2 Chronicles 1:1-9:31
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a Solomon the son of David established himself in his kingdom, b and the Lord his God was with him and made him exceedingly great.
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Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the c commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers' houses.
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And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to d the high place that was at Gibeon, e for f the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness, was there.
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g (But David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.)
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Moreover, h the bronze altar that i Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord. And Solomon and the assembly j sought it out.
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And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the Lord, which was at the tent of meeting, k and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it.
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l In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, "Ask what I shall give you."
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And Solomon said to God, "You have shown great and steadfast love to David my father, m and have made me king in his place.
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O Lord God, n let your word to David my father be now fulfilled, for you have made me king over a people as numerous o as the dust of the earth.
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Give me now wisdom and knowledge to p go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this people of yours, which is so great?"
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God answered Solomon, "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked q possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked long life, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may govern my people over whom I have made you king,
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wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you q riches, possessions, and honor, r such as none of the kings had who were before you, and none after you shall have the like."
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So Solomon came from the s high place at Gibeon, from before t the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem. And he reigned over Israel.
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u Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. v He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed w in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
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And the king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.
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And Solomon's import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king's traders would buy them from Kue for a price.
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They imported a chariot from Egypt for 600 shekels of silver, and a horse for 150. Likewise through them these were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria.
2 Chronicles 2
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x Now Solomon purposed to build a temple for the name of the Lord, and a royal palace for himself.
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y And Solomon assigned 70,000 men to bear burdens and 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and z 3,600 to oversee them.
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a And Solomon sent word to Hiram the king of Tyre: b "As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedar to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me.
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Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the Lord my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of c incense of sweet spices before him, and for d the regular arrangement of the showbread, and for e burnt offerings morning and evening, f on the Sabbaths and the new moons and the appointed feasts of the Lord our God, as ordained forever for Israel.
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The house that I am to build will be great, g for our God is greater than all gods.
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h But who is able to build him a house, since h 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?
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So now i send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, j whom David my father provided.
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Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that k your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And my servants will be with your servants,
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to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house I am to build will be great and wonderful.
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l I will give for your servants, the woodsmen who cut timber, 20,000 cors of crushed wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of oil."
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Then Hiram the king of Tyre answered in a letter that he sent to Solomon, m "Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you king over them."
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Hiram also said, "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, n who made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, who has discretion and understanding, o who will build a temple for the Lord and a royal palace for himself.
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"Now I have sent a skilled man, who has understanding, Huram-abi,
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p the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is q trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father.
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Now therefore the wheat and barley, oil and wine, r of which my lord has spoken, let him send to his servants.
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s And we will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you in rafts by sea to t Joppa, so that you may take it up to Jerusalem."
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Then Solomon counted all the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, u after the census of them that David his father had taken, and there were found 153,600.
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v Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.
2 Chronicles 3
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w Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem x on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, y on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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He began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.
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These are Solomon's z measurements for building the house of God: a the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
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The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and its height was 120 cubits. He overlaid it on the inside with pure gold.
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b The nave he lined with cypress and covered it with fine gold c and made palms and chains on it.
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He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold of Parvaim.
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So he lined the house with gold - its beams, its thresholds, its walls, and its doors - c and he carved cherubim on the walls.
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d And he made the Most Holy Place. Its length, corresponding to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth was twenty cubits. He overlaid it with 600 talents of fine gold.
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The weight of gold for the nails was fifty shekels. And he overlaid e the upper chambers with gold.
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f In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of wood and overlaid them with gold.
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The wings of the cherubim together extended twenty cubits: one wing of the one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub;
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and of this cherub, one wing, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, also of five cubits, was joined to the wing of the first cherub.
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The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. The cherubim stood on their feet, g facing the nave.
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h And he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and he worked cherubim on it.
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i In front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, with a capital of five cubits on the top of each.
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He made chains like a necklace and put them on the tops of the pillars, and he made a hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains.
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j He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south, the other on the north; that on the south he called Jachin, and that on the north Boaz.
2 Chronicles 4
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He made k an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.
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l Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
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Under it were figures of gourds, for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.
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It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on them, and all their rear parts were inward.
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Its thickness was a handbreadth. And its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. m It held 3,000 baths.
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n He also made ten basins in which to wash, and set five on the south side, and five on the north side. In these they were to rinse off what was used for the burnt offering, and the sea was for the priests to wash in.
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And he made ten golden lampstands o as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.
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p He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. And he made a hundred basins of gold.
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He made q the court of the priests r and the great court and doors for the court and overlaid their doors with bronze.
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s And he set the sea at the southeast corner of the house.
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t u Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. u So Hiram finished the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of God:
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the two pillars, v the bowls, and the two capitals on the top of the pillars; and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;
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w and the 400 pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars.
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n He made the stands also, and the basins on the stands,
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and the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath it.
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The pots, the shovels, x the forks, and all the equipment for these t y Huram-abi made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the Lord.
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In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.
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z Solomon made all these things in great quantities, for the weight of the bronze was not sought.
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So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God: the golden altar, a the tables for the bread of the Presence,
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the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold b to burn before the inner sanctuary, as prescribed;
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the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of purest gold;
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the snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and fire pans, of pure gold, and the sockets of the temple, for the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and for the doors of the nave of the temple were of gold.
2 Chronicles 5
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c Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God.
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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 d the city of David, which is Zion.
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And all the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast that is in the seventh month.
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And all the elders of Israel came, e and the Levites took up the ark.
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And they brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; f the Levitical priests brought them up.
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And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
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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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The cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles.
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And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen g from the Holy Place before 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 the two tablets h that Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
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And when the priests came out of the Holy Place (for all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves, without regard to i their divisions,
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and all the Levitical j singers, k Asaph, l Heman, and Jeduthun, their sons and kinsmen, arrayed in fine linen, with m cymbals, harps, and lyres, stood east of the altar with 120 n priests who were trumpeters;
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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, o with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the Lord,
p "For he is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever,"
the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud,
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so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, q for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God.
2 Chronicles 6
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r Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.
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But I have built you s an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever."
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Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.
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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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'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;
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t but I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there, u and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.'
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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, 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 set the ark, w in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with the people of Israel."
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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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x 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. y 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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and said, "O Lord, God of Israel, z there is no God like you, in heaven or on earth, a keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart,
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b who have kept with your servant David my father what you declared to him. 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, c 'You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, d if only your sons pay close attention 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 your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David.
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"But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, e 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,
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f that your eyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where you have promised to set your name, that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.
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And listen to the pleas of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen from heaven your dwelling place, g and when you hear, 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 your altar in this house,
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then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying 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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"If your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house,
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g then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to them and to their fathers.
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h "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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g then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them 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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i "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 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 his own affliction and his own sorrow and stretching out his hands toward this house,
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g then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, j for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind,
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that they may fear you and walk in your ways 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 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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hear from 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 k that I have built is called by your name.
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"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 that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,
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then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.
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"If they sin against you - l 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 to a land far or near,
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yet 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 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 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 from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
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Now, O my God, m let your eyes be open n and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.
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"And now arise, O Lord God, and go to your o resting place,
you and the ark of your might.
Let your priests, O Lord God, be p clothed with salvation,
and let your saints q rejoice in your goodness.
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O Lord God, r do not turn away the face of your anointed one!
s Remember your steadfast love for David your servant."
2 Chronicles 7
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t As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, u fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, v and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.
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And the priests could not enter the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord filled the Lord's house.
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When all the people of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the Lord on the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, "For he is good, w for his steadfast love endures forever."
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x Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the Lord.
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King Solomon offered as a sacrifice 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
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The priests stood at their posts; y the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the Lord that King David had made for giving thanks to the Lord - w for his steadfast love endures forever - whenever David offered praises by their ministry; z opposite them the priests sounded trumpets, and all Israel stood.
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a And Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord, for there he offered the burnt offering and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat.
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At that time Solomon held the feast for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from b Lebo-hamath to the c Brook of Egypt.
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And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for they had kept the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days.
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On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the prosperity that the Lord had granted to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.
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d Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord and the king's house. All that Solomon had planned to do in the house of the Lord and in his own house he successfully accomplished.
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Then the Lord appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: "I have heard your prayer e and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.
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f When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,
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if my people who are called by my name g humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
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h Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
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e For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
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And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules,
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then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, i 'You shall not lack a man to rule Israel.'
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j "But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
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k then I will pluck you up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it l a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
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And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, m 'Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?'
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Then they will say, 'Because they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore he has brought all this disaster on them.'"
2 Chronicles 8
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n At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house,
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Solomon rebuilt the cities that Hiram had given to him, and settled the people of Israel in them.
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And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and took it.
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He built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the store cities that he built in Hamath.
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He also built o Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, p fortified cities p with walls, gates, and bars,
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and Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had and all the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
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q All the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,
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from their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel had not destroyed - these Solomon drafted r as forced labor, and so they are to this day.
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But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves for his work; they were soldiers, and his officers, the commanders of his chariots, and his horsemen.
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And these were the chief officers of King Solomon, 250, who exercised authority over the people.
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s Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the city of David to the house that he had built for her, for he said, "My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, for the places to which the ark of the Lord has come are holy."
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Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord t that he had built before the vestibule,
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u as the duty of each day required, offering v according to the commandment of Moses for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the w three annual feasts - the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.
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According to the ruling of David his father, he appointed x the divisions of the priests for their service, y and the Levites for their offices of praise and z ministry before the priests u as the duty of each day required, and a the gatekeepers in their divisions at each gate, for so David b the man of God had commanded.
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And they did not turn aside from what the king had commanded the priests and Levites concerning any matter and concerning the treasuries.
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Thus was accomplished all the work of Solomon from the day the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid until it was finished. So the house of the Lord was completed.
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Then Solomon went to c Ezion-geber and d Eloth on the shore of the sea, in the land of Edom.
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And Hiram sent to him by the hand of his servants ships and servants familiar with the sea, and they went to Ophir together with the servants of Solomon and brought from there e 450 talents of gold and brought it to King Solomon.
2 Chronicles 9
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f Now when g the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions, having a very great retinue and camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.
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And Solomon answered all her questions. There was nothing hidden from Solomon that he could not explain to her.
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And when g the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
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the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, and their clothing, his cupbearers, and their clothing, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of the Lord, there was no more breath in her.
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And she said to the king, "The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom,
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but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, half the greatness of your wisdom was not told me; you surpass the report that I heard.
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Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!
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Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted in you h and set you on his throne as king for the Lord your God! i Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
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Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There were no spices such as those that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
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Moreover, the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon, j who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum wood and precious stones.
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And the king made from the algum wood k supports for the house of the Lord and for the king's house, lyres also and harps for the singers. There never was seen the like of them before in the land of Judah.
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And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked l besides what she had brought to the king. So she turned and went back to her own land with her servants.
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m Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,
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besides that which the explorers and merchants brought. n And all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land brought gold and silver to Solomon.
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King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold; 600 shekels of beaten gold went into each shield.
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And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; o 300 shekels of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
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The king also made a great ivory throne and overlaid it with pure gold.
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The throne had six steps and a footstool of gold, which were attached to the throne, and on each side of the seat were armrests and two lions standing beside the armrests,
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while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. Nothing like it was ever made for any kingdom.
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All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.
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For the king's ships went to p Tarshish with the servants of Hiram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
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Thus King Solomon q excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
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And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.
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Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and of gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
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And Solomon had r 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
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s And he ruled over all the kings t from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt.
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u And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.
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v And horses were imported for Solomon from Egypt and from all lands.
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w Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, from x first to last, are they not written in the history of y Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of z Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of a Iddo b the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
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Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in c the city of David his father, and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
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1 Kings 2:46
Then the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck him down, and he died. So the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
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1 Chronicles 29:25
And the Lord made Solomon very great in the sight of all Israel and bestowed on him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.
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1 Chronicles 27:1
This is the number of the people of Israel, the heads of fathers' houses, the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and their officers who served the king in all matters concerning the divisions that came and went, month after month throughout the year, each division numbering 24,000:
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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.
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1 Chronicles 16:39
And he left Zadok the priest and his brothers the priests before the tabernacle of the Lord in the high place that was at Gibeon
1 Chronicles 21:29
For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
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Exodus 29:10
Then you shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting. Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.
Leviticus 10:7
And do not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting, lest you die, for the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you." And they did according to the word of Moses.
Numbers 14:10
Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But the glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel.
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2 Samuel 6:2 - 17
And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale-judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the Lord of hosts who sits enthroned on the cherubim.
1 Chronicles 15:25 - 16:1
So David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the house of Obed-edom with rejoicing.
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Exodus 27:1 - 2
You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits broad. The altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits.
Exodus 38:1 - 2
He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. Five cubits was its length, and five cubits its breadth. It was square, and three cubits was its height.
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Exodus 31:2
See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
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1 Chronicles 13:3
Then let us bring again the ark of our God to us, for we did not seek it in the days of Saul.
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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.
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2 Chronicles 1:7 - 12
In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, "Ask what I shall give you.
1 Kings 3:5 - 14
At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, "Ask what I shall give you.
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1 Chronicles 28:5
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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2 Chronicles 6:17
Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David.
1 Kings 8:26
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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Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
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Numbers 27:17
Who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be as sheep that have no shepherd.
Deuteronomy 31:2
And he said to them, "I am 120 years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. The Lord has said to me, 'You shall not go over this Jordan.
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Ecclesiastes 5:19
Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil - this is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 6:2
A man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous evil.
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2 Chronicles 1:11
God answered Solomon, "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked long life, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may govern my people over whom I have made you king.
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2 Chronicles 9:22
Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
1 Chronicles 29:25
And the Lord made Solomon very great in the sight of all Israel and bestowed on him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in 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.
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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 Chronicles 1:14 - 17
Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 9:25 - 28
And Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
1 Kings 10:26 - 29
And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
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1 Kings 4:26
Solomon also had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.
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1 Kings 9:19
And all the store cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
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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.
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2 Chronicles 2:18
Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.
1 Kings 5:15 - 16
Solomon also had 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country.
2 Chronicles 8:7 - 8
All the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel.
1 Kings 9:20 - 21
All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel -
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1 Kings 5:16
Besides Solomon's 3,300 chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
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2 Chronicles 2:3 - 16
And Solomon sent word to Hiram the king of Tyre: "As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedar to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me.
1 Kings 5:2 - 11
And Solomon sent word to Hiram.
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1 Chronicles 14:1
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also masons and carpenters to build a house for him.
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Exodus 30:7
And Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it. Every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it.
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Leviticus 24:5 - 8
You shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.
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Numbers 28:3 - 8
And you shall say to them, This is the food offering that you shall offer to the Lord : two male lambs a year old without blemish, day by day, as a regular offering.
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2 Chronicles 8:13
As the duty of each day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the three annual feasts - the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.
Numbers 28:9
On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering:
Numbers 28:11
At the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord : two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish.
Numbers 28:19
But offer a food offering, a burnt offering to the Lord : two bulls from the herd, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; see that they are without blemish.
Numbers 28:26
On the day of the firstfruits, when you offer a grain offering of new grain to the Lord at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work.
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Psalms 135:5
For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.
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?
1 Chronicles 16:25
For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be held in awe above all gods.
Psalms 86:8
There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours.
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2 Chronicles 6:18
But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!
1 Kings 8:27
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
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?
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?
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2 Chronicles 6:18
But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!
1 Kings 8:27
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
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?
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?
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2 Chronicles 2:13 - 14
Now I have sent a skilled man, who has understanding, Huram-abi.
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1 Chronicles 22:15
You have an abundance of workmen: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and all kinds of craftsmen without number, skilled in working
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2 Chronicles 9:10 - 11
Moreover, the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum wood and precious stones.
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1 Kings 5:11
While Solomon gave Hiram 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, and 20,000 cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.
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2 Chronicles 9:8
Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the Lord your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness.
1 Kings 10:9
Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the Lord loved Israel forever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness.
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Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
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2 Chronicles 2:1
Now Solomon purposed to build a temple for the name of the Lord, and a royal palace for himself.
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1 Kings 7:14
He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze. And he was full of wisdom, understanding, and skill for making any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work.
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2 Chronicles 2:7
So now send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
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2 Chronicles 2:10
I will give for your servants, the woodsmen who cut timber, 20,000 cors of crushed wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of oil.
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1 Kings 5:9
My servants shall bring it down to the sea from Lebanon, and I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct. And I will have them broken up there, and you shall receive it. And you shall meet my wishes by providing food for my household.
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Joshua 19:46
And Me-jarkon and Rakkon with the territory over against Joppa.
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1 Chronicles 22:2
David commanded to gather together the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to prepare dressed stones for building the house of God.
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2 Chronicles 2:2
And Solomon assigned 70,000 men to bear burdens and 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 to oversee them.
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2 Chronicles 3:1 - 2
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Kings 6:1
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.
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Genesis 22:2
He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.
Genesis 22:14
So Abraham called the name of that place, "The Lord will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.
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1 Chronicles 21:15
And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the Lord saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:18
Now the angel of the Lord had commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and raise an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:28
At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.
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Ezra 3:11
And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the Lord, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel." And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.
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2 Chronicles 3:3 - 4
These are Solomon's measurements for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
1 Kings 6:2 - 3
The house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
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1 Kings 6:17
The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.
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1 Kings 6:29
Around all the walls of the house he carved engraved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms.
1 Kings 6:32
He covered the two doors of olivewood with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. He overlaid them with gold and spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.
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2 Chronicles 3:5
The nave he lined with cypress and covered it with fine gold and made palms and chains on it.
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1 Kings 6:16
He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.
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1 Chronicles 28:11
Then David gave Solomon his son the plan of the vestibule of the temple, and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, and its inner chambers, and of the room for the mercy seat.
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2 Chronicles 3:10 - 13
In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of wood and overlaid them with gold.
1 Kings 6:23 - 28
In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high.
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Ezekiel 40:9
Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; and its jambs, two cubits; and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end.
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Exodus 26:31
And you shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. It shall be made with cherubim skillfully worked into it.
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2 Chronicles 3:15 - 16
In front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, with a capital of five cubits on the top of each.
1 Kings 7:15 - 20
He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference. It was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers. The second pillar was the same.
1 Kings 7:15
He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference. It was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers. The second pillar was the same.
2 Kings 25:17
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and on it was a capital of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits. A latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, were all around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with the latticework.
Jeremiah 52:21
As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, its circumference was twelve cubits, and its thickness was four fingers, and it was hollow.
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1 Kings 7:21
He set up the pillars at the vestibule of the temple. He set up the pillar on the south and called its name Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the north and called its name Boaz.
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2 Chronicles 7:7
And Solomon consecrated the middle of the court...
2 Chronicles 8:12
Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to the ...
2 Chronicles 15:8
As soon as Asa heard these words, the prophecy ...
1 Kings 8:64
The same day the king consecrated the middle of...
2 Kings 16:14
And the bronze altar that was before the Lord h...
Ezekiel 43:13 - 17
These are the measurements of the altar by cubi...
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2 Chronicles 4:2 - 5
Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
1 Kings 7:23 - 26
Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
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1 Kings 7:26
Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.
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1 Kings 7:38 - 39
And he made ten basins of bronze. Each basin held forty baths, each basin measured four cubits, and there was a basin for each of the ten stands.
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2 Chronicles 4:20
The lampstands and their lamps of pure gold to burn before the inner sanctuary, as prescribed.
1 Kings 7:49
The lampstands of pure gold, five on the south side and five on the north, before the inner sanctuary; the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold.
Exodus 25:31 - 39
You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.
Exodus 27:20 - 21
You shall command the people of Israel that they bring to you pure beaten olive oil for the light, that a lamp may regularly be set up to burn.
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2 Chronicles 4:19
So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God: the golden altar, the tables for the bread of the Presence.
1 Kings 7:48
So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the Lord : the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the Presence.
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1 Kings 6:36
He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and one course of cedar beams.
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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.
2 Kings 21:5
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
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1 Kings 7:39
And he set the stands, five on the south side of the house, and five on the north side of the house. And he set the sea at the southeast corner of the house.
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2 Chronicles 4:11 - 5:1
Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of God:
1 Kings 7:40 - 51
Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished all the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of the Lord :
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1 Kings 7:13 - 14
And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.
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1 Kings 7:13 - 14
And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.
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1 Kings 7:41
The two pillars, the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars, and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars.
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1 Kings 7:20
The capitals were on the two pillars and also above the rounded projection which was beside the latticework. There were two hundred pomegranates in two rows all around, and so with the other capital.
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2 Chronicles 4:6
He also made ten basins in which to wash, and set five on the south side, and five on the north side. In these they were to rinse off what was used for the burnt offering, and the sea was for the priests to wash in.
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1 Chronicles 28:17
And pure gold for the forks, the basins and the cups; for the golden bowls and the weight of each; for the silver bowls and the weight of each.
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2 Chronicles 4:11
Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of God:
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2 Chronicles 2:13
Now I have sent a skilled man, who has understanding, Huram-abi.
1 Kings 7:14
He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze. And he was full of wisdom, understanding, and skill for making any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work.
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1 Kings 7:47
And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; the weight of the bronze was not ascertained.
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2 Chronicles 4:8
He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. And he made a hundred basins of gold.
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2 Chronicles 4:7
And he made ten golden lampstands as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.
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2 Chronicles 5:1 - 10
Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God.
1 Kings 7:51 - 8:9
Thus all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and stored them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.
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2 Samuel 6:12
And it was told King David, "The Lord has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God." So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with rejoicing.
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2 Chronicles 5:7
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.
1 Kings 8:3
And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
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2 Chronicles 23:18
And Jehoiada posted watchmen for the house of the Lord under the direction of the Levitical priests and the Levites whom David had organized to be in charge of the house of the Lord, to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, as it is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.
2 Chronicles 30:27
Then the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy habitation in heaven.
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1 Kings 8:8
And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place before the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day.
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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.
2 Chronicles 6:11
And there I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with the people of Israel.
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1 Chronicles 24:1
The divisions of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
1 Chronicles 24:5
They divided them by lot, all alike, for there were sacred officers and officers of God among both the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar.
Luke 1:5
In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
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1 Chronicles 25:1 - 4
David and the chiefs of the service also set apart for the service the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who prophesied with lyres, with harps, and with cymbals. The list of those who did the work and of their duties was:
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1 Chronicles 6:39
And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, namely, Asaph the son of Berechiah, son of Shimea.
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1 Chronicles 6:33
These are the men who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer the son of Joel, son of Samuel.
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1 Chronicles 15:16
David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.
Psalms 150:3 - 5
Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp!
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2 Chronicles 7:6
The priests stood at their posts; the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the Lord that King David had made for giving thanks to the Lord - for his steadfast love endures forever - whenever David offered praises by their ministry; opposite them the priests sounded trumpets, and all Israel stood.
1 Chronicles 15:24
Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, should blow the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah were to be gatekeepers for the ark.
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1 Chronicles 16:42
Heman and Jeduthun had trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments for sacred song. The sons of Jeduthun were appointed to the gate.
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1 Chronicles 16:34
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
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2 Chronicles 7:2
And the priests could not enter the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord filled the Lord 's house.
1 Kings 8:11
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.
Exodus 40:35
And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
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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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
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Psalms 135:21
Blessed be the Lord from Zion, he who dwells in Jerusalem! Praise the Lord!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2 Kings 11:14
And when she looked, there was the king standing by the pillar, according to the custom, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets. And Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, "Treason! Treason!
2 Kings 23:3
And the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people joined in the covenant.
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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.
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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?
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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 Chronicles 22:9 - 10
Behold, a son shall be born to you who shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his surrounding enemies. For his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days.
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2 Chronicles 7:18
Then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, 'You shall not lack a man to rule Israel.
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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Psalms 132:12
If your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies that I shall teach them, their sons also forever shall sit on your throne.
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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?
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2 Chronicles 6:40
Now, O my God, let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.
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Daniel 9:19
O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. Delay not, for your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.
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2 Chronicles 6:21
And listen to the pleas of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen from heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.
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2 Chronicles 7:13
When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people.
1 Kings 17:1
Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.
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2 Chronicles 6:21
And listen to the pleas of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen from heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.
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2 Chronicles 20:9
'If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before you - for your name is in this house - and cry out to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.'
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2 Chronicles 6:21
And listen to the pleas of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen from heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.
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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.
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2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
James 2:7
Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable name by which you were called?
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Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
James 3:2
For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
1 John 1:8
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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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.
Nehemiah 1:11
O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man." Now I was cupbearer to the king.
2 Chronicles 6:20
That your eyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where you have promised to set your name, that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.
2 Chronicles 7:15
Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
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Psalms 130:2
O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy!
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Psalms 132:8 - 9
Arise, O Lord, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might.
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.
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Isaiah 61:10
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord ; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
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2 Chronicles 7:10
On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the prosperity that the Lord had granted to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.
Nehemiah 9:25
And they captured fortified cities and a rich land, and took possession of houses full of all good things, cisterns already hewn, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.
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Psalms 132:10
For the sake of your servant David, do not turn away the face of your anointed one.
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Psalms 132:1
Remember, O Lord, in David's favor, all the hardships he endured.
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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.
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Leviticus 9:24
And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar, and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.
1 Kings 18:38
Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
1 Chronicles 21:26
And David built there an altar to the Lord and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings and called on the Lord, and the Lord answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.
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2 Chronicles 5:13
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.
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2 Chronicles 5:13
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.
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1 Kings 8:62
Then the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.
1 Kings 8:63
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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1 Chronicles 15:16
David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.
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2 Chronicles 7:3
When all the people of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the Lord on the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.
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2 Chronicles 5:12
And all the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, their sons and kinsmen, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, stood east of the altar with 120 priests who were trumpeters.
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2 Chronicles 7:7 - 10
And Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord, for there he offered the burnt offering and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat.
1 Kings 8:64 - 66
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 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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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.
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2 Chronicles 7:11 - 22
Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord and the king's house. All that Solomon had planned to do in the house of the Lord and in his own house he successfully accomplished.
1 Kings 9:1 - 9
As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the king's house and all that Solomon desired to build.
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Deuteronomy 12:5
But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go.
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2 Chronicles 6:26
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.
2 Chronicles 6:28
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 the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is.
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2 Chronicles 12:7
When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah: "They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
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2 Chronicles 6:40
Now, O my God, let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.
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2 Chronicles 7:12
Then the Lord appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.
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1 Kings 8:25
Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, '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.
2 Chronicles 6:16
Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, '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 in my law as you have walked before me.
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Leviticus 26:14
But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments.
Deuteronomy 28:15
But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.
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Deuteronomy 29:28
And the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as they are this day.
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Deuteronomy 28:37
And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away.
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Deuteronomy 29:24
All the nations will say, 'Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?
Jeremiah 22:8 - 9
"'And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, "Why has the Lord dealt thus with this great city?"
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2 Chronicles 8:1 - 18
At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house.
1 Kings 9:10 - 28
At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house.
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Joshua 16:3
Then it goes down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, and it ends at the sea.
Joshua 16:5
The territory of the people of Ephraim by their clans was as follows: the boundary of their inheritance on the east was Ataroth-addar as far as Upper Beth-horon.
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2 Chronicles 14:7
And he said to Judah, "Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, because we have sought the Lord our God. We have sought him, and he has given us peace on every side." So they built and prospered.
Deuteronomy 3:5
All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages.
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2 Chronicles 14:7
And he said to Judah, "Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, because we have sought the Lord our God. We have sought him, and he has given us peace on every side." So they built and prospered.
Deuteronomy 3:5
All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages.
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Genesis 15:18 - 21
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.
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2 Chronicles 10:18
Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and the people of Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam quickly mounted his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.
1 Kings 4:6
Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram the son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.
1 Kings 9:21
Their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction - these Solomon drafted to be slaves, and so they are to this day.
1 Kings 12:18
Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam hurried to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.
Joshua 16:10
However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor.
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1 Kings 3:1
Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.
1 Kings 7:8
His own house where he was to dwell, in the other court back of the hall, was of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter whom he had taken in marriage.
1 Kings 9:24
But Pharaoh's daughter went up from the city of David to her own house that Solomon had built for her. Then he built the Millo.
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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.
2 Chronicles 15:8
As soon as Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Azariah the son of Oded, he took courage and put away the detestable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of the Lord that was in front of the vestibule of the house of the Lord.
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Exodus 29:38
Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day regularly.
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Numbers 28:3
And you shall say to them, This is the food offering that you shall offer to the Lord : two male lambs a year old without blemish, day by day, as a regular offering.
Numbers 28:9
On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering:
Numbers 28:11
At the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord : two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish.
Numbers 28:26
On the day of the firstfruits, when you offer a grain offering of new grain to the Lord at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work.
Numbers 29:2
And you shall offer a burnt offering, for a pleasing aroma to the Lord : one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish.
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Exodus 23:14
Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.
Deuteronomy 16:16
Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed.
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1 Chronicles 24:1
The divisions of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
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1 Chronicles 25:1
David and the chiefs of the service also set apart for the service the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who prophesied with lyres, with harps, and with cymbals. The list of those who did the work and of their duties was:
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2 Chronicles 7:6
The priests stood at their posts; the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the Lord that King David had made for giving thanks to the Lord - for his steadfast love endures forever - whenever David offered praises by their ministry; opposite them the priests sounded trumpets, and all Israel stood.
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2 Chronicles 8:13
As the duty of each day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the three annual feasts - the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.
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1 Chronicles 9:17 - 23
The gatekeepers were Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their kinsmen (Shallum was the chief).
1 Chronicles 26:1
As for the divisions of the gatekeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
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Nehemiah 12:24
And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers who stood opposite them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch by watch.
Nehemiah 12:36
And his relatives, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God. And Ezra the scribe went before them.
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1 Kings 9:26
King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
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Deuteronomy 2:8
So we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber. "And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.
2 Kings 14:22
He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.
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2 Chronicles 9:10
Moreover, the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum wood and precious stones.
1 Kings 9:28
And they went to Ophir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon.
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2 Chronicles 9:1 - 12
Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions, having a very great retinue and camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.
1 Kings 10:1 - 13
Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions.
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Matthew 12:42
The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Luke 11:31
The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
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2 Chronicles 9:1
Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions, having a very great retinue and camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.
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1 Chronicles 29:23
Then Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king in place of David his father. And he prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.
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2 Chronicles 2:11
Then Hiram the king of Tyre answered in a letter that he sent to Solomon, "Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you king over them.
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2 Chronicles 8:18
And Hiram sent to him by the hand of his servants ships and servants familiar with the sea, and they went to Ophir together with the servants of Solomon and brought from there 450 talents of gold and brought it to King Solomon.
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1 Kings 10:12
And the king made of the almug wood supports for the house of the Lord and for the king's house, also lyres and harps for the singers. No such almug wood has come or been seen to this day.
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1 Kings 10:13
And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked besides what was given her by the bounty of King Solomon. So she turned and went back to her own land with her servants.
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2 Chronicles 9:13 - 28
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold.
1 Kings 10:14 - 28
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold.
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Psalms 68:29
Because of your temple at Jerusalem kings shall bear gifts to you.
Psalms 72:10
May the kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands render him tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts!
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1 Kings 10:17
And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
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2 Chronicles 20:36 - 37
He joined him in building ships to go to Tarshish, and they built the ships in Ezion-geber.
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1 Kings 3:13
I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days.
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2 Chronicles 1:14
Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
1 Kings 4:26
Solomon also had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.
1 Kings 10:26
And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
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1 Kings 4:21
Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
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Genesis 15:18
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.
Exodus 23:31
And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
Psalms 72:8
May he have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth!
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2 Chronicles 1:15
And the king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.
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2 Chronicles 1:16
And Solomon's import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king's traders would buy them from Kue for a price.
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2 Chronicles 9:29 - 31
Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, from first to last, are they not written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
1 Kings 11:41 - 43
Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon?
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1 Chronicles 29:29
Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are written in the Chronicles of Samuel the seer, and in the Chronicles of Nathan the prophet, and in the Chronicles of Gad the seer.
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2 Samuel 12:1
And the Lord sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, "There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.
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1 Kings 11:29
And at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Ahijah had dressed himself in a new garment, and the two of them were alone in the open country.
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2 Chronicles 12:15
Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the chronicles of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer? There were continual wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
2 Chronicles 13:22
The rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
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2 Samuel 24:11
And when David arose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying.
1 Samuel 9:9
(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, "Come, let us go to the seer," for today's "prophet" was formerly called a seer.)
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1 Kings 2:10
Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.
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