2Chronicles:7-8
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Now when Solomon had made an end of praying ,
the fire came down from heaven ,
and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices ;
and the glory of the LORD filled the house .
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And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD ,
because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD '
S house .
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And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down ,
and the glory of the LORD upon the house ,
they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement ,
and worshipped ,
and praised the LORD ,
saying ,
For he is good ;
for his mercy endureth for ever .
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Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD .
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And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen ,
and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep :
so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God .
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And the priests waited on their offices :
the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD ,
which David the king had made to praise the LORD ,
because his mercy endureth for ever ,
when David praised by their ministry ;
and the priests sounded trumpets before them ,
and all Israel stood .
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Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD :
for there he offered burnt offerings ,
and the fat of the peace offerings ,
because the brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings ,
and the meat offerings ,
and the fat .
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Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days ,
and all Israel with him ,
a very great congregation ,
from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt .
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And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly :
for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days ,
and the feast seven days .
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And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents ,
glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David ,
and to Solomon ,
and to Israel his people .
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Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD ,
and the king '
s house :
and all that came into Solomon '
s heart to make in the house of the LORD ,
and in his own house ,
he prosperously effected .
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And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night ,
and said unto him ,
I have heard thy prayer ,
and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice .
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If I shut up heaven that there be no rain ,
or if I command the locusts to devour the land ,
or if I send pestilence among my people ;
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If my people ,
which are called by my name ,
shall humble themselves ,
and pray ,
and seek my face ,
and turn from their wicked ways ;
then will I hear from heaven ,
and will forgive their sin ,
and will heal their land .
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Now mine eyes shall be open ,
and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place .
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For now have I chosen and sanctified this house ,
that my name may be there for ever :
and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually .
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And as for thee ,
if thou wilt walk before me ,
as David thy father walked ,
and do according to all that I have commanded thee ,
and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments ;
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Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom ,
according as I have covenanted with David thy father ,
saying ,
There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel .
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But if ye turn away ,
and forsake my statutes and my commandments ,
which I have set before you ,
and shall go and serve other gods ,
and worship them ;
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Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them ;
and this house ,
which I have sanctified for my name ,
will I cast out of my sight ,
and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations .
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And this house ,
which is high ,
shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it ;
so that he shall say ,
Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land ,
and unto this house ?
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And it shall be answered ,
Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers ,
which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt ,
and laid hold on other gods ,
and worshipped them ,
and served them :
therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them .
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And it came to pass at the end of twenty years ,
wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD ,
and his own house ,
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That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon ,
Solomon built them ,
and caused the children of Israel to dwell there .
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And Solomon went to Hamathzobah ,
and prevailed against it .
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And he built Tadmor in the wilderness ,
and all the store cities ,
which he built in Hamath .
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Also he built Bethhoron the upper ,
and Bethhoron the nether ,
fenced cities ,
with walls ,
gates ,
and bars ;
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And Baalath ,
and all the store cities that Solomon had ,
and all the chariot cities ,
and the cities of the horsemen ,
and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem ,
and in Lebanon ,
and throughout all the land of his dominion .
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As for all the people that were left of the Hittites ,
and the Amorites ,
and the Perizzites ,
and the Hivites ,
and the Jebusites ,
which were not of Israel ,
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But of their children ,
who were left after them in the land ,
whom the children of Israel consumed not ,
them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day .
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But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work ;
but they were men of war ,
and chief of his captains ,
and captains of his chariots and horsemen .
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And these were the chief of king Solomon '
s officers ,
even two hundred and fifty ,
that bare rule over the people .
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And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her :
for he said ,
My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel ,
because the places are holy ,
whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come .
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Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD ,
which he had built before the porch ,
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Even after a certain rate every day ,
offering according to the commandment of Moses ,
on the sabbaths ,
and on the new moons ,
and on the solemn feasts ,
three times in the year ,
even in the feast of unleavened bread ,
and in the feast of weeks ,
and in the feast of tabernacles .
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And he appointed ,
according to the order of David his father ,
the courses of the priests to their service ,
and the Levites to their charges ,
to praise and minister before the priests ,
as the duty of every day required :
the porters also by their courses at every gate :
for so had David the man of God commanded .
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And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter ,
or concerning the treasures .
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Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD ,
and until it was finished .
So the house of the LORD was perfected .
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Then went Solomon to Eziongeber ,
and to Eloth ,
at the sea side in the land of Edom .
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And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships ,
and servants that had knowledge of the sea ;
and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir ,
and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold ,
and brought them to king Solomon .
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And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon ,
she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem ,
with a very great company ,
and camels that bare spices ,
and gold in abundance ,
and precious stones :
and when she was come to Solomon ,
she communed with him of all that was in her heart .
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