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The First Book of Kings 8

8 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all of the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers of the sons of Israel, to King Solomon at Jerusalem, to bring up the Box of the Covenant of Yahweh from the City of David (it is Zion). 2 And all of the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon in the month of Ethanim, at the feast (it is the seventh month). 3 And all of the elders of Israel came, and the priests carried the Box. 4 And they brought up the Box of Yahweh and the tent of meeting and all of the vessels of holiness that were in the tent. And the priests and the Levites brought them up. 5 And King Solomon and all of the congregation of Israel, the ones having congregated themselves to him, who were with him to the face of the Box, were sacrificing sheep and cattle that were not counted and were not numbered from abundance. 6 And the priests brought the Box of the Covenant of Yahweh into its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, into the Holy of Holies, to beneath the wings of the cherubs. 7 For the cherubs were spreading wings toward the place of the Box, and the cherubs covered over the Box and over its poles from above. 8 And the poles were long, and the heads of the poles were seen from the Holy Place, at the face of the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen on the outside. And they are there to this day. 9 Nothing was in the Box except the two tablets of stone that Moses had placed there at Horeb, where Yahweh cut with the sons of Israel when they came out from the land of Egypt. 10 And it happened, when the priests came out from the Holy Place, that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh. 11 And the priests were not able to stand to minister from the face of the cloud, for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh.

12 Then Solomon said, “Yahweh said he would dwell in a dark cloud. 13 Building, I have built a house of habitation for you, a place for your dwelling for ages.” 14 And the king turned his face around, and he blessed all of the assembly of Israel. Now all of the assembly of Israel was standing. 15 And he said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke by his mouth to David my father and fulfilled by his hand, saying, 16 ‘From the day when I brought out my people, Israel, from Egypt, I did not choose a city from all of the tribes of Israel to build a house for my name to be there. But I chose David to be over my people Israel.’ 17 And it was with the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 18 But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was with your heart. 19 However, you, you will not build the house, but rather your son coming out from your loins, he, he will build the house for my name.’ 20 And Yahweh has raised up his word that he spoke. And I have arisen in place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, just as Yahweh spoke. And I have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 21 And I have made a place there for the Box where the Covenant of Yahweh is there, which he cut with our fathers when he brought them out from the land of Egypt.”

22 And Solomon stood to the face of the altar of Yahweh, in front of all of the assembly of Israel. And he spread out his palms to the heavens, 23 and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, no god is like you in the heavens from above or on the earth from below, keeping the covenant and covenant faithfulness with your servants walking to your face with all of their heart, 24 which you have kept for your servant David, my father, what you spoke to him. And you spoke with your mouth, and by your hand you fulfilled, as this day. 25 And now, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep for your servant David, my father, what you spoke to him, saying, ‘A man to you will not be cut off from to my face, sitting on the throne of Israel, if only your sons will keep their way, to walk to my face just as you have walked to my face.’ 26 And now, God of Israel, may your word please be confirmed that you spoke to your servant David, my father.

27 But will God truly dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens and the heavens of the heavens do not contain you. How much less this house that I have built! 28 Yet may you turn to the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer that your servant is praying to your face today, 29 that your eyes may be opened to this house night and day, to the place about which you have said, ‘My name will be there,’ to listen to the prayer that your servant will pray toward this place. 30 And may you listen to the supplication of your servant and your people Israel that they will pray toward this place. And you, may you hear in the place of your dwelling, in the heavens, and may you hear and forgive.

31 Whoever sins, a man against his neighbor, and he lifts an oath against him to adjure him, and an oath comes to the face of your altar in this house, 32 then you, may you hear in the heavens and act and judge your servants, to condemn the wicked, to put his way on his head, and to acquit the righteous, to give to him according to his righteousness.

33 When your people Israel are struck to the face of an enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn back to you and they confess your name and they pray and they supplicate toward you in this house, 34 then you, may you hear in the heavens, and may you forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them back to the land that you gave to their fathers.

35 When the heavens are restrained and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, and they pray toward this place and they confess your name and they turn back from their sin because you have afflicted them, 36 then you, may you hear in the heavens, and may you forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, for you teach the good way in which they should walk. And may you give rain on your land that you have given to your people for an inheritance.

37 If famine is in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust, grasshopper, if his enemy makes it narrow to him in the land of his gates, any plague, any sickness, 38 any prayer, any supplication that is to any man, to any of your people Israel who know, a man the plague of his heart, and he spreads out his palms toward this house, 39 then you, may you hear in the heavens, the place of your dwelling, and may you forgive, and may you act and give to a man according to all of his ways, for you know his heart. For you, you know, you alone, the heart of all of the sons of man, 40 so that they may fear you all of the days that they are alive on the face of the land that you gave to our fathers.

41 And also, concerning the foreigner, he who is not from your people Israel, and he comes from a distant land because of your name, 42 for they will hear about your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, and he will come and pray toward this house, 43 you, may you hear in the heavens, the place of your dwelling, and may you act according to all that the foreigner has cried out to you, so that all of the peoples of the earth will know your name, to fear you as your people Israel do and to know that your name has been called over this house that I have built.

44 If your people goes out to battle against its enemy by the way that you send them, and they pray to Yahweh in the way of the city upon which you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name, 45 then may you hear in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and may you do their justice.

46 If they sin against you (for there is no man who does not sin) and you are angry with them and you give them to the face of an enemy and they take them captive as their captives to the land of the enemy, distant or near, 47 and they bring back to their heart in the land where they have been taken captive there, and they turn back and supplicate to you in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done iniquity, we have acted wickedly,’ 48 and they return to you with all of their heart and with all of their soul in the land of their enemies where they took them captive, and they pray to you in the way of their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name, 49 then may you hear in the heavens, the place of your dwelling, their prayer and their supplication, and may you do their justice. 50 And may you forgive your people who have sinned against you and all of their transgressions that they have transgressed against you. And may you give them compassion to the face of their captors, and may they have compassion on them. 51 For they are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out from Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron, 52 for your eyes to be opened to the supplication of your servant and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them in all of their crying out to you. 53 For you, you separated them for yourself as an inheritance from all of the peoples of the earth, just as you spoke by the hand of Moses your servant when you brought out our fathers from Egypt, my Lord Yahweh.”

54 And it happened that when Solomon finished praying to Yahweh all of this prayer and supplication, he arose from to the face of the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his palms spread out toward the heavens. 55 And he stood, and he blessed all of the assembly of Israel in a great voice, saying, 56 “Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he spoke. One word has not fallen from all of his good word that he spoke by the hand of Moses his servant. 57 May Yahweh our God be with us, just as he was with our fathers. May he not forsake us and may he not abandon us, 58 may he stretch out our heart to him, to walk in all of his ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers. 59 And may these my words, which I have supplicated to the face of Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God by day and by night, to do the justice of his servant and the justice of his people Israel, the matter of a day in its day, 60 so that all of the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God, there is no other! 61 And may your heart be complete with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes and to keep his commandments, as this day.”

62 And the king and all of Israel with him were sacrificing sacrifices to the face of Yahweh. 63 And Solomon sacrificed a sacrifice of peace offerings that he sacrificed to Yahweh, 22, 000 cattle and 120, 000 sheep. And the king and all of the sons of Israel dedicated the house of Yahweh. 64 On that day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard that was to the face of the house of Yahweh, so that there he made the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings, for the altar of bronze that was to the face of Yahweh was small from the containing of the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings. 65 And Solomon observed the feast at that time, and all of Israel with him, a great assembly, from Lebo Hamath to the wadi of Egypt, to the face of Yahweh our God, seven days and seven days, fourteen days. 66 On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king, and they went to their tents rejoicing and good of heart over all of the good that Yahweh had done for David his servant and for Israel his people.

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