2Chronicles:6:12-42
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Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel ,
and spread forth his hands .
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Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long ,
five cubits wide ,
and three cubits high ,
and had set it in the court ;
and he stood upon it .
Then he knelt upon his knees in the presence of all the assembly 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 thee ,
in heaven or on earth ,
keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to thy servants who walk before thee with all their heart ;
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who hast kept with thy servant David my father what thou didst declare to him ;
yea ,
thou didst speak with thy mouth ,
and with thy hand hast fulfilled it this day .
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Now therefore ,
O LORD ,
God of Israel ,
keep with thy servant David my father what thou hast promised him ,
saying , `
There shall never fail you a man before me to sit upon the throne of Israel ,
if only your sons take heed to their way ,
to walk in my law as you have walked before me .'
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Now therefore ,
O LORD ,
God of Israel ,
let thy word be confirmed ,
which thou hast spoken to thy servant David .
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But will God dwell indeed with man on the earth ?
Behold ,
heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain thee ;
how much less this house which I have built !
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Yet have regard to the prayer of thy servant and to his supplication ,
O LORD my God ,
hearkening to the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prays before thee ;
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that thy eyes may be open day and night toward this house ,
the place where thou hast promised to set thy name ,
that thou mayest hearken to the prayer which thy servant offers toward this place .
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And hearken thou to the supplications of thy servant and of thy people Israel ,
when they pray toward this place ;
yea ,
hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place ;
and when thou hearest ,
forgive .
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If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath ,
and comes and swears his oath before thy altar in this house ,
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then hear thou from heaven ,
and act ,
and judge thy servants ,
requiting the guilty by bringing his conduct upon his own head ,
and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness .
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If thy people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against thee ,
when they turn again and acknowledge thy name ,
and pray and make supplication to thee in this house ,
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then hear thou from heaven ,
and forgive the sin of thy people Israel ,
and bring them again to the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers .
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When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against thee ,
if they pray toward this place ,
and acknowledge thy name ,
and turn from their sin ,
when thou dost afflict them ,
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then hear thou in heaven ,
and forgive the sin of thy servants ,
thy people Israel ,
when thou dost teach them the good way in which they should walk ;
and grant rain upon thy land ,
which thou hast given to thy people as an inheritance .
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If there is famine in the land ,
if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar ;
if their enemies besiege them in any of their cities ;
whatever plague ,
whatever sickness there is ;
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whatever prayer ,
whatever supplication is made by any man or by all thy people Israel ,
each knowing his own affliction ,
and his own sorrow and stretching out his hands toward this house ;
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then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place ,
and forgive ,
and render to each whose heart thou knowest ,
according to all his ways (
for thou ,
thou only ,
knowest the hearts of the children of men );
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that they may fear thee and walk in thy ways all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest to our fathers .
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Likewise when a foreigner ,
who is not of thy people Israel ,
comes from a far country for the sake of thy great name ,
and thy mighty hand ,
and thy outstretched arm ,
when he comes and prays toward this house ,
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hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place ,
and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to thee ;
in order that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name and fear thee ,
as do thy people Israel ,
and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name .
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If thy people go out to battle against their enemies ,
by whatever way thou shalt send them ,
and they pray to thee toward this city which thou hast chosen and the house which I have built for thy name ,
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then hear thou from heaven their prayer and their supplication ,
and maintain their cause .
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If they sin against thee--for there is no man who does not sin--and thou art angry with them ,
and dost give them to an enemy ,
so that they are carried away captive to a land far or near ;
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yet if they lay it to heart in the land to which they have been carried captive ,
and repent ,
and make supplication to thee in the land of their captivity ,
saying , `
We have sinned ,
and have acted perversely and wickedly ';
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if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their captivity ,
to which they were carried captive ,
and pray toward their land ,
which thou gavest to their fathers ,
the city which thou hast chosen ,
and the house which I have built for thy name ,
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then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place their prayer and their supplications ,
and maintain their cause and forgive thy people who have sinned against thee .
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Now ,
O my God ,
let thy eyes be open and thy ears attentive to a prayer of this place .
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And now arise ,
O LORD God ,
and go to thy resting place ,
thou and the ark of thy might .
Let thy priests ,
O LORD God ,
be clothed with salvation ,
and let thy saints rejoice in thy goodness .
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O LORD God ,
do not turn away the face of thy anointed one !
Remember thy steadfast love for David thy servant ."
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