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1 Kings 8 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:1 - Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the city of David, which is Zion.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:2 - And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, that is, the seventh month.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:3 - And all the elders of Israel came; and the priests took up the ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:4 - And they brought up the ark of Jehovah, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent: the priests and the Levites brought them up.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:5 - And king Solomon, and all the assembly of Israel that were assembled to him, who were with him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:6 - And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah to its place, into the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:7 - for the cherubim stretched forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its staves above.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:8 - And the staves were long, so that the ends of the staves were seen from the holy place before the oracle, but they were not seen without. And there they are to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:9 - There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Moses placed there at Horeb, when Jehovah made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:10 - And it came to pass when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Jehovah,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:11 - and the priests could not stand to do their service because of the cloud; for the glory of Jehovah had filled the house of Jehovah.

Solomon Addresses the People

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:12 - Then said Solomon: Jehovah said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:13 - I have indeed built a house of habitation for thee, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
(2Ch 6:3–11 )

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:14 - And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel; and the whole congregation of Israel stood.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:15 - And he said: Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:16 - 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 a house in, that my name might be there; but I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:17 - And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house unto the name of Jehovah the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:18 - But Jehovah said to David my father, Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thy heart;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:19 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:20 - And Jehovah has performed his word which he spoke; and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah promised, and I have built the house unto the name of Jehovah the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:21 - And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of Jehovah, which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

The Prayer of Dedication

(2Ch 6:12–39 )

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:22 - And Solomon stood before the altar of Jehovah in the presence of the whole congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:23 - And he said, Jehovah, God of Israel! there is no God like thee, in the heavens above, or on the earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:24 - who hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou didst promise him; thou spokest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thy hand, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:25 - And now, Jehovah, God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only thy sons take heed to their way, to walk before me as thou hast walked before me.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:26 - And now, O God of Israel, let thy words, I pray thee, be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David my father.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:27 - But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens, and the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:28 - Yet have respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, Jehovah, my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee this day;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:29 - that thine eyes may be open upon this house night and day, upon the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:30 - And hearken unto the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place, and hear thou in thy dwelling-place, in the heavens, and when thou hearest, forgive.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:31 - If a man have sinned against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to adjure him, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:32 - then hear thou in the heavens, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head; and justifying the righteous, giving him according to his righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:33 - When thy people Israel are put to the worse 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;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:34 - then hear thou in the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land that thou gavest unto their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:35 - When the heavens are 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, because thou hast afflicted them;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:36 - then hear thou in the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou teachest them the good way wherein they should walk; and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37 - If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight, mildew, locust, caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their gates; whatever plague, whatever sickness there be:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:38 - what prayer, what supplication soever be made by any man, of all thy people Israel, when they shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:39 - then hear thou in the heavens, the settled place of thy dwelling, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest (for thou, thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men),

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:40 - that they may fear thee all the days that they live upon the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:41 - And as to the stranger also, who is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:42 - (for they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy mighty hand, and of thy stretched-out arm); when he shall come and pray toward this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:43 - hear thou in the heavens thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; in order that all peoples of the earth may know thy name, and that they may fear thee as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:44 - If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray to Jehovah toward the city that thou hast chosen, and the house that I have built unto thy name;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:45 - then hear thou in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their right.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:46

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:46 - If they have sinned against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and give them up to the enemy, and they have carried them away captives unto the enemy's land, far or near;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:47 - and if they shall take it to heart in the land whither they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done iniquity, we have dealt perversely;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:48 - and if they return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city that thou hast chosen, and the house that I have built unto thy name;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:49 - then hear thou in the heavens, the settled place of thy dwelling, their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their right;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:50 - and forgive thy people their sin against thee, and all their transgressions whereby they have transgressed against thee, and give them to find compassion with those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:51 - (for they are thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron) --

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:52 - thine eyes being 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:53

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:53 - For thou hast separated them from among all peoples of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spokest through Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord Jehovah.

Solomon's Benediction

(2Ch 6:40–42 )

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:54 - And it was so, that when Solomon had ended praying all this prayer and supplication to Jehovah, he arose from before the altar of Jehovah, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth to the heavens,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:55 - and he stood and blessed the whole congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:56

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:56 - Blessed be Jehovah, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there has not failed one word of all his good promises which he spoke through Moses his servant!

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:57 - Jehovah our God be with us, as he was with our fathers; let him not forsake us nor cast us off:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:58

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:58 - that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:59

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:59 - And let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Jehovah, be nigh to Jehovah our God day and night, that he maintain the right of his servant, and the right of his people Israel, as the matter of each day shall require;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:60 - that all peoples of the earth may know that Jehovah is God, that there is none else;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:61

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:61 - and that your heart may be perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in his statutes and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

Dedicatory Sacrifices

(2Ch 7:4–11 )

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:62 - And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifices before Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:63 - And Solomon sacrificed a sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he sacrificed to Jehovah, twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:64 - The same day the king hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of Jehovah; for there he offered the burnt-offerings, and the oblations, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar that was before Jehovah was too small to receive the burnt-offerings, and the oblations, and the fat of the peace-offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:65 - And at that time Solomon held the feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entrance of Hamath unto the torrent of Egypt, before Jehovah our God, seven days and seven days, fourteen days.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:66 - On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that Jehovah had done to David his servant, and to Israel his people.
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