1╦╔ 8:1 ╘HEN ╙OLOMON ASSEMBLED THE ELDERS OF ╔SRAEL, AND ALL THE HEADS OF THE TRIBES, THE CHIEF OF THE FATHERS OF THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL, UNTO KING ╙OLOMON IN ╩ERUSALEM, THAT THEY MIGHT BRING UP THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OF THE ╠╧╥─ OUT OF THE CITY OF ─AVID, WHICH IS ┌ION.
1╦╔ 8:2 ┴ND ALL THE MEN OF ╔SRAEL ASSEMBLED THEMSELVES UNTO KING ╙OLOMON AT THE FEAST IN THE MONTH ┼THANIM, WHICH IS THE SEVENTH MONTH.
1╦╔ 8:3 ┴ND ALL THE ELDERS OF ╔SRAEL CAME, AND THE PRIESTS TOOK UP THE ARK.
1╦╔ 8:4 ┴ND THEY BROUGHT UP THE ARK OF THE ╠╧╥─, AND THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION, AND ALL THE HOLY VESSELS THAT WERE IN THE TABERNACLE, EVEN THOSE DID THE PRIESTS AND THE ╠EVITES BRING UP.
1╦╔ 8:5 ┴ND KING ╙OLOMON, AND ALL THE CONGREGATION OF ╔SRAEL, THAT WERE ASSEMBLED UNTO HIM, WERE WITH HIM BEFORE THE ARK, SACRIFICING SHEEP AND OXEN, THAT COULD NOT BE TOLD NOR NUMBERED FOR MULTITUDE.
1╦╔ 8:6 ┴ND THE PRIESTS BROUGHT IN THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OF THE ╠╧╥─ UNTO HIS PLACE, INTO THE ORACLE OF THE HOUSE, TO THE MOST HOLY PLACE, EVEN UNDER THE WINGS OF THE CHERUBIMS.
1╦╔ 8:7 ╞OR THE CHERUBIMS SPREAD FORTH THEIR TWO WINGS OVER THE PLACE OF THE ARK, AND THE CHERUBIMS COVERED THE ARK AND THE STAVES THEREOF ABOVE.
1╦╔ 8:8 ┴ND THEY DREW OUT THE STAVES, THAT THE ENDS OF THE STAVES WERE SEEN OUT IN THE HOLY PLACE BEFORE THE ORACLE, AND THEY WERE NOT SEEN WITHOUT: AND THERE THEY ARE UNTO THIS DAY.
1╦╔ 8:9 ╘HERE WAS NOTHING IN THE ARK SAVE THE TWO TABLES OF STONE, WHICH ═OSES PUT THERE AT ╚OREB, WHEN THE ╠╧╥─ MADE A COVENANT WITH THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL, WHEN THEY CAME OUT OF THE LAND OF ┼GYPT.
1╦╔ 8:10 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE PRIESTS WERE COME OUT OF THE HOLY PLACE, THAT THE CLOUD FILLED THE HOUSE OF THE ╠╧╥─,
1╦╔ 8:11 ╙O THAT THE PRIESTS COULD NOT STAND TO MINISTER BECAUSE OF THE CLOUD: FOR THE GLORY OF THE ╠╧╥─ HAD FILLED THE HOUSE OF THE ╠╧╥─.
1╦╔ 8:12 ╘HEN SPAKE ╙OLOMON, ╘HE ╠╧╥─ SAID THAT HE WOULD DWELL IN THE THICK DARKNESS.
1╦╔ 8:13 ╔ HAVE SURELY BUILT THEE AN HOUSE TO DWELL IN, A SETTLED PLACE FOR THEE TO ABIDE IN FOR EVER.
1╦╔ 8:14 ┴ND THE KING TURNED HIS FACE ABOUT, AND BLESSED ALL THE CONGREGATION OF ╔SRAEL: (AND ALL THE CONGREGATION OF ╔SRAEL STOOD;)
1╦╔ 8:15 ┴ND HE SAID, ┬LESSED BE THE ╠╧╥─ ╟OD OF ╔SRAEL, WHICH SPAKE WITH HIS MOUTH UNTO ─AVID MY FATHER, AND HATH WITH HIS HAND FULFILLED IT, SAYING,
1╦╔ 8:16 ╙INCE THE DAY THAT ╔ BROUGHT FORTH MY PEOPLE ╔SRAEL OUT OF ┼GYPT, ╔ CHOSE NO CITY OUT OF ALL THE TRIBES OF ╔SRAEL TO BUILD AN HOUSE, THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE THEREIN; BUT ╔ CHOSE ─AVID TO BE OVER MY PEOPLE ╔SRAEL.
1╦╔ 8:17 ┴ND IT WAS IN THE HEART OF ─AVID MY FATHER TO BUILD AN HOUSE FOR THE NAME OF THE ╠╧╥─ ╟OD OF ╔SRAEL.
1╦╔ 8:18 ┴ND THE ╠╧╥─ SAID UNTO ─AVID MY FATHER, ╫HEREAS IT WAS IN THINE HEART TO BUILD AN HOUSE UNTO MY NAME, THOU DIDST WELL THAT IT WAS IN THINE HEART.
1╦╔ 8:19 ╬EVERTHELESS THOU SHALT NOT BUILD THE HOUSE; BUT THY SON THAT SHALL COME FORTH OUT OF THY LOINS, HE SHALL BUILD THE HOUSE UNTO MY NAME.
1╦╔ 8:20 ┴ND THE ╠╧╥─ HATH PERFORMED HIS WORD THAT HE SPAKE, AND ╔ AM RISEN UP IN THE ROOM OF ─AVID MY FATHER, AND SIT ON THE THRONE OF ╔SRAEL, AS THE ╠╧╥─ PROMISED, AND HAVE BUILT AN HOUSE FOR THE NAME OF THE ╠╧╥─ ╟OD OF ╔SRAEL.
1╦╔ 8:21 ┴ND ╔ HAVE SET THERE A PLACE FOR THE ARK, WHEREIN IS THE COVENANT OF THE ╠╧╥─, WHICH HE MADE WITH OUR FATHERS, WHEN HE BROUGHT THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF ┼GYPT.
1╦╔ 8:22 ┴ND ╙OLOMON STOOD BEFORE THE ALTAR OF THE ╠╧╥─ IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL THE CONGREGATION OF ╔SRAEL, AND SPREAD FORTH HIS HANDS TOWARD HEAVEN:
1╦╔ 8:23 ┴ND HE SAID, ╠╧╥─ ╟OD OF ╔SRAEL, THERE IS NO ╟OD LIKE THEE, IN HEAVEN ABOVE, OR ON EARTH BENEATH, WHO KEEPEST COVENANT AND MERCY WITH THY SERVANTS THAT WALK BEFORE THEE WITH ALL THEIR HEART:
1╦╔ 8:24 ╫HO HAST KEPT WITH THY SERVANT ─AVID MY FATHER THAT THOU PROMISEDST HIM: THOU SPAKEST ALSO WITH THY MOUTH, AND HAST FULFILLED IT WITH THINE HAND, AS IT IS THIS DAY.
1╦╔ 8:25 ╘HEREFORE NOW, ╠╧╥─ ╟OD OF ╔SRAEL, KEEP WITH THY SERVANT ─AVID MY FATHER THAT THOU PROMISEDST HIM, SAYING, ╘HERE SHALL NOT FAIL THEE A MAN IN MY SIGHT TO SIT ON THE THRONE OF ╔SRAEL; SO THAT THY CHILDREN TAKE HEED TO THEIR WAY, THAT THEY WALK BEFORE ME AS THOU HAST WALKED BEFORE ME.
1╦╔ 8:26 ┴ND NOW, ╧ ╟OD OF ╔SRAEL, LET THY WORD, ╔ PRAY THEE, BE VERIFIED, WHICH THOU SPAKEST UNTO THY SERVANT ─AVID MY FATHER.
1╦╔ 8:27 ┬UT WILL ╟OD INDEED DWELL ON THE EARTH? BEHOLD, THE HEAVEN AND HEAVEN OF HEAVENS CANNOT CONTAIN THEE; HOW MUCH LESS THIS HOUSE THAT ╔ HAVE BUILDED?
1╦╔ 8:28 ┘ET HAVE THOU RESPECT UNTO THE PRAYER OF THY SERVANT, AND TO HIS SUPPLICATION, ╧ ╠╧╥─ MY ╟OD, TO HEARKEN UNTO THE CRY AND TO THE PRAYER, WHICH THY SERVANT PRAYETH BEFORE THEE TO DAY:
1╦╔ 8:29 ╘HAT THINE EYES MAY BE OPEN TOWARD THIS HOUSE NIGHT AND DAY, EVEN TOWARD THE PLACE OF WHICH THOU HAST SAID, ═Y NAME SHALL BE THERE: THAT THOU MAYEST HEARKEN UNTO THE PRAYER WHICH THY SERVANT SHALL MAKE TOWARD THIS PLACE.
1╦╔ 8:30 ┴ND HEARKEN THOU TO THE SUPPLICATION OF THY SERVANT, AND OF THY PEOPLE ╔SRAEL, WHEN THEY SHALL PRAY TOWARD THIS PLACE: AND HEAR THOU IN HEAVEN THY DWELLING PLACE: AND WHEN THOU HEAREST, FORGIVE.
1╦╔ 8:31 ╔F ANY MAN TRESPASS AGAINST HIS NEIGHBOUR, AND AN OATH BE LAID UPON HIM TO CAUSE HIM TO SWEAR, AND THE OATH COME BEFORE THINE ALTAR IN THIS HOUSE:
1╦╔ 8:32 ╘HEN HEAR THOU IN HEAVEN, AND DO, AND JUDGE THY SERVANTS, CONDEMNING THE WICKED, TO BRING HIS WAY UPON HIS HEAD; AND JUSTIFYING THE RIGHTEOUS, TO GIVE HIM ACCORDING TO HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
1╦╔ 8:33 ╫HEN THY PEOPLE ╔SRAEL BE SMITTEN DOWN BEFORE THE ENEMY, BECAUSE THEY HAVE SINNED AGAINST THEE, AND SHALL TURN AGAIN TO THEE, AND CONFESS THY NAME, AND PRAY, AND MAKE SUPPLICATION UNTO THEE IN THIS HOUSE:
1╦╔ 8:34 ╘HEN HEAR THOU IN HEAVEN, AND FORGIVE THE SIN OF THY PEOPLE ╔SRAEL, AND BRING THEM AGAIN UNTO THE LAND WHICH THOU GAVEST UNTO THEIR FATHERS.
1╦╔ 8:35 ╫HEN HEAVEN IS SHUT UP, AND THERE IS NO RAIN, BECAUSE THEY HAVE SINNED AGAINST THEE; IF THEY PRAY TOWARD THIS PLACE, AND CONFESS THY NAME, AND TURN FROM THEIR SIN, WHEN THOU AFFLICTEST THEM:
1╦╔ 8:36 ╘HEN HEAR THOU IN HEAVEN, AND FORGIVE THE SIN OF THY SERVANTS, AND OF THY PEOPLE ╔SRAEL, THAT THOU TEACH THEM THE GOOD WAY WHEREIN THEY SHOULD WALK, AND GIVE RAIN UPON THY LAND, WHICH THOU HAST GIVEN TO THY PEOPLE FOR AN INHERITANCE.
1╦╔ 8:37 ╔F THERE BE IN THE LAND FAMINE, IF THERE BE PESTILENCE, BLASTING, MILDEW, LOCUST, OR IF THERE BE CATERPILLER; IF THEIR ENEMY BESIEGE THEM IN THE LAND OF THEIR CITIES; WHATSOEVER PLAGUE, WHATSOEVER SICKNESS THERE BE;
1╦╔ 8:38 ╫HAT PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION SOEVER BE MADE BY ANY MAN, OR BY ALL THY PEOPLE ╔SRAEL, WHICH SHALL KNOW EVERY MAN THE PLAGUE OF HIS OWN HEART, AND SPREAD FORTH HIS HANDS TOWARD THIS HOUSE:
1╦╔ 8:39 ╘HEN HEAR THOU IN HEAVEN THY DWELLING PLACE, AND FORGIVE, AND DO, AND GIVE TO EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS WAYS, WHOSE HEART THOU KNOWEST; (FOR THOU, EVEN THOU ONLY, KNOWEST THE HEARTS OF ALL THE CHILDREN OF MEN;)
1╦╔ 8:40 ╘HAT THEY MAY FEAR THEE ALL THE DAYS THAT THEY LIVE IN THE LAND WHICH THOU GAVEST UNTO OUR FATHERS.
1╦╔ 8:41 ═OREOVER CONCERNING A STRANGER, THAT IS NOT OF THY PEOPLE ╔SRAEL, BUT COMETH OUT OF A FAR COUNTRY FOR THY NAME'S SAKE;
1╦╔ 8:42 (╞OR THEY SHALL HEAR OF THY GREAT NAME, AND OF THY STRONG HAND, AND OF THY STRETCHED OUT ARM;) WHEN HE SHALL COME AND PRAY TOWARD THIS HOUSE;
1╦╔ 8:43 ╚EAR THOU IN HEAVEN 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, TO FEAR THEE, AS DO THY PEOPLE ╔SRAEL; AND THAT THEY MAY KNOW THAT THIS HOUSE, WHICH ╔ HAVE BUILDED, IS CALLED BY THY NAME.
1╦╔ 8:44 ╔F THY PEOPLE GO OUT TO BATTLE AGAINST THEIR ENEMY, WHITHERSOEVER THOU SHALT SEND THEM, AND SHALL PRAY UNTO THE ╠╧╥─ TOWARD THE CITY WHICH THOU HAST CHOSEN, AND TOWARD THE HOUSE THAT ╔ HAVE BUILT FOR THY NAME:
1╦╔ 8:45 ╘HEN HEAR THOU IN HEAVEN THEIR PRAYER AND THEIR SUPPLICATION, AND MAINTAIN THEIR CAUSE.
1╦╔ 8:46 ╔F THEY SIN AGAINST THEE, (FOR THERE IS NO MAN THAT SINNETH NOT,) AND THOU BE ANGRY WITH THEM, AND DELIVER THEM TO THE ENEMY, SO THAT THEY CARRY THEM AWAY CAPTIVES UNTO THE LAND OF THE ENEMY, FAR OR NEAR;
1╦╔ 8:47 ┘ET IF THEY SHALL BETHINK THEMSELVES IN THE LAND WHITHER THEY WERE CARRIED CAPTIVES, AND REPENT, AND MAKE SUPPLICATION UNTO THEE IN THE LAND OF THEM THAT CARRIED THEM CAPTIVES, SAYING, ╫E HAVE SINNED, AND HAVE DONE PERVERSELY, WE HAVE COMMITTED WICKEDNESS;
1╦╔ 8:48 ┴ND SO RETURN UNTO THEE WITH ALL THEIR HEART, AND WITH ALL THEIR SOUL, IN THE LAND OF THEIR ENEMIES, WHICH LED THEM AWAY CAPTIVE, AND PRAY UNTO THEE TOWARD THEIR LAND, WHICH THOU GAVEST UNTO THEIR FATHERS, THE CITY WHICH THOU HAST CHOSEN, AND THE HOUSE WHICH ╔ HAVE BUILT FOR THY NAME:
1╦╔ 8:49 ╘HEN HEAR THOU THEIR PRAYER AND THEIR SUPPLICATION IN HEAVEN THY DWELLING PLACE, AND MAINTAIN THEIR CAUSE,
1╦╔ 8:50 ┴ND FORGIVE THY PEOPLE THAT HAVE SINNED AGAINST THEE, AND ALL THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS WHEREIN THEY HAVE TRANSGRESSED AGAINST THEE, AND GIVE THEM COMPASSION BEFORE THEM WHO CARRIED THEM CAPTIVE, THAT THEY MAY HAVE COMPASSION ON THEM:
1╦╔ 8:51 ╞OR THEY BE THY PEOPLE, AND THINE INHERITANCE, WHICH THOU BROUGHTEST FORTH OUT OF ┼GYPT, FROM THE MIDST OF THE FURNACE OF IRON:
1╦╔ 8:52 ╘HAT THINE EYES MAY BE OPEN UNTO THE SUPPLICATION OF THY SERVANT, AND UNTO THE SUPPLICATION OF THY PEOPLE ╔SRAEL, TO HEARKEN UNTO THEM IN ALL THAT THEY CALL FOR UNTO THEE.
1╦╔ 8:53 ╞OR THOU DIDST SEPARATE THEM FROM AMONG ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH, TO BE THINE INHERITANCE, AS THOU SPAKEST BY THE HAND OF ═OSES THY SERVANT, WHEN THOU BROUGHTEST OUR FATHERS OUT OF ┼GYPT, ╧ ╠╧╥─ ╟OD.
1╦╔ 8:54 ┴ND IT WAS SO, THAT WHEN ╙OLOMON HAD MADE AN END OF PRAYING ALL THIS PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION UNTO THE ╠╧╥─, HE AROSE FROM BEFORE THE ALTAR OF THE ╠╧╥─, FROM KNEELING ON HIS KNEES WITH HIS HANDS SPREAD UP TO HEAVEN.
1╦╔ 8:55 ┴ND HE STOOD, AND BLESSED ALL THE CONGREGATION OF ╔SRAEL WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING,
1╦╔ 8:56 ┬LESSED BE THE ╠╧╥─, THAT HATH GIVEN REST UNTO HIS PEOPLE ╔SRAEL, ACCORDING TO ALL THAT HE PROMISED: THERE HATH NOT FAILED ONE WORD OF ALL HIS GOOD PROMISE, WHICH HE PROMISED BY THE HAND OF ═OSES HIS SERVANT.
1╦╔ 8:57 ╘HE ╠╧╥─ OUR ╟OD BE WITH US, AS HE WAS WITH OUR FATHERS: LET HIM NOT LEAVE US, NOR FORSAKE US:
1╦╔ 8:58 ╘HAT HE MAY INCLINE OUR HEARTS UNTO HIM, TO WALK IN ALL HIS WAYS, AND TO KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, AND HIS STATUTES, AND HIS JUDGMENTS, WHICH HE COMMANDED OUR FATHERS.
1╦╔ 8:59 ┴ND LET THESE MY WORDS, WHEREWITH ╔ HAVE MADE SUPPLICATION BEFORE THE ╠╧╥─, BE NIGH UNTO THE ╠╧╥─ OUR ╟OD DAY AND NIGHT, THAT HE MAINTAIN THE CAUSE OF HIS SERVANT, AND THE CAUSE OF HIS PEOPLE ╔SRAEL AT ALL TIMES, AS THE MATTER SHALL REQUIRE:
1╦╔ 8:60 ╘HAT ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH MAY KNOW THAT THE ╠╧╥─ IS ╟OD, AND THAT THERE IS NONE ELSE.
1╦╔ 8:61 ╠ET YOUR HEART THEREFORE BE PERFECT WITH THE ╠╧╥─ OUR ╟OD, TO WALK IN HIS STATUTES, AND TO KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, AS AT THIS DAY.
1╦╔ 8:62 ┴ND THE KING, AND ALL ╔SRAEL WITH HIM, OFFERED SACRIFICE BEFORE THE ╠╧╥─.
1╦╔ 8:63 ┴ND ╙OLOMON OFFERED A SACRIFICE OF PEACE OFFERINGS, WHICH HE OFFERED UNTO THE ╠╧╥─, TWO AND TWENTY THOUSAND OXEN, AND AN HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND SHEEP. ╙O THE KING AND ALL THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL DEDICATED THE HOUSE OF THE ╠╧╥─.
1╦╔ 8:64 ╘HE SAME DAY DID THE KING HALLOW THE MIDDLE OF THE COURT THAT WAS BEFORE THE HOUSE OF THE ╠╧╥─: FOR THERE HE OFFERED BURNT OFFERINGS, AND MEAT OFFERINGS, AND THE FAT OF THE PEACE OFFERINGS: BECAUSE THE BRASEN ALTAR THAT WAS BEFORE THE ╠╧╥─ WAS TOO LITTLE TO RECEIVE THE BURNT OFFERINGS, AND MEAT OFFERINGS, AND THE FAT OF THE PEACE OFFERINGS.
1╦╔ 8:65 ┴ND AT THAT TIME ╙OLOMON HELD A FEAST, AND ALL ╔SRAEL WITH HIM, A GREAT CONGREGATION, FROM THE ENTERING IN OF ╚AMATH UNTO THE RIVER OF ┼GYPT, BEFORE THE ╠╧╥─ OUR ╟OD, SEVEN DAYS AND SEVEN DAYS, EVEN FOURTEEN DAYS.
1╦╔ 8:66 ╧N THE EIGHTH DAY HE SENT THE PEOPLE AWAY: AND THEY BLESSED THE KING, AND WENT UNTO THEIR TENTS JOYFUL AND GLAD OF HEART FOR ALL THE GOODNESS THAT THE ╠╧╥─ HAD DONE FOR ─AVID HIS SERVANT, AND FOR ╔SRAEL HIS PEOPLE.
