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The Second Book of Chronicles, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} Then he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits its length, and
twenty cubits its breadth, and ten cubits its height. {4:2} Also he
made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass;
and its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled
it. {4:3} Under it was the likeness of oxen, which encircled it, for
ten cubits, encircling the sea. 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 its brim 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 menorahs 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 their doors 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 God's house: {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} Huram
his father also made the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all its
vessels for king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.
{4:17} The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, 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 God's
house, the golden altar also, and the tables with the show bread on
them; {4:20} and the menorahs 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 the LORD
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' households of the children of Israel, to
Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD 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 the
priests the Levites brought up. {5:6} King Solomon and all the
congregation of Israel, that were assembled to him, were before the
ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be counted nor
numbered for multitude. {5:7} The priests brought in the ark of the
covenant of the LORD 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 its poles 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 except the two tables which Moses
put at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of
Israel, when they came out of Egypt. {5:11} It happened, when the
priests had come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were
present had sanctified themselves, and didn't 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 [1>]shofars[<1];) {5:13} it happened, when the
trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in
praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice
with the [2>]shofars[<2] and cymbals and instruments of music, and
praised the LORD, saying,
"For he is good;
for his loving kindness endures forever!"
that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the
LORD, {5:14} so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason
of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD filled God's house.
{6:1} Then Solomon said, "The LORD 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD, the God of Israel. {6:8} But the LORD 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} "The LORD has performed his word that he spoke; for I have
risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of
Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of
the LORD, the God of Israel. {6:11} There I have set the ark, in which
is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with the children of
Israel."
{6:12} He stood before the altar of the LORD 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, "LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven,
or on earth; you 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 promised him:
yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand,
as it is this day.
{6:16} "Now therefore, LORD, 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, LORD, 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 respect for the prayer of
your servant, and to his supplication, LORD 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 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 is famine in the land, if there is 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 is; {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, LORD God, into your resting place, you,
and the ark of your strength: let your priests, LORD God, be clothed
with salvation [yeshu`ah], and let your holy ones rejoice in goodness.
{6:42} "LORD God, don't turn away the face of your anointed.
Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant."
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Footnotes:
[1] {5:12} or, trumpets
[2] {5:13} or, trumpets
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