1 Kings 8
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j Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, k the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, l to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of m the city of David, which is Zion.
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And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon at n the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
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And all the elders of Israel came, and o the priests took up the ark.
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And they brought up the ark of the Lord, p the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up.
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And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were with him before the ark, q sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
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r Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord s to its place in t the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.
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For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles.
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u And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place before t the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day.
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There was nothing in the ark except v the two tablets of stone that Moses put there at Horeb, where w the Lord made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
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And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, x a cloud filled the house of the Lord,
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so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.
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y Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he would dwell z in thick darkness.
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a I have indeed built you an exalted house, b a place for you to dwell in forever."
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Then the king turned around and c blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.
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And he said, d "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled e what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying,
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f 'Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, g that my name might be there. h But I chose David to be over my people Israel.'
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i Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
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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.
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j Nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.'
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Now the Lord has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, k as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
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And there I have provided a place for the ark, l in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt."
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Then Solomon m stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and n spread out his hands toward heaven,
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and said, "O Lord, God of Israel, o there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, p keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart,
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who have kept with your servant David my father what you declared to him. e You spoke with your mouth, and with your hand have fulfilled it this day.
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Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, q 'You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.'
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r Now therefore, O God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David my father.
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"But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, s heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
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Yet have regard to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O Lord my God, listening to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you this day,
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t that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you have said, u 'My name shall be there,' that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.
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And listen to the plea of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen in heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.
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"If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take v an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,
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then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, w condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
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x "When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and y if they turn again to you and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house,
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then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to their fathers.
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z "When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,
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then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when a you teach them b the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.
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c "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
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whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house,
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then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways ( d for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),
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that they may fear you e all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.
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"Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for your name's sake
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(for they shall hear of your great name f and your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house,
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hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order g that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and h fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.
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"If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the Lord i toward the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,
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then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.
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"If they sin against you - j for there is no one who does not sin - and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive k to the land of the enemy, far off or near,
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yet l if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, m 'We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,'
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n if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you o toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name,
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then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause
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and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions that they have committed against you, and p grant them compassion in the sight of those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them
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( q for they are your people, and your heritage, which you brought out of Egypt, r from the midst of the iron furnace).
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s Let your eyes be open to the plea of your servant and to the plea of your people Israel, giving ear to them whenever they call to you.
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For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your heritage, t as you declared through Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God."
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u Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and plea to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, where he had v knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven.
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And he stood and w blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
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"Blessed be the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. x Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant.
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The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. y May he not leave us or forsake us,
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that he may z incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his rules, which he commanded our fathers.
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Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires,
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that a all the peoples of the earth may know that b the Lord is God; there is no other.
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c Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the Lord our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day."
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d Then e the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.
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Solomon offered as peace offerings to the Lord 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.
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The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord, for there he offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings, because f the bronze altar that was before the Lord was too small to receive the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings.
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So Solomon held g the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from h Lebo-hamath to i the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days.
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On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king and went to their homes joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people.
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1 Kings 8:1 - 9
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2 Chronicles 5:2 - 10
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
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Numbers 1:16
These were the ones chosen from the congregation, the chiefs of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel.
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2 Samuel 6:17
And they brought in the ark of the Lord and set it in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
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2 Samuel 5:7
Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.
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1 Kings 8:65
So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days.
Leviticus 23:34
Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the Lord.
2 Chronicles 7:8 - 10
At that time Solomon held the feast for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt.
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Numbers 4:15
And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the tent of meeting that the sons of Kohath are to carry.
Deuteronomy 31:9
Then Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel.
Joshua 3:3
And commanded the people, "As soon as you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it.
Joshua 3:6
And Joshua said to the priests, "Take up the ark of the covenant and pass on before the people." So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.
1 Chronicles 15:14 - 15
So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.
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1 Kings 3:4
And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
2 Chronicles 1:3
And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness, was there.
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2 Samuel 6:13
And when those who bore the ark of the Lord had gone six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal.
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2 Samuel 6:17
And they brought in the ark of the Lord and set it in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
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Exodus 26:33 - 34
And you shall hang the veil from the clasps, and bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil. And the veil shall separate for you the Holy Place from the Most Holy.
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1 Kings 6:5
He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around.
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Exodus 25:13 - 15
You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
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1 Kings 8:6
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.
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Exodus 25:21
And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you.
Exodus 40:20
He took the testimony and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark and set the mercy seat above on the ark.
Deuteronomy 10:2
And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.
Deuteronomy 10:5
Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark that I had made. And there they are, as the Lord commanded me.
Hebrews 9:4
Having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron's staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.
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Exodus 34:27 - 28
And the Lord said to Moses, "Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.
Deuteronomy 4:13
And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments, and he wrote them on two tablets of stone.
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Exodus 40:34 - 35
Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
2 Chronicles 5:13 - 14
And it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the Lord ), and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the Lord, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever," the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud.
2 Chronicles 7:1 - 2
As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.
Ezekiel 10:3 - 4
Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the house, when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.
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1 Kings 8:12 - 50
Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.
2 Chronicles 6:1 - 39
Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.
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Psalms 18:11
He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him, thick clouds dark with water.
Psalms 97:2
Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
Leviticus 16:2
And the Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother not to come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat.
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2 Samuel 7:13
He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
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Exodus 15:17
You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain, the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.
Psalms 132:14
This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
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1 Kings 8:55
And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying.
2 Samuel 6:18
And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts
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Luke 1:68
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people
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1 Kings 6:12
Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
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2 Samuel 7:4 - 16
But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan.
2 Samuel 7:25
And now, O Lord God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, and do as you have spoken.
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1 Kings 8:29
That your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you have said, 'My name shall be there,' that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.
Deuteronomy 12:11
Then to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the Lord.
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1 Samuel 16:1
The Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.
2 Samuel 7:8
Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.
1 Chronicles 28:4
Yet the Lord God of Israel chose me from all my father's house to be king over Israel forever. For he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father's house, and among my father's sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
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2 Samuel 7:2 - 3
The king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.
1 Chronicles 17:1 - 2
Now when David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, "Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under a tent.
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1 Kings 5:3
You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.
1 Kings 5:5
And so I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord said to David my father, 'Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.
2 Samuel 7:5
Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says the Lord : Would you build me a house to dwell in?
2 Samuel 7:12 - 13
When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
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1 Chronicles 28:5 - 6
And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons) he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
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1 Kings 8:9
There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone that Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 31:26
Take this Book of the Law and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.
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1 Kings 8:54
Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and plea to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, where he had knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven.
2 Chronicles 6:12 - 13
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.
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Exodus 9:33
So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and stretched out his hands to the Lord, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth.
Ezra 9:5
And at the evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment and my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the Lord my God.
Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
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Exodus 15:11
Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?
2 Samuel 7:22
Therefore you are great, O Lord God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
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Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.
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1 Kings 8:15
And he said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying.
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1 Kings 2:4
That the Lord may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.
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2 Samuel 7:25
And now, O Lord God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, and do as you have spoken.
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2 Chronicles 2:6
But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him?
Isaiah 66:1
Thus says the Lord : "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?
Jeremiah 23:24
Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.
Acts 7:49
'Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?
Acts 17:24
The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man.
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1 Kings 8:52
Let your eyes be open to the plea of your servant and to the plea of your people Israel, giving ear to them whenever they call to you.
2 Chronicles 7:15
Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
Nehemiah 1:6
Let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father's house have sinned.
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1 Kings 8:16
'Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there. But I chose David to be over my people Israel.'
1 Kings 9:3
And the Lord said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
Deuteronomy 12:11
Then to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the Lord.
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Exodus 22:11
An oath by the Lord shall be between them both to see whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor's property. The owner shall accept the oath, and he shall not make restitution.
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Deuteronomy 25:1
If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty.
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Leviticus 26:17
I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.
Deuteronomy 28:45
All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.
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Leviticus 26:40
But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me.
Nehemiah 1:9
But if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.
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Deuteronomy 11:17
Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.
Luke 4:25
But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land.
Leviticus 26:17
I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.
Deuteronomy 28:25
The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Psalms 25:4
Make me to know your ways, O Lord ; teach me your paths.
Psalms 27:11
Teach me your way, O Lord, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.
Psalms 86:11
Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.
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1 Samuel 12:23
Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
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Leviticus 26:16
Then I will do this to you: I will visit you wi...
Leviticus 26:25 - 26
And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall e...
Deuteronomy 28:21 - 22
The Lord will make the pestilence stick to you ...
Deuteronomy 28:37 - 38
And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a...
Deuteronomy 28:42
The cricket shall possess all your trees and th...
Deuteronomy 28:52
They shall besiege you in all your towns, until...
2 Chronicles 20:9
'If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment...
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1 Chronicles 28:9
And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Acts 1:24
And they prayed and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen
1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.
Jeremiah 17:10
"I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds."
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Deuteronomy 12:1
These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.
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Deuteronomy 3:24
O Lord God, you have only begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours?
2 Chronicles 6:32
Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for the sake of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when he comes and prays toward this house.
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1 Kings 8:60
That all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other.
Joshua 4:24
So that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty, that you may fear the Lord your God forever.
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Psalms 102:15
Nations will fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory.
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1 Kings 8:48
If they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name.
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Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, "I have made my heart pure; I am c...
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth wh...
Romans 3:23
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory...
James 3:2
For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone ...
1 John 1:8
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves,...
1 John 1:10
If we say we have not sinned, we make him a lia...
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Leviticus 26:34
Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths.
Leviticus 26:44
Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.
Deuteronomy 28:36
The Lord will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 28:64
And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
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Leviticus 26:40
But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me.
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Nehemiah 1:6
Let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father's house have sinned.
Psalms 106:6
Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.
Daniel 9:5
We have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.
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1 Samuel 7:3
And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, "If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
Jeremiah 29:12 - 14
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
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Daniel 6:10
When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.
1 Kings 8:44
If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the Lord toward the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name.
Psalms 5:7
But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you.
Jonah 2:4
Then I said, 'I am driven away from your sight; yet I shall again look upon your holy temple.
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Psalms 106:46
He caused them to be pitied by all those who held them captive.
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Deuteronomy 9:29
For they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.
Nehemiah 1:10
They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand.
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Deuteronomy 4:20
But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day.
Jeremiah 11:4
That I commanded your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Listen to my voice, and do all that I command you. So shall you be my people, and I will be your God.
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1 Kings 8:29
That your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you have said, 'My name shall be there,' that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.
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Exodus 19:5 - 6
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.
Deuteronomy 9:26
And I prayed to the Lord, 'O Lord God, do not destroy your people and your heritage, whom you have redeemed through your greatness, whom you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Deuteronomy 9:29
For they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.
Deuteronomy 14:2
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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2 Chronicles 7:1
As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.
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2 Chronicles 6:13
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 on it. Then he knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven.
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1 Kings 8:14
Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.
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Joshua 21:45
Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.
Joshua 23:14
And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.
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Deuteronomy 31:6
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.
Joshua 1:5
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.
1 Samuel 12:22
For the Lord will not forsake his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.
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Psalms 119:36
Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain!
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1 Kings 8:43
Hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.
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Deuteronomy 4:35
To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.
Deuteronomy 4:39
Know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
1 Kings 18:39
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, "The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.
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2 Kings 20:3
Now, O Lord, please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
1 Kings 11:4
For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
1 Kings 15:3
And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.
1 Kings 15:14
But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the Lord all his days.
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1 Kings 8:62 - 66
Then the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.
2 Chronicles 7:4 - 10
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the Lord.
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Ezra 6:16 - 17
And the people of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the returned exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.
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2 Chronicles 4:1
He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.
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1 Kings 8:2
And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
Leviticus 23:34
Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the Lord.
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Numbers 13:21
So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near Lebo-hamath.
Numbers 34:8
From Mount Hor you shall draw a line to Lebo-hamath, and the limit of the border shall be at Zedad.
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Numbers 34:5
And the border shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and its limit shall be at the sea.
2 Kings 24:7
And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.
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