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1 Kings 8 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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The Ark Brought into the Temple
The Ark Brought into the Temple
(2 Chr. 5:2—6:2 )

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:1 - Now Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the City of David, which is Zion.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:2 - Therefore all the men of Israel assembled with King Solomon at the feast in the month of Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:4 - Then they brought up the ark of the LORD, the tabernacle of meeting, and all the holy furnishings that were in the tabernacle. The priests and the Levites brought them up.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:5 - Also King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel who were assembled with him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:6 - Then the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the temple, to the Most Holy Place, under the wings of the cherubim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:7 - For the cherubim spread their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:8 - The poles extended so that the ends of the poles could be seen from the holy place, in front of the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:9 - Nothing was in the ark except the two tablets of stone 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:10 - And it came to pass, when the priests came 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 priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:12 - Then Solomon spoke:

“The LORD said He would dwell in the dark cloud.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:13 - I have surely built You an exalted house,
And a place for You to dwell in forever.”
Solomon’s Speech at Completion of the Work
(2 Chr. 6:3–11 )

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:14 - Then the king turned around and blessed the whole assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel was standing.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:15 - And he said: “Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my father David, and with His hand has fulfilled it, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:16 - ‘Since the day that I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have chosen no city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house, that My name might be there; but I chose David to be over My people Israel.’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:17 - “Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a temple[fn] for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:18 - “But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a temple for My name, you did well that it was in your heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:19 - ‘Nevertheless you shall not build the temple, but your son who will come from your body, he shall build the temple for My name.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:20 - “So the LORD has fulfilled His word which He spoke; and I have filled the position of my father David, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised; and I have built a temple for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:21 - “And there I have made 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 Egypt.”
Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication
(2 Chr. 6:12–39 )

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:22 - Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:23 - and he said: “LORD God of Israel, there is no God in heaven above or on earth below like You, who keep Your covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:24 - “You have kept what You promised Your servant David my father; You have both spoken with Your mouth and fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:25 - “Therefore, LORD God of Israel, now keep what You promised Your servant David my father, saying, ‘You shall not fail to have a man sit before Me on the throne of Israel, only if your sons take heed to their way, that they walk before Me as you have walked before Me.’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:26 - “And now I pray, O God of Israel, let Your word come true, which You have spoken to Your servant David my father.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:27 - “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:28 - “Yet regard the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O LORD my God, and listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You today:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:29 - “that Your eyes may be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that You may hear the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:30 - “And may You hear the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Hear in heaven Your dwelling place; and when You hear, forgive.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:31 - “When anyone sins against his neighbor, and is forced to take an oath, and comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this temple,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:32 - “then hear in heaven, and act, and judge Your servants, condemning the wicked, bringing his way on his head, and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:33 - “When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and when they turn back to You and confess Your name, and pray and make supplication to You in this temple,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:34 - “then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back 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 heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:36 - “then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37 - “When there is famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:38 - “whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows the plague of his own heart, and spreads out his hands toward this temple:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:39 - “then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men),

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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 a foreigner, who is not of Your people Israel, but has come from a far country for Your name’s sake

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:42 - “(for they will hear of Your great name and Your strong hand and Your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this temple,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:43 - “hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, that all peoples of the earth may know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that this temple which I have built is called by Your name.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:44 - “When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the LORD toward the city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name,

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:46 - “When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin), and You become angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, and they take them captive to the land of the enemy, far or near;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:47 - “yet when they come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to You in the land of those who took them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong, we have committed wickedness’;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:48 - “and when they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and pray to You toward their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name:

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:50 - “and forgive Your people who have sinned against You, and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You; and grant them compassion before those who took 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, whom You brought out of Egypt, out of the iron furnace),

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:52 - “that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your servant and the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they call to You.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:53 - “For You separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be Your inheritance, as You spoke by Your servant Moses, when You brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.”
Solomon Blesses the Assembly
(2 Chr. 6:40–42 )

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:55

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:55 - Then he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel 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 Israel, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised through His servant Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:57

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:57 - “May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He 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 Himself, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, which He commanded our fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:59

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:59 - “And may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be near the LORD our God day and night, that He may maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel, as each day may require,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:60

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:60 - “that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no other.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:61

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:61 - “Let your heart therefore be loyal to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as at this day.”
Solomon Dedicates the Temple
(2 Chr. 7:4–11 )

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:62 - Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:63

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:64 - On the same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was in front of the house of the LORD; for there he offered burnt offerings, grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to receive the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:65 - At that time Solomon held a feast, 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—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 good that the LORD had done for His servant David, and for Israel His people.
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NKJV Footnotes
Literally house, and so in verses 18–20
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