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1 Kings 8 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:1 - Then Shlomo assembled the Zakenim of Yisra'el, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' houses of the children of Yisra'el, to king Shlomo in Yerushalayim, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Tziyon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:2 - All the men of Yisra'el assembled themselves to king Shlomo at the feast, in the month Etanim, which is the seventh month.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:3 - All the Zakenim of Yisra'el came, and the Kohanim took up the ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:4 - They brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these did the Kohanim and the Levites bring up.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:5 - King Shlomo and all the congregation of Yisra'el, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:6 - The Kohanim brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the Keruvim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:7 - For the Keruvim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the Keruvim covered the ark and the poles of it above.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:8 - The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there they are to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:9 - There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Moshe put there at Horev, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Yisra'el, when they came out of the land of Mitzrayim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:10 - It came to pass, when the Kohanim were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:11 - so that the Kohanim could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.

Solomon Addresses the People

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:12 - Then spoke Shlomo, the LORD has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:13 - I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.
(2Ch 6:3–11 )

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:14 - The king turned his face about, and blessed all the assembly of Yisra'el: and all the assembly of Yisra'el stood.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:15 - He said, Blessed be the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has 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 Yisra'el out of Mitzrayim, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Yisra'el to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:17 - Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:18 - 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:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:19 - nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:20 - The LORD has established his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Yisra'el, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:21 - There have I set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Mitzrayim.

The Prayer of Dedication

(2Ch 6:12–39 )

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:22 - Shlomo stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Yisra'el, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:23 - and he said, LORD, the God of Yisra'el, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on eretz beneath; who keep covenant and lovingkindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:24 - who have kept with your servant David my father that which you did promise him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:25 - Now therefore, LORD, the God of Yisra'el, 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 Yisra'el, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:26 - Now therefore, God of Yisra'el, Please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:27 - But will God in very deed dwell on the eretz? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:28 - 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 this day;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:29 - that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place whereof you have said, My name shall be there; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:30 - Listen you to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Yisra'el, when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling-place; and when you hear, forgive.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:31 - If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid on him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before your altar in this house;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:32 - then hear you in heaven, and do, 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:33 - When your people Yisra'el 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:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:34 - then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Yisra'el, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:35 - 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 do afflict them:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:36 - then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Yisra'el, 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:37

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:38 - whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all your people Yisra'el, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:39 - then hear in heaven, your dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render 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;)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:40 - that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:41 - Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Yisra'el, when he shall come out of a far country for your name's sake

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:42

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:43 - hear in heaven, your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the eretz may know your name, to fear you, as does your people Yisra'el, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by my name.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:44

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:44 - 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;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:45

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:45 - then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:46

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:46 - 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;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:47

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:47 - yet if they shall repent themselves 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;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:48 - 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:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:49

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:49 - then hear you their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling-place, and maintain their cause;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:50

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:50 - 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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:51 - (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of Mitzrayim, from the midst of the furnace of iron);

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:52

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:52 - that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Yisra'el, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:53

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:53 - For you did separate them from among all the peoples of the eretz, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moshe your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Mitzrayim, Lord GOD.

Solomon's Benediction

(2Ch 6:40–42 )

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:54 - It was so, that when Shlomo had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:55

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:55 - He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Yisra'el with a loud voice, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:56

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:56 - Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to his people Yisra'el, according to all that he promised: there has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moshe his servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:57

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:57 - The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us;

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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 mitzvot, 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 - 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 maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Yisra'el, as every day shall require;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:60

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:60 - that all the peoples of the eretz may know that the LORD, he is God; there is none else.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:61

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:61 - Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his mitzvot, as at this day.

Dedicatory Sacrifices

(2Ch 7:4–11 )

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:62 - The king, and all Yisra'el with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:63

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:63 - Shlomo offered for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he offered to the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Yisra'el dedicated the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:64 - The same day did the king make the middle of the court holy that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:65 - So Shlomo held the feast at that time, and all Yisra'el with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamat to the brook of Mitzrayim, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even 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 the LORD had shown to David his servant, and to Yisra'el his people.
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