2 Chronicles 5:2-7:10
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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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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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