The Second Book of Chronicles, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} Then he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length of
it, and twenty cubits the breadth of it, and ten cubits the height of
it. {4:2} Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim,
round in compass; and the height of it was five cubits; and a line of
thirty cubits compassed it round about. {4:3} Under it was the
likeness of oxen, which did compass it round about, for ten cubits,
compassing the sea round about. The oxen were in two rows, cast when
it was cast. {4:4} It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the
north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the
south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set on them
above, and all their hinder parts were inward. {4:5} It was a
handbreadth thick; and the brim of it was worked like the brim of a
cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand
baths. {4:6} He made also ten basins, and put five on the right hand,
and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as belonged to the
burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to
wash in. {4:7} He made the ten lampstands of gold according to the
ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on the
right hand, and five on the left. {4:8} He made also ten tables, and
placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the
left. He made one hundred basins of gold. {4:9} Furthermore he made
the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the
court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass. {4:10} He set the
sea on the right side [of the house] eastward, toward the south.
{4:11} Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. So Huram
made an end of doing the work that he did for king Solomon in the
house of God: {4:12} the two pillars, and the bowls, and the two
capitals which were on the top of the pillars, and the two networks to
cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the
pillars, {4:13} and the four hundred pomegranates for the two
networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two
bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars. {4:14} He made also
the bases, and the basins made he on the bases; {4:15} one sea, and
the twelve oxen under it. {4:16} The pots also, and the shovels, and
the forks, and all the vessels of it, did Huram his father make for
king Solomon for the house of Yahweh of bright brass. {4:17} In the
plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between
Succoth and Zeredah. {4:18} Thus Solomon made all these vessels in
great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
{4:19} Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God, the
golden altar also, and the tables with the show bread on them; {4:20}
and the lampstands with their lamps, to burn according to the
ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold; {4:21} and the flowers, and
the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold; {4:22} and
the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the fire pans, of
pure gold: and as for the entry of the house, the inner doors of it
for the most holy place, and the doors of the main hall of the temple
were of gold.
{5:1} Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of Yahweh
was finished. Solomon brought in the things that David his father had
dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels, and put
them in the treasuries of the house of God. {5:2} Then Solomon
assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the
princes of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel, to
Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the
city of David, which is Zion. {5:3} And all the men of Israel
assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was [in] the
seventh month. {5:4} All the elders of Israel came: and the Levites
took up the ark; {5:5} and they brought up the ark, and the tent of
meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these did the
priests the Levites bring up. {5:6} King Solomon and all the
congregation of Israel, that were assembled to him, were before the
ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor
numbered for multitude. {5:7} The priests brought in the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the
most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim. {5:8} For the
cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the
cherubim covered the ark and the poles of it above. {5:9} The poles
were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark before
the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there it is to this
day. {5:10} There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which
Moses put [there] at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the
children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt. {5:11} It happened,
when the priests were come out of the holy place, (for all the priests
who were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their
divisions; {5:12} also the Levites who were the singers, all of them,
even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers,
arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and stringed instruments and
harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred
twenty priests sounding with trumpets;) {5:13} it happened, when the
trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in
praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with
the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh,
[saying], For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever;
that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of Yahweh,
{5:14} so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of
the cloud: for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of God.
{6:1} Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the
thick darkness. {6:2} But I have built you a house of habitation, and
a place for you to dwell in forever. {6:3} The king turned his face,
and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel
stood. {6:4} He said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke
with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled
it, saying, {6:5} 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 chose I any man
to be prince over my people Israel: {6:6} but I have chosen Jerusalem,
that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my
people Israel. {6:7} Now it was in the heart of David my father to
build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. {6:8} But
Yahweh said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build
a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart: {6:9}
nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall
come forth out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.
{6:10} Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I am risen up
in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as
Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the
God of Israel. {6:11} There have I set the ark, in which is the
covenant of Yahweh, which he made with the children of Israel. {6:12}
He stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the
assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands {6:13} (for Solomon had
made a bronze scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and
three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it
he stood, and kneeled down on his knees before all the assembly of
Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;) {6:14} and he said,
Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven, or on
earth; who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who
walk before you with all their heart; {6:15} who have kept with your
servant David my father that which you did promise him: yes, you spoke
with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this
day. {6:16} Now therefore, Yahweh, the 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 on the throne of
Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my
law as you have walked before me. {6:17} Now therefore, Yahweh, the
God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your
servant David. {6:18} But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth?
Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much
less this house which I have built! {6:19} Yet have you respect to the
prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, Yahweh my God, to
listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before
you; {6:20} that your eyes may be open toward this house day and
night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put
your name; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray
toward this place. {6:21} Listen to the petitions of your servant, and
of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yes,
hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear,
forgive. {6:22} If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath is laid
on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your
altar in this house; {6:23} then hear from heaven, and do, and judge
your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on
his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to
his righteousness. {6:24} If your people Israel be struck down before
the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again
and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in
this house; {6:25} then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your
people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them
and to their fathers. {6:26} When the sky is shut up, and there is no
rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this
place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you do
afflict them: {6:27} then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your
servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way
in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have
given to your people for an inheritance. {6:28} If there be in the
land famine, if there be pestilence, if there is blight or mildew,
locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of
their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there be; {6:29}
whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all your
people Israel, who shall know every man his own plague and his own
sorrow, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house: {6:30}
then hear from heaven, your dwelling place and forgive, and render to
every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you,
even you only, know the hearts of the children of men;) {6:31} that
they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the
land which you gave to our fathers. {6:32} Moreover concerning the
foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come from a
far country for your great name's sake, and your mighty hand, and your
outstretched arm; when they shall come and pray toward this house:
{6:33} then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, and do
according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the
peoples of the earth may know your name, and fear you, as does your
people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have
built is called by your name. {6:34} If your people go out to battle
against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they
pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house
which I have built for your name; {6:35} then hear from heaven their
prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. {6:36} If
they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you
are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry
them away captive to a land far off or near; {6:37} yet if they shall
repent themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn
again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity,
saying, We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt
wickedly; {6:38} 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 captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their
fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house
which I have built for your name: {6:39} then hear from heaven, even
from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and
maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against
you. {6:40} Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let
your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.
{6:41} Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting place, you,
and the ark of your strength: let your priests, Yahweh God, be clothed
with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness. {6:42} Yahweh
God, don't turn away the face of your anointed: remember [your] loving
kindnesses to David your servant.
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