Induction of the ark.

20 Moreover the candlesticks with B. C. 1012. their lamps, that they should burni after the manner before the oracle, i Ex.27.20, of pure gold;

21.

&c.

21 And the flowers, k and the A Ex.25.31, lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that 10 perfect gold: 22 And the snuffers, and the 11 ba

sins, and the spoons, and the cen-
sers, of pure gold: and the entry
of the house, the inner doors there-
of for the most holy place, and the
doors of the house of the temple,
were of gold.
CHAPTER V.

God being praised, giveth a visible
sign of his favour.

THUS a all the work that Solo-'

10 perfections 11 or, bowls. of gold. (CHAP. 5.)

a 1 Ki.7.51.

b1Ch.22.14. e IKI.8.1,&c.

d Nu. 10.53, 36.

e 25a.6.12.

87.2.

LORD was finished: and Solomon ƒ Ps.2.6. brought in all the b things that David his father had dedicated; and 132. 13-17. the silver, and the gold, and all the g ch.7.8-10. instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.

2 Then c Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark d of the covenant of the LORD out of the city e of David, which is Zion. f

h Ps. 132.8. i Ex.37.7-9. He.9.4.5.

k Ex.37.3-5.

1 or, they

are there, as 1Ki.8.8.

I De.10.2-5.

3 Wherefore all the men of Israel 2 or, where. assembled themselves unto the king in the feast g which was in the seventh month.

3 found.

m ch.35.4. n 1Ch.25.1.

o 1Ch. 15.24. Ps.68.25.

4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark. 5 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the p Re.5.8-14. priests and the Levites bring up. 6 Also king Solomon, and all the 9 1Ch.16.34congregation of Israel that were as- Ps.CXXXVI. sembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which r ch.7.2. could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

7 And the priests brought in h the ark of the covenant of the LORD

41.

Ex.40.35.
Eze.10.4.
Re. 15.8.

(CHAP. 6.)

11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were 3 present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course: m

12 Also n the Levites which were of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their the singers, all of them of Asaph, sons and their brethren, being arraved in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding o with trumpets :)

13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one p sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying, For q he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD; 14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for r the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.

CHAPTER VI. Solomon's prayer at the consecration of the temple.

T

THEN a said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. b

2 But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.

3 And the king turned his face, and blessed c the whole congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood.)d

4 And he said, Blessed be the with his hands fulfilled that which LORD God of Israel, who e hath he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying,

5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city among all

Ps. 18.11. Na. 1.3.

He. 12.18.

house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims: ib Le. 16.2. 8 For the cherubins spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the k staves thereof above. 9 And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves

c Nu.6.23,27. d Ne.8.5.

were seen from the ark before the Lu.1.68-70. oracle; but they were not seen f De. 12.5,11. without. And there it is unto g ch.12.13. this day.

10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Mosesi put therein at Horeb, 2 when the LORD made a covenant with the

h 1Ch.28.4. 2Sa.7.2,&c. 1Ch.28.2,&c.

in, that f my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:

6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, g that my name might be there; and have chosen David h to be over my people Israel.

7 Now i it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

8 But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:

Solomon's prayer at the

consecration of the temple. said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth 3 toward this place.

p Ex. 15.11. De.4.39. 7.9.

11 And in it have I put m the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, that he made with the child-q Ne.1.5. ren of Israel.

12 T And n he stood before the altar of the LORD, in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:

Da.9.4. r 1Ch.22.9.

s ver.4. t251.7.12-16. IKI.2.4.

6.12.

13 (For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, of five cubits 1 long, and five cubits broad, and three 2 a man be cubits high, and had set it in the cut off. midst of the court: and upon it heu Ps. 132.12. stood, o and kneeled down upon his v Ex.29.45, knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,)

46.

Ps.68.18.

w ch.2.6.

Is.66.1.
Ac.7.49.

14 And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is p no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which q keepest covenant, and showest mer-x Ps. 121.4. cy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:

3 or, in.

15 Thon which hast kept with thy servant David my father that a which thou hast promised r him; y ch.30.27. and spakest with thy mouth, and s5 hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.

he require

an outh
of him.

z 2Ki.9.26.

Ps. 10. 14. Je.25.16,17.

51.56.

16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised t him, saying, There shall not 2 fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel: yet so u that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my a Ps. 106.40law, as thou hast walked before me.

6

or, smitten.

7 or, , toward.

47.

17 Now then, O LORD God of Is-b1Ki. 17, &18. rael, let thy word be verified, which Is.5.6. thou hast spoken unto thy servant c Je.5.24. David.

18 (But will God in very deed dwell with v men on the earth? Behold, w heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!)

19 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:

20 That thine eyes may be open r upon this house day and night, h Ps.62.12. upon the place whereof thou hast

21 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall 4 make toward this place hear thou from thy dwelling-place, y even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.

22 If a man sin against his neighbour, and 5 an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;

23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing z his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

21 And if thy people Israel be 6 put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee 7 in this house;

25 Then a hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.

26 When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, b because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;

27 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way wherein they should walk; and send rain c upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.

28 If there be dearth d in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, e or caterpillars; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore,f or whatsoever sickness there be :

29 Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his g own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands 9 in this house:

30 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling-place, and forgive, and h render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest

33 Then hear thou from the hea-12 thy name vens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all & people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that 12 this house which I haven Ps.9.3,4. built is called by thy name.

m

ch. 14.11,

12.

20.4,&c.

13 or, right. o Ec.7.20. Ja.3.2.

15

1Jno.1.8.

take them captives carry them away.

bring back

34 If thy people go out to war m against their enemies by the way thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which 14 they that thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name; 35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplition, and maintain n their 13 cause. 38 If they sin against thee, (for o there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and 14 they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near; 16 or, right. 37 Yet if they 15 bethink them-17 to the selves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their cap-s tivity, saying, We have sinned, wet have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;

38 If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city q which thou hast chosen,and toward the house which I have built for thy name:

39 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their 16 cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.

40 Now, my God, let, (I beseech thee,) thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent 17 unto the prayer that is made in this place. 41 Now therefore arise, s O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.u 42 O LORD God, turn not away the

to their heart. p Je.29.12-14. q Da.6.10.

7 Da.9.16-19.

prayer of this place. Ps. 132.8,&c. 1Ch.28.2. Is.66.1. u Ne.9.25. Ps.65.4,11. Zec.9.17.

Is.55.3. (CHAP. 7.) a 1Ki..54.&c

b Ex.29.43.

Le.9.24.
Ju.6.21.

1 Ki. 18 38.
1Ch.21.26.

Mal.3.1.3. ch.5.13, 14. Eze. 10,3,4. d ch.20.21. 1Ch. 16.41. Ps. 103.17.

136.1.

He.7.21.25. ICh.15.15. 1 hand.

Ps.87.7.

f ch.5.12. g Jos. 13.3.5. 2 restraint. h 1Ki.9.1,&c.

came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt-offering and the sacrifices; and the glory c of the LORD filled the house.

2 And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD's house.

3 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for d his mercy endureth for

ever.

4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.

5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God."

6 And the priests waited on their offices: thee Levites also with instruments of music of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their 1 ministry; and f the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.

7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt-offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt-offerings, and the meatofferings, and the fat.

8 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath g unto the river of Egypt.

9 And in the eighth day they made a solemn 2 assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents. glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had showed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.

11 Thus h Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's