Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. 1 2Ch 5:2-101Ch 15:252Sa 6:12-171Ch 11:71Ch 13:1-51Ch 15:291Ch 15:31Ch 28:1 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. Lev 23:342Ch 7:8-101Ki 8:652Ch 5:3Deu 16:13Ezr 3:4Jhn 7:2Jhn 7:37 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. Deu 31:9Jos 3:6Jos 3:3Num 4:151Ch 15:11-151Ch 15:22Ch 5:5-8Jos 3:14-15 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up. 1Ki 3:42Ch 1:3Exo 40:2-33 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude. 2Sa 6:131Ch 16:11Ki 8:62-63 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims. 1Ki 6:191Ki 6:272Sa 6:17Exo 26:33-341Ki 8:41Sa 4:42Ch 5:72Sa 6:2 For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above. And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day. 2 3 Exo 25:13-15Exo 37:4-52Ch 5:9Exo 40:20Jos 4:9Mat 28:15 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. 4 Exo 25:21Heb 9:4Exo 40:20Deu 10:2-52Ch 5:102Ch 7:1-3Deu 4:13Exo 34:27-28 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD, 2Ch 7:1-2Exo 40:34-35 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD. Ezk 43:4-5Ezk 44:42Co 3:182Co 4:6Lev 9:23Ezk 43:2Jhn 1:14Rev 21:23
¶ Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. Psa 97:22Ch 6:1-11Lev 16:2Isa 45:15Exo 20:21Psa 18:8-11Deu 5:22Heb 12:18 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever. 2Sa 7:13Exo 15:17Heb 9:24Psa 132:13-141Ch 17:121Ch 22:10-111Ch 28:101Ch 28:20 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;) 2Sa 6:181Ch 16:21Ki 8:55-562Ch 30:18-202Ch 6:32Ch 7:6Jos 22:6Luk 24:50-51 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying, Luk 1:681Ch 29:101Ch 29:20Neh 9:52Ch 6:4Jos 21:45Luk 1:70Psa 115:18 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel. 1Sa 16:11Ch 28:41Ki 8:292Sa 7:4-8Deu 12:111Ch 17:5-6Deu 12:5Psa 132:13 And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel. 2Sa 7:2-31Ch 17:1-151Ch 22:71Ch 28:2 And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart. 2Ch 6:7-92Co 8:12 Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name. 1Ch 22:8-102Sa 7:51Ch 17:11-121Ch 28:62Sa 7:12-131Ch 17:41Ki 5:3-5 And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel. 1Ch 28:5-61Ki 8:15Ezk 12:25Ezk 37:14Isa 9:7Jer 29:10-11Mic 7:20Neh 9:8 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. 1Ki 8:9Deu 31:261Ki 8:5-6Deu 9:11Deu 9:9Exo 34:28
¶ And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven: Ezr 9:51Ki 8:54Exo 9:33Exo 9:29Isa 1:151Ti 2:82Ch 6:12-422Ki 11:14 And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart: 2Sa 7:22Deu 7:9Dan 9:4Neh 1:51Sa 2:2Neh 9:32Exo 15:11Isa 40:25 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day. 2Sa 7:161Ki 8:152Sa 7:122Ch 6:14-15 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me. 5 6 1Ki 2:41Ki 9:4-62Ch 6:16-17Jer 33:17-262Sa 7:27-29Luk 1:68-721Ch 17:23-271Ch 28:9 And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father. 2Sa 7:25-291Ki 8:23Isa 41:17Psa 119:49Psa 41:131Sa 1:172Ch 1:9Exo 24:10 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded? Isa 66:12Ch 2:6Jer 23:242Ch 6:18Act 7:48-49Psa 139:7-16Deu 10:14Jhn 1:14 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day: Luk 18:12Ch 6:19Dan 9:17-19Luk 18:7Psa 141:2Psa 4:1Psa 5:1Psa 86:3 That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place. 7 2Ch 6:202Ch 7:15-161Ki 8:16Deu 12:11Neh 1:62Ch 33:42Ch 6:5-62Ki 23:27 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive. 8 1Ki 8:341Ki 8:361Ki 8:39Dan 9:19Ecc 5:2Isa 57:15Psa 130:3-41Ki 8:43
¶ If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house: 9 Exo 22:8-112Ch 6:22-23Lev 5:1Num 5:16-22Pro 30:9 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. Deu 25:1Exo 34:7Ezk 18:13Ezk 18:20Isa 3:10-11Rom 2:6-10Exo 23:7Ezk 18:30
¶ When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house: 10 Lev 26:17Deu 28:252Ch 6:24-25Deu 28:48Jon 3:10Lev 26:25Lev 26:39-422Ch 36:14-17 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers. Dan 9:191Ki 8:30Amo 7:2Dan 9:12Exo 6:8Ezr 1:1-6Gen 13:15Jer 31:27
¶ When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: 1Ki 8:33Deu 11:17Lev 26:192Sa 24:13Luk 4:25Rev 11:61Ki 17:11Ki 8:29-30 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance. 1Sa 12:23Psa 27:11Jer 6:161Ki 18:11Ki 18:45Jer 14:22Psa 25:4-5Psa 94:12
¶ If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; 11 Deu 28:21-22Lev 26:162Ch 20:9Deu 28:38-421Ch 21:122Ch 6:28-312Ki 6:25-29Deu 28:25 What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: 1Ki 8:22Amo 7:1-6Php 4:6Psa 73:21-222Ch 20:5-13Isa 1:15Isa 37:15-21Isa 37:4 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;) 1Ch 28:9Jer 17:101Sa 16:7Act 1:241Ki 8:321Ki 8:362Ch 6:30Heb 4:12-13 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers. Psa 130:4Rev 19:51Sa 12:24Act 10:2Deu 6:13Deu 6:2Exo 20:20Gen 22:12 Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake; 1Ki 10:1-2Act 8:27-40Exo 18:8-12Isa 56:3-72Ch 6:322Ki 5:1-72Ki 5:16-17Act 10:1-4 (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house; Deu 3:242Ch 32:312Ki 17:36Act 8:27Dan 2:47Dan 3:28Dan 4:37Deu 11:2-3 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name. 12 1Sa 17:46Psa 102:15Psa 86:92Ki 19:19Isa 11:9Psa 22:27Psa 67:22Ch 6:33
¶ If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name: 13 2Ch 6:34Psa 78:67-691Ki 8:16Dan 9:17-19Psa 132:13-141Sa 15:181Sa 15:31Sa 30:8 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. 14 Gen 18:25Psa 9:4Jer 5:28 If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near; Ecc 7:20Pro 20:91Jn 1:8-10Isa 53:6Isa 64:6Rom 3:23Psa 130:3Jas 3:2 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; 15 Psa 106:6Ezr 9:6-7Neh 1:6-11Neh 9:26-302Ch 33:12-13Deu 30:1-2Deu 4:29-31Lev 26:40-45 And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name: Dan 6:10Deu 4:29Jer 29:12-141Sa 7:3-4Jon 2:4Neh 1:91Ki 8:29-30Act 8:36 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause, 16 1Ki 8:452Ki 19:19Zec 1:15-16 And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them: Psa 106:462Ch 30:9Act 7:10Dan 1:9-10Ezr 7:27-28Ezr 7:6Neh 1:11Neh 2:4-8 For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron: Deu 4:20Jer 11:4Neh 1:10Deu 9:26-29Exo 32:11-12Jer 51:19Num 14:13-191Ki 8:53 That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee. Psa 145:181Ki 8:29Psa 86:52Ch 6:40 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD. Exo 19:5-6Deu 14:2Deu 32:91Pe 2:92Co 6:14-18Deu 33:1-3Deu 33:26-29Deu 4:34
And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. 2Ch 6:12-132Ch 7:1Luk 22:45Psa 95:61Ki 8:22Act 20:36Act 21:5Luk 11:1 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, 1Ki 8:142Sa 6:18Num 6:23-261Ch 16:2 Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant. 17 Jos 23:14-15Jos 21:44-451Sa 3:19Luk 21:33Luk 1:72-732Ki 10:10Deu 12:10Deu 3:20 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us: Jos 1:5Deu 31:6Deu 31:8Heb 13:5Jos 1:91Sa 12:221Ch 28:9Mat 1:23 That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers. Psa 119:36Ezk 36:26-27Jer 31:33Php 2:13Heb 13:21Deu 4:1Deu 4:45Deu 6:1 And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require: 18 Jhn 17:9Psa 141:21Jn 2:2Deu 33:25Jhn 17:20-24Luk 11:3Psa 102:1-2 That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else. Deu 4:351Ki 18:392Ki 19:19Jer 10:10-12Isa 44:6Isa 44:8Isa 45:22Isa 45:5-6 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day. 1Ki 11:42Ki 20:31Ki 15:141Ki 15:32Co 7:1Deu 18:131Ch 28:9Job 1:8
¶ And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD. 2Sa 6:17-192Ch 7:4-10Ezr 6:16-17 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. Ezr 6:16-172Ch 15:11Neh 12:271Ch 29:212Ch 2:42Ch 29:32-352Ch 30:242Ch 35:7-9 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings. 2Ch 4:12Ch 7:7 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days. Num 34:51Ki 8:2Num 34:82Ch 7:8-92Ki 14:25Gen 15:18Jdg 3:3Jos 13:5 On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people. 19 Act 2:46Deu 12:12Deu 12:7Gal 5:22Php 4:4Zec 9:171Ki 8:11Ki 8:47