ,
and pray toward their land ,
which you gave unto their fathers ,
and toward the city which you have chosen ,
and toward the house which I have built for your name :
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Then hear you from the heavens ,
even from your dwelling place ,
their prayer and their supplications ,
and maintain their cause ,
and forgive your people which have sinned against you .
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Now ,
my God ,
let ,
I plead to you ,
yours eyes be open ,
and let yours ears be attentive unto the prayer that is made in this place .
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Now therefore arise ,
O LORD God ,
into your resting place ,
you ,
and the ark of your strength :
let your priests ,
O LORD God ,
be clothed with salvation ,
and let your saints rejoice in goodness .
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O LORD God ,
turn not away the face of yours anointed :
remember the mercies of David your servant .
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