2Chronicles:6

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* Then said Solomon , The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness . * But I have built an house of habitation for thee , and a place for thy dwelling for ever . * And the king turned his face , and blessed the whole congregation of Israel Yisra #el #: and all the congregation of Israel stood . * And he said , Blessed be the LORD God of Israel Yisra #el #, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David , saying , * 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 Yisra #el #: * But I have chosen Jerusalem , that my name might be there ; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel Yisra #el #. * Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel Yisra #el #. * But the LORD said to David my father , Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name , thou didst well in that it was in thine heart : * Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house ; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins , he shall build the house for my name . * The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken : for I am risen up in the room of David my father , and am set on the throne of Israel Yisra #el #, as the LORD promised , and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel Yisra #el #. * And in it have I put the ark , wherein is the covenant of the LORD , that he made with the children of Israel Yisra #el #. * And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel Yisra #el #, and spread forth his hands : * For Solomon had made a brasen 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 Yisra #el #, and spread forth his hands toward heaven , * And said , O LORD God of Israel Yisra #el #, there is no God like thee in the heaven , nor in the earth ; which keepest covenant , and shewest mercy unto thy servants , that walk before thee with all their hearts : * Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him ; and spakest with thy mouth , and hast fulfilled it with thine hand , as it is this day . * Now therefore , O LORD God of Israel Yisra #el #, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him , saying , There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel Yisra #el #; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law , as thou hast walked before me . * Now then , O LORD God of Israel Yisra #el #, let thy word be verified , which thou hast spoken unto 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 ! * Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant , and to his supplication , O LORD my God , to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee : * That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night , upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there ; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place . * Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant , and of thy people Israel Yisra #el #, which they shall make toward this place : hear thou from thy dwelling place , even from heaven ; and when thou hearest , forgive . * If a man sin against his neighbour , and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear , and the oath come before thine altar in this house ; * Then hear thou from heaven , and do , and judge thy servants , by requiting the wicked , by recompensing his way upon his own head ro #sh #; and by justifying the righteous , by giving him according to his righteousness . * And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy , because they have sinned against thee ; and shall return and confess thy name , and pray and make supplication before thee in this house ; * Then hear thou from the heavens , and forgive the sin of thy people Israel Yisra #el #, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers . * When the heaven is shut up , and there is no rain , because they have sinned against thee ; yet if they pray toward this place , and confess thy name , and turn from their sin chatta #ah #, when thou dost afflict them ; * Then hear thou from heaven , and forgive the sin of thy servants , and of thy people Israel Yisra #el #, when thou hast taught them the good way , wherein they should walk ; and send rain upon thy land , which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance . * If there be dearth in the land , if there be pestilence , if there be blasting , or mildew , locusts , or caterpillers ; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land ; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be : * Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man , or of all thy people Israel Yisra #el #, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief mak #ob #, and shall spread forth his hands in this house : * Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place , and forgive , and render unto every man according unto all his ways , whose heart thou knowest ; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men : ) * That they may fear thee , to walk in thy ways , so long as they live chay # in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers . * Moreover concerning the stranger , which is not of thy people Israel Yisra #el #, but is come from a far country for thy great names sake , and thy mighty hand , and thy stretched out arm ; if they come and pray in this house ; * Then hear thou from the heavens , even from thy dwelling place , and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for ; that all people of the earth may know thy name , and fear thee , as doth thy people Israel Yisra #el #, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name . * If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them , and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen , and the house which I have built for thy name ; * Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication , and maintain their cause . * If they sin against thee , (for there is no man which sinneth not ,) and thou be angry with them , and deliver them over before their enemies , and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near ; * Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive , and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity , saying , We have sinned , we have done amiss , and have dealt wickedly ; * If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity , whither they have carried them captives , and pray toward their land , which thou gavest unto their fathers , and toward the city which thou hast chosen , and toward the house which I have built for thy name : * Then hear thou from the heavens , even from thy dwelling place , their prayer and their supplications , and maintain their cause , and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee . * Now , my God , let , I beseech thee , thine eyes be open , and let thine ears be attent unto 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 t @shuw #ah #, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness . * O LORD God , turn not away the face of thine anointed : remember the mercies of David thy servant .

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