Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion. 2Ch 5:2-101Ch 15:252Sa 6:12-171Ch 11:71Ch 13:1-51Ch 15:291Ch 15:31Ch 28:1 All the men of Israel assembled themselves to 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 All the elders of Israel came, and the priests picked up the ark. Deu 31:9Jos 3:6Jos 3:3Num 4:151Ch 15:11-151Ch 15:22Ch 5:5-8Jos 3:14-15 They brought up the LORD’s ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent. The priests and the Levites brought these up. 1Ki 3:42Ch 1:3Exo 40:2-33 King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered for multitude. 2Sa 6:131Ch 16:11Ki 8:62-63 The priests brought in the ark of the LORD’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings. 1Ki 6:191Ki 6:272Sa 6:17Exo 26:33-341Ki 8:41Sa 4:42Ch 5:72Sa 6:2 For the cherubim spread their wings out over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above. The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen outside. They are there to this day. Exo 25:13-15Exo 37:4-52Ch 5:9Exo 40:20Jos 4:9Mat 28:15 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets 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. Exo 25:21Heb 9:4Exo 40:20Deu 10:2-52Ch 5:102Ch 7:1-3Deu 4:13Exo 34:27-28 It came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the LORD’s house, 2Ch 7:1-2Exo 40:34-35 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the LORD’s glory filled the LORD’s house. Ezk 43:4-5Ezk 44:42Co 3:182Co 4:6Lev 9:23Ezk 43:2Jhn 1:14Rev 21:23
Then Solomon said, “The LORD has 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 you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.” 2Sa 7:13Exo 15:17Heb 9:24Psa 132:13-141Ch 17:121Ch 22:10-111Ch 28:101Ch 28:20
The king turned his face around and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood. 2Sa 6:181Ch 16:21Ki 8:55-562Ch 30:18-202Ch 6:32Ch 7:6Jos 22:6Luk 24:50-51 He said, “Blessed is the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has 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 my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; 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
“Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 2Sa 7:2-31Ch 17:1-151Ch 22:71Ch 28:2 But the LORD said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart. 2Ch 6:7-92Co 8:12 Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’ 1Ch 22:8-102Sa 7:51Ch 17:11-121Ch 28:62Sa 7:12-131Ch 17:41Ki 5:3-5 The LORD has established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 1Ch 28:5-61Ki 8:15Ezk 12:25Ezk 37:14Isa 9:7Jer 29:10-11Mic 7:20Neh 9:8 There I have set a place for the ark, in which is the LORD’s covenant, 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
Solomon stood before the LORD’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out 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, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants who walk before you with all their heart; 2Sa 7:22Deu 7:9Dan 9:4Neh 1:51Sa 2:2Neh 9:32Exo 15:11Isa 40:25 who has kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today. 2Sa 7:161Ki 8:152Sa 7:122Ch 6:14-15 Now therefore, may LORD, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’ 1Ki 2:41Ki 9:4-62Ch 6:16-17Jer 33:17-262Sa 7:27-29Luk 1:68-721Ch 17:23-271Ch 28:9
“Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your 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 in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built! Isa 66:12Ch 2:6Jer 23:242Ch 6:18Act 7:48-49Psa 139:7-16Deu 10:14Jhn 1:14 Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant and for his supplication, LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today; Luk 18:12Ch 6:19Dan 9:17-19Luk 18:7Psa 141:2Psa 4:1Psa 5:1Psa 86:3 that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place. 2Ch 6:202Ch 7:15-161Ki 8:16Deu 12:11Neh 1:62Ch 33:42Ch 6:5-62Ki 23:27 Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive. 1Ki 8:341Ki 8:361Ki 8:39Dan 9:19Ecc 5:2Isa 57:15Psa 130:3-41Ki 8:43
“If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house, Exo 22:8-112Ch 6:22-23Lev 5:1Num 5:16-22Pro 30:9 then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own 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 your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, if they turn again to you and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house, Lev 26:17Deu 28:252Ch 6:24-25Deu 28:48Jon 3:10Lev 26:25Lev 26:39-422Ch 36:14-17 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers. Dan 9:191Ki 8:30Amo 7:2Dan 9:12Exo 6:8Ezr 1:1-6Gen 13:15Jer 31:27
“When the sky is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and confess your name, and turn from their sin when you afflict them, 1Ki 8:33Deu 11:17Lev 26:192Sa 24:13Luk 4:25Rev 11:61Ki 17:11Ki 8:29-30 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land which you have given to your people for an inheritance. 1Sa 12:23Psa 27:11Jer 6:161Ki 18:11Ki 18:45Jer 14:22Psa 25:4-5Psa 94:12
“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is, Deu 28:21-22Lev 26:162Ch 20:9Deu 28:38-421Ch 21:122Ch 6:28-312Ki 6:25-29Deu 28:25 whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out 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 in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know 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 you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers. Psa 130:4Rev 19:51Sa 12:24Act 10:2Deu 6:13Deu 6:2Exo 20:20Gen 22:12
“Moreover, concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a far country for your 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 your great name and of your mighty hand and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house, Deu 3:242Ch 32:312Ki 17:36Act 8:27Dan 2:47Dan 3:28Dan 4:37Deu 11:2-3 hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name. 1Sa 17:46Psa 102:15Psa 86:92Ki 19:19Isa 11:9Psa 22:27Psa 67:22Ch 6:33
“If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the LORD toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name, 2Ch 6:34Psa 78:67-691Ki 8:16Dan 9:17-19Psa 132:13-141Sa 15:181Sa 15:31Sa 30:8 then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. Gen 18:25Psa 9:4Jer 5:28 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near; Ecc 7:20Pro 20:91Jn 1:8-10Isa 53:6Isa 64:6Rom 3:23Psa 130:3Jas 3:2 yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly,’ Psa 106:6Ezr 9:6-7Neh 1:6-11Neh 9:26-302Ch 33:12-13Deu 30:1-2Deu 4:29-31Lev 26:40-45 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen and the house which I have built for your name, Dan 6:10Deu 4:29Jer 29:12-141Sa 7:3-4Jon 2:4Neh 1:91Ki 8:29-30Act 8:36 then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause; 1Ki 8:452Ki 19:19Zec 1:15-16 and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those 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 are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace); Deu 4:20Jer 11:4Neh 1:10Deu 9:26-29Exo 32:11-12Jer 51:19Num 14:13-191Ki 8:53 that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you. Psa 145:181Ki 8:29Psa 86:52Ch 6:40 For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord GOD.” Exo 19:5-6Deu 14:2Deu 32:91Pe 2:92Co 6:14-18Deu 33:1-3Deu 33:26-29Deu 4:34
It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to the LORD, he arose from before the LORD’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven. 2Ch 6:12-132Ch 7:1Luk 22:45Psa 95:61Ki 8:22Act 20:36Act 21:5Luk 11:1 He stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying, 1Ki 8:142Sa 6:18Num 6:23-261Ch 16:2 “Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant. Jos 23:14-15Jos 21:44-451Sa 3:19Luk 21:33Luk 1:72-732Ki 10:10Deu 12:10Deu 3:20 May the LORD our God be with us as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or 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 to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers. Psa 119:36Ezk 36:26-27Jer 31:33Php 2:13Heb 13:21Deu 4:1Deu 4:45Deu 6:1 Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as every day requires; Jhn 17:9Psa 141:21Jn 2:2Deu 33:25Jhn 17:20-24Luk 11:3Psa 102:1-2 that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD himself is God. There is no one 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 it is today.” 1Ki 11:42Ki 20:31Ki 15:141Ki 15:32Co 7:1Deu 18:131Ch 28:9Job 1:8
The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD. 2Sa 6:17-192Ch 7:4-10Ezr 6:16-17 Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the LORD, twenty two thousand head of cattle and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the LORD’s house. Ezr 6:16-172Ch 15:11Neh 12:271Ch 29:212Ch 2:42Ch 29:32-352Ch 30:242Ch 35:7-9 The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before the LORD’s house; for there he offered the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings. 2Ch 4:12Ch 7:7
So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven more 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 to their tents joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness that the LORD had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people. Act 2:46Deu 12:12Deu 12:7Gal 5:22Php 4:4Zec 9:171Ki 8:11Ki 8:47