Solomon Blesses the People

2 Chronicles 6

¹ _r Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness. ² But I have built you _s an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever." ³ Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood. ⁴ 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, ⁵ 'Since the day that I brought my people out of the land 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, and I chose no man as prince over my people Israel; ⁶ _t but I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there, _u and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.' ⁷ _v Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. ⁸ But the Lord said to David my father, 'Whereas _v it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart. ⁹ Nevertheless, it is not you who shall build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.' ¹⁰ 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, as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. ¹¹ And there I have set the ark, _w in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with the people of Israel."

1. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 6:1 - 39
   Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.
   1 Kings 8:12 - 50
   Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.
   Exodus 20:21
   The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
   Hebrews 12:18
   For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest
   
2. Cross References
   Psalms 135:21
   Blessed be the Lord from Zion, he who dwells in Jerusalem! Praise the Lord!
   
3. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 12:13
   So King Rehoboam grew strong in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.
   Psalms 78:68
   But he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.
   
4. Cross References
   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.
   1 Samuel 16:11 - 13
   Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your sons here?" And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.
   
5. Cross References
   2 Samuel 7:2
   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
   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.
   1 Chronicles 28:2
   Then King David rose to his feet and said: "Hear me, my brothers and my people. I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and for the footstool of our God, and I made preparations for building.
   
6. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 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.
   
7. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 5:10
   There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.