8:1 Then
Solomon
assembled
the
elders
of
Israel
and
all
the
heads
of
the
tribes,
the
leaders
of
the
fathers'
houses
of
the
people
of
Israel,
before
King
Solomon
in
Jerusalem,
to
bring
up
the
ark
of
the
covenant
of
the
LORD
out
of
the
city
of
David,
which
is
Zion.
8:2 And
all
the
men
of
Israel
assembled
to
King
Solomon
at
the
feast
in
the
month
Ethanim,
which
is
the
seventh
month.
8:3 And
all
the
elders
of
Israel
came,
and
the
priests
took
up
the
ark.
8:4 And
they
brought
up
the
ark
of
the
LORD,
the
tent
of
meeting,
and
all
the
holy
vessels
that
were
in
the
tent;
the
priests
and
the
Levites
brought
them
up.
8:5 And
King
Solomon
and
all
the
congregation
of
Israel,
who
had
assembled
before
him,
were
with
him
before
the
ark,
sacrificing
so
many
sheep
and
oxen
that
they
could
not
be
counted
or
numbered.
8:6 Then
the
priests
brought
the
ark
of
the
covenant
of
the
LORD
to
its
place
in
the
inner
sanctuary
of
the
house,
in
the
Most
Holy
Place,
underneath
the
wings
of
the
cherubim.
8:7 For
the
cherubim
spread
out
their
wings
over
the
place
of
the
ark,
so
that
the
cherubim
overshadowed
the
ark
and
its
poles.
8:8 And
the
poles
were
so
long
that
the
ends
of
the
poles
were
seen
from
the
Holy
Place
before
the
inner
sanctuary;
but
they
could
not
be
seen
from
outside.
And
they
are
there
to
this
day.
8:9 There
was
nothing
in
the
ark
except
the
two
tablets
of
stone
that
Moses
put
there
at
Horeb,
where
the
LORD
made
a
covenant
with
the
people
of
Israel,
when
they
came
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt.
8:10 And
when
the
priests
came
out
of
the
Holy
Place,
a
cloud
filled
the
house
of
the
LORD,
8:11 so
that
the
priests
could
not
stand
to
minister
because
of
the
cloud,
for
the
glory
of
the
LORD
filled
the
house
of
the
LORD.
8:12 Then
Solomon
said,
"The
LORD
has
said
that
he
would
dwell
in
thick
darkness.
8:13 I
have
indeed
built
you
an
exalted
house,
a
place
for
you
to
dwell
in
forever."
8:14 Then
the
king
turned
around
and
blessed
all
the
assembly
of
Israel,
while
all
the
assembly
of
Israel
stood.
8:15 And
he
said,
"Blessed
be
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel,
who
with
his
hand
has
fulfilled
what
he
promised
with
his
mouth
to
David
my
father,
saying,
8:16 'Since
the
day
that
I
brought
my
people
Israel
out
of
Egypt,
I
chose
no
city
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel
in
which
to
build
a
house,
that
my
name
might
be
there.
But
I
chose
David
to
be
over
my
people
Israel.'
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
Israel.
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.
8:19 Nevertheless,
you
shall
not
build
the
house,
but
your
son
who
shall
be
born
to
you
shall
build
the
house
for
my
name.'
8:20 Now
the
LORD
has
fulfilled
his
promise
that
he
made.
For
I
have
risen
in
the
place
of
David
my
father,
and
sit
on
the
throne
of
Israel,
as
the
LORD
promised,
and
I
have
built
the
house
for
the
name
of
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel.
8:21 And
there
I
have
provided
a
place
for
the
ark,
in
which
is
the
covenant
of
the
LORD
that
he
made
with
our
fathers,
when
he
brought
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt."
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,
8:23 and
said,
"O
LORD,
God
of
Israel,
there
is
no
God
like
you,
in
heaven
above
or
on
earth
beneath,
keeping
covenant
and
showing
steadfast
love
to
your
servants
who
walk
before
you
with
all
their
heart,
8:24 who
have
kept
with
your
servant
David
my
father
what
you
declared
to
him.
You
spoke
with
your
mouth,
and
with
your
hand
have
fulfilled
it
this
day.
8:25 Now
therefore,
O
LORD,
God
of
Israel,
keep
for
your
servant
David
my
father
what
you
have
promised
him,
saying,
'You
shall
not
lack
a
man
to
sit
before
me
on
the
throne
of
Israel,
if
only
your
sons
pay
close
attention
to
their
way,
to
walk
before
me
as
you
have
walked
before
me.'
8:26 Now
therefore,
O
God
of
Israel,
let
your
word
be
confirmed,
which
you
have
spoken
to
your
servant
David
my
father.
8:27 "But
will
God
indeed
dwell
on
the
earth
Behold,
heaven
and
the
highest
heaven
cannot
contain
you;
how
much
less
this
house
that
I
have
built!
8:28 Yet
have
regard
to
the
prayer
of
your
servant
and
to
his
plea,
O
LORD
my
God,
listening
to
the
cry
and
to
the
prayer
that
your
servant
prays
before
you
this
day,
8:29 that
your
eyes
may
be
open
night
and
day
toward
this
house,
the
place
of
which
you
have
said,
'My
name
shall
be
there,'
that
you
may
listen
to
the
prayer
that
your
servant
offers
toward
this
place.
8:30 And
listen
to
the
plea
of
your
servant
and
of
your
people
Israel,
when
they
pray
toward
this
place.
And
listen
in
heaven
your
dwelling
place,
and
when
you
hear,
forgive.
8:31 "If
a
man
sins
against
his
neighbor
and
is
made
to
take
an
oath
and
comes
and
swears
his
oath
before
your
altar
in
this
house,
8:32 then
hear
in
heaven
and
act
and
judge
your
servants,
condemning
the
guilty
by
bringing
his
conduct
on
his
own
head,
and
vindicating
the
righteous
by
rewarding
him
according
to
his
righteousness.
8:33 "When
your
people
Israel
are
defeated
before
the
enemy
because
they
have
sinned
against
you,
and
if
they
turn
again
to
you
and
acknowledge
your
name
and
pray
and
plead
with
you
in
this
house,
8:34 then
hear
in
heaven
and
forgive
the
sin
of
your
people
Israel
and
bring
them
again
to
the
land
that
you
gave
to
their
fathers.
8:35 "When
heaven
is
shut
up
and
there
is
no
rain
because
they
have
sinned
against
you,
if
they
pray
toward
this
place
and
acknowledge
your
name
and
turn
from
their
sin,
when
you
afflict
them,
8:36 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
grant
rain
upon
your
land,
which
you
have
given
to
your
people
as
an
inheritance.
8:37 "If
there
is
famine
in
the
land,
if
there
is
pestilence
or
blight
or
mildew
or
locust
or
caterpillar,
if
their
enemy
besieges
them
in
the
land
at
their
gates,
whatever
plague,
whatever
sickness
there
is,
8:38 whatever
prayer,
whatever
plea
is
made
by
any
man
or
by
all
your
people
Israel,
each
knowing
the
affliction
of
his
own
heart
and
stretching
out
his
hands
toward
this
house,
8:39 then
hear
in
heaven
your
dwelling
place
and
forgive
and
act
and
render
to
each
whose
heart
you
know,
according
to
all
his
ways
(for
you,
you
only,
know
the
hearts
of
all
the
children
of
mankind),
8:40 that
they
may
fear
you
all
the
days
that
they
live
in
the
land
that
you
gave
to
our
fathers.
8:41 "Likewise,
when
a
foreigner,
who
is
not
of
your
people
Israel,
comes
from
a
far
country
for
your
name's
sake
8:42 (for
they
shall
hear
of
your
great
name
and
your
mighty
hand,
and
of
your
outstretched
arm),
when
he
comes
and
prays
toward
this
house,
8:43 hear
in
heaven
your
dwelling
place
and
do
according
to
all
for
which
the
foreigner
calls
to
you,
in
order
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
that
I
have
built
is
called
by
your
name.
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
that
you
have
chosen
and
the
house
that
I
have
built
for
your
name,
8:45 then
hear
in
heaven
their
prayer
and
their
plea,
and
maintain
their
cause.
8:46 "If
they
sin
against
you--for
there
is
no
one
who
does
not
sin--and
you
are
angry
with
them
and
give
them
to
an
enemy,
so
that
they
are
carried
away
captive
to
the
land
of
the
enemy,
far
off
or
near,
8:47 yet
if
they
turn
their
heart
in
the
land
to
which
they
have
been
carried
captive,
and
repent
and
plead
with
you
in
the
land
of
their
captors,
saying,
'We
have
sinned
and
have
acted
perversely
and
wickedly,'
8:48 if
they
repent
with
all
their
mind
and
with
all
their
heart
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
that
you
have
chosen,
and
the
house
that
I
have
built
for
your
name,
8:49 then
hear
in
heaven
your
dwelling
place
their
prayer
and
their
plea,
and
maintain
their
cause
8:50 and
forgive
your
people
who
have
sinned
against
you,
and
all
their
transgressions
that
they
have
committed
against
you,
and
grant
them
compassion
in
the
sight
of
those
who
carried
them
captive,
that
they
may
have
compassion
on
them
8:51 (for
they
are
your
people,
and
your
heritage,
which
you
brought
out
of
Egypt,
from
the
midst
of
the
iron
furnace).
8:52 Let
your
eyes
be
open
to
the
plea
of
your
servant
and
to
the
plea
of
your
people
Israel,
giving
ear
to
them
whenever
they
call
to
you.
8:53 For
you
separated
them
from
among
all
the
peoples
of
the
earth
to
be
your
heritage,
as
you
declared
through
Moses
your
servant,
when
you
brought
our
fathers
out
of
Egypt,
O
Lord
GOD."
8:54 Now
as
Solomon
finished
offering
all
this
prayer
and
plea
to
the
LORD,
he
arose
from
before
the
altar
of
the
LORD,
where
he
had
knelt
with
hands
outstretched
toward
heaven.
8:55 And
he
stood
and
blessed
all
the
assembly
of
Israel
with
a
loud
voice,
saying,
8:56 "Blessed
be
the
LORD
who
has
given
rest
to
his
people
Israel,
according
to
all
that
he
promised.
Not
one
word
has
failed
of
all
his
good
promise,
which
he
spoke
by
Moses
his
servant.
8:57 The
LORD
our
God
be
with
us,
as
he
was
with
our
fathers.
May
he
not
leave
us
or
forsake
us,
8:58 that
he
may
incline
our
hearts
to
him,
to
walk
in
all
his
ways
and
to
keep
his
commandments,
his
statutes,
and
his
rules,
which
he
commanded
our
fathers.
8:59 Let
these
words
of
mine,
with
which
I
have
pleaded
before
the
LORD,
be
near
to
the
LORD
our
God
day
and
night,
and
may
he
maintain
the
cause
of
his
servant
and
the
cause
of
his
people
Israel,
as
each
day
requires,
8:60 that
all
the
peoples
of
the
earth
may
know
that
the
LORD
is
God;
there
is
no
other.
8:61 Let
your
heart
therefore
be
wholly
true
to
the
LORD
our
God,
walking
in
his
statutes
and
keeping
his
commandments,
as
at
this
day."
8:62 Then
the
king,
and
all
Israel
with
him,
offered
sacrifice
before
the
LORD.
8:63 Solomon
offered
as
peace
offerings
to
the
LORD
22,000
oxen
and
120,000
sheep.
So
the
king
and
all
the
people
of
Israel
dedicated
the
house
of
the
LORD.
8:64 The
same
day
the
king
consecrated
the
middle
of
the
court
that
was
before
the
house
of
the
LORD,
for
there
he
offered
the
burnt
offering
and
the
grain
offering
and
the
fat
pieces
of
the
peace
offerings,
because
the
bronze
altar
that
was
before
the
LORD
was
too
small
to
receive
the
burnt
offering
and
the
grain
offering
and
the
fat
pieces
of
the
peace
offerings.
8:65 So
Solomon
held
the
feast
at
that
time,
and
all
Israel
with
him,
a
great
assembly,
from
Lebo-hamath
to
the
Brook
of
Egypt,
before
the
LORD
our
God,
seven
days.
8:66 On
the
eighth
day
he
sent
the
people
away,
and
they
blessed
the
king
and
went
to
their
homes
joyful
and
glad
of
heart
for
all
the
goodness
that
the
LORD
had
shown
to
David
his
servant
and
to
Israel
his
people.