Then Solomon said, “The LORD has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. Exo 20:21Psa 18:8-11Lev 16:21Ki 8:12-50Deu 4:11Heb 12:18Nam 1:3Exo 24:15-18 But I have built you a house and home, a place for you to dwell in forever.” 2Ch 2:4-61Ch 17:121Ch 22:10-111Ch 28:201Ch 28:61Ki 8:132Sa 7:13Heb 9:11-12
The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood. 1Ki 8:141Ch 16:21Ki 8:55-612Ch 29:29Jos 22:6Luk 24:50-51Mat 13:2Neh 8:5-7
He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying, Mat 24:35Psa 68:32-35Psa 72:18-191Ch 17:121Ch 29:101Ch 29:201Ki 8:15Eph 1:3 ‘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 to build a house in, that my name might be there, and I chose no man to be prince over my people Israel; 1Ki 8:161Sa 10:241Sa 13:13-141Sa 15:232Sa 7:15-162Sa 7:6-7Dan 9:19Deu 12:11 but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’ 1Ch 28:4Psa 132:132Ch 12:13Psa 48:1Psa 78:68-701Sa 16:1Isa 14:32Psa 89:19-20 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 1Ch 17:11Ki 5:31Ch 22:71Ch 28:2-41Ki 8:172Sa 7:2-3 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; 1Ki 8:18-212Co 8:12Mrk 14:8 nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’ 1Ch 17:11-121Ch 17:42Sa 7:12-13
“The LORD has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and 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 17:111Ch 28:51Ch 29:151Ch 29:231Ki 2:121Ki 3:6-72Ch 1:1Ecc 1:4 There I have set the ark, in which is the LORD’s covenant, which he made with the children of Israel.” 2Ch 5:102Ch 5:71Ki 8:211Ki 8:9Exo 40:20Heb 9:4
He stood before the LORD’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands Exo 9:33Isa 50:10Job 11:13Psa 143:6Psa 63:41Ki 8:22-531Ti 2:82Ki 11:14 (for Solomon had made a bronze platform, five cubits 1 long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the middle of the court; and he stood on it, and knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven). 1Ki 8:54Neh 8:4Ezr 9:5Psa 95:61Ki 6:361Ki 7:122Ch 4:9Act 20:36 Then he said, “LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth—you who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants who walk before you with all their heart; Exo 15:11Deu 7:91Th 2:12Luk 1:54-55Neh 1:5Psa 89:28Psa 89:6Psa 89:8 who have 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. 1Ch 22:9-101Ki 8:242Sa 7:12
“Now therefore, LORD, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’ 1Ki 2:42Ch 7:18Jhn 15:14-15Psa 132:122Sa 7:12-16Psa 119:1Ezk 36:371Ki 6:12 Now therefore, LORD, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David. Jer 11:52Ch 6:142Ch 6:42Sa 7:25-29Exo 24:10Isa 41:17Isa 45:3
“But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house which I have built! 2Ch 2:6Isa 66:1Psa 139:7-102Ch 32:152Co 12:2Act 17:24Act 7:48-49Psa 113:5-6 Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you; 1Ki 8:28Dan 9:17-19Jhn 17:20Luk 18:1-7Psa 130:2Psa 20:1-3Psa 4:1Psa 5:1-2 that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name, to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray toward this place. Psa 34:152Ch 6:6Dan 6:10Psa 121:5Deu 12:11Deu 26:2Neh 1:61Ki 8:29-30 Listen to the petitions of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive. Mic 7:18Dan 9:19Isa 43:252Ch 6:392Ch 30:27Psa 130:3-4Ecc 5:2Isa 57:15
“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 22:111Ki 8:31-32Lev 5:1Mat 23:18Num 5:19-22Pro 30:9 then hear from heaven, act, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. Ezk 18:20Isa 3:10-11Jer 51:56Pro 17:15Rom 2:9-102Ki 9:26Deu 25:1Jer 28:16-17
“If your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house, Lev 26:171Ki 8:33-342Ki 17:7-18Dan 9:3-19Deu 28:25Deu 28:48Deu 30:1-6Deu 4:29-31 then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers. Jer 33:6-13Exo 6:8Ezr 1:1-6Gen 13:15Jos 21:43Psa 106:40-47
“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, Deu 11:17Deu 28:23Lev 26:191Ki 17:1-182Ch 33:12-13Amo 4:4-9Ezk 14:13Ezk 18:27-32 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 send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance. 1Ki 8:35-36Jer 5:24Psa 94:12Zec 10:11Ki 18:40-45Ezk 34:26Hos 2:21-22Isa 30:21
“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is— Jas 5:13Jol 2:25Rev 9:3-11Rut 1:11Ki 8:37-402Ch 12:2-52Ch 20:5-132Ch 32:1 whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who will each know his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread out his hands toward this house, 2Ch 6:12-13Pro 14:10Psa 142:1-2Psa 32:2-6Psa 33:12-13Psa 50:15Psa 91:15Isa 1:15 then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men), 1Ch 28:91Sa 16:7Rev 2:23Heb 4:13Mat 16:271Ch 29:171Ki 8:39Ezk 18:30 that they may fear you, to walk in your ways as long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers. 1Sa 12:24Act 9:31Exo 20:20Job 28:28Psa 128:1Psa 130:4
“Moreover, concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for your great name’s sake and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when they come and pray toward this house, Isa 56:3-71Ki 8:41-43Mat 8:10-11Act 10:1-4Eph 2:12-13Jhn 12:20Zec 14:16-17Act 2:10 then hear from heaven, even from 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 and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name. 2Ch 7:141Ki 8:161Sa 17:462Ki 19:19Isa 11:10Isa 49:6Isa 54:1-3Jer 10:7
“If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name; 2Ch 20:6-131Ki 8:131Ki 8:44-451Sa 15:181Sa 15:32Ch 14:9-122Ch 18:312Ch 20:4 then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. Dan 9:17-19Isa 37:21-36Jer 5:28Psa 9:3-4
“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 a land far off or near; 1Jn 1:8-10Ecc 7:20Jas 3:2Job 15:14-16Psa 130:3Psa 143:21Ki 8:461Ki 8:50 yet if they come to their senses in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;’ Dan 9:5-11Isa 64:6-12Jer 31:18-20Luk 15:17-19Deu 30:1-3Deu 4:29-30Ezr 9:6-7Jer 3:12-14 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been taken captive, and pray toward their land which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name; 2Ch 33:11-132Ch 6:34Dan 6:10Dan 9:3-4Deu 30:2-6Hos 14:1-4Jer 29:12-14Jol 2:12-13 then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you. 2Ch 6:35Mic 7:18-20Psa 25:18Zec 1:15-16
“Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive to the prayer that is made in this place. 2Ch 7:15Psa 116:2Neh 1:6Psa 17:1Neh 1:112Ch 16:9Dan 9:16-19Isa 37:17
“Now therefore arise, LORD God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness. 1Ch 28:2Isa 61:10Eph 4:22-24Gal 3:27Isa 61:3Isa 61:6Isa 66:1Neh 9:25
“LORD God, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant.” Isa 55:3Psa 132:11Ki 1:341Ki 2:16Act 13:34Isa 61:1Psa 132:10Psa 2:2