6:1 Then
Solomon
said,
"The
LORD
has
said
that
he
would
dwell
in
thick
darkness.
6:2 But
I
have
built
you
an
exalted
house,
a
place
for
you
to
dwell
in
forever."
6:3 Then
the
king
turned
around
and
blessed
all
the
assembly
of
Israel,
while
all
the
assembly
of
Israel
stood.
6:4 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,
6:5 'Since
the
day
that
I
brought
my
people
out
of
the
land
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,
and
I
chose
no
man
as
prince
over
my
people
Israel;
6:6 but
I
have
chosen
Jerusalem
that
my
name
may
be
there,
and
I
have
chosen
David
to
be
over
my
people
Israel.'
6:7 Now
it
was
in
the
heart
of
David
my
father
to
build
a
house
for
the
name
of
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel.
6:8 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.
6:9 Nevertheless,
it
is
not
you
who
shall
build
the
house,
but
your
son
who
shall
be
born
to
you
shall
build
the
house
for
my
name.'
6:10 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.
6:11 And
there
I
have
set
the
ark,
in
which
is
the
covenant
of
the
LORD
that
he
made
with
the
people
of
Israel."
6:12 Then
Solomon
stood
before
the
altar
of
the
LORD
in
the
presence
of
all
the
assembly
of
Israel
and
spread
out
his
hands.
6:13 Solomon
had
made
a
bronze
platform
five
cubits
long,
five
cubits
wide,
and
three
cubits
high,
and
had
set
it
in
the
court,
and
he
stood
on
it.
Then
he
knelt
on
his
knees
in
the
presence
of
all
the
assembly
of
Israel,
and
spread
out
his
hands
toward
heaven,
6:14 and
said,
"O
LORD,
God
of
Israel,
there
is
no
God
like
you,
in
heaven
or
on
earth,
keeping
covenant
and
showing
steadfast
love
to
your
servants
who
walk
before
you
with
all
their
heart,
6:15 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.
6:16 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
in
my
law
as
you
have
walked
before
me.'
6:17 Now
therefore,
O
LORD,
God
of
Israel,
let
your
word
be
confirmed,
which
you
have
spoken
to
your
servant
David.
6:18 "But
will
God
indeed
dwell
with
man
on
the
earth
Behold,
heaven
and
the
highest
heaven
cannot
contain
you,
how
much
less
this
house
that
I
have
built!
6:19 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,
6:20 that
your
eyes
may
be
open
day
and
night
toward
this
house,
the
place
where
you
have
promised
to
set
your
name,
that
you
may
listen
to
the
prayer
that
your
servant
offers
toward
this
place.
6:21 And
listen
to
the
pleas
of
your
servant
and
of
your
people
Israel,
when
they
pray
toward
this
place.
And
listen
from
heaven
your
dwelling
place,
and
when
you
hear,
forgive.
6:22 "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,
6:23 then
hear
from
heaven
and
act
and
judge
your
servants,
repaying
the
guilty
by
bringing
his
conduct
on
his
own
head,
and
vindicating
the
righteous
by
rewarding
him
according
to
his
righteousness.
6:24 "If
your
people
Israel
are
defeated
before
the
enemy
because
they
have
sinned
against
you,
and
they
turn
again
and
acknowledge
your
name
and
pray
and
plead
with
you
in
this
house,
6:25 then
hear
from
heaven
and
forgive
the
sin
of
your
people
Israel
and
bring
them
again
to
the
land
that
you
gave
to
them
and
to
their
fathers.
6:26 "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,
6:27 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.
6:28 "If
there
is
famine
in
the
land,
if
there
is
pestilence
or
blight
or
mildew
or
locust
or
caterpillar,
if
their
enemies
besiege
them
in
the
land
at
their
gates,
whatever
plague,
whatever
sickness
there
is,
6:29 whatever
prayer,
whatever
plea
is
made
by
any
man
or
by
all
your
people
Israel,
each
knowing
his
own
affliction
and
his
own
sorrow
and
stretching
out
his
hands
toward
this
house,
6:30 then
hear
from
heaven
your
dwelling
place
and
forgive
and
render
to
each
whose
heart
you
know,
according
to
all
his
ways,
for
you,
you
only,
know
the
hearts
of
the
children
of
mankind,
6:31 that
they
may
fear
you
and
walk
in
your
ways
all
the
days
that
they
live
in
the
land
that
you
gave
to
our
fathers.
6:32 "Likewise,
when
a
foreigner,
who
is
not
of
your
people
Israel,
comes
from
a
far
country
for
the
sake
of
your
great
name
and
your
mighty
hand
and
your
outstretched
arm,
when
he
comes
and
prays
toward
this
house,
6:33 hear
from
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.
6:34 "If
your
people
go
out
to
battle
against
their
enemies,
by
whatever
way
you
shall
send
them,
and
they
pray
to
you
toward
this
city
that
you
have
chosen
and
the
house
that
I
have
built
for
your
name,
6:35 then
hear
from
heaven
their
prayer
and
their
plea,
and
maintain
their
cause.
6:36 "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
a
land
far
or
near,
6:37 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
captivity,
saying,
'We
have
sinned
and
have
acted
perversely
and
wickedly,'
6:38 if
they
repent
with
all
their
mind
and
with
all
their
heart
in
the
land
of
their
captivity
to
which
they
were
carried
captive,
and
pray
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,
6:39 then
hear
from
heaven
your
dwelling
place
their
prayer
and
their
pleas,
and
maintain
their
cause
and
forgive
your
people
who
have
sinned
against
you.
6:40 Now,
O
my
God,
let
your
eyes
be
open
and
your
ears
attentive
to
the
prayer
of
this
place.
6:41 "And
now
arise,
O
LORD
God,
and
go
to
your
resting
place,
you
and
the
ark
of
your
might.
Let
your
priests,
O
LORD
God,
be
clothed
with
salvation,
and
let
your
saints
rejoice
in
your
goodness.
6:42 O
LORD
God,
do
not
turn
away
the
face
of
your
anointed
one!
Remember
your
steadfast
love
for
David
your
servant."