(September, 27-2016 on Thuesday)
1 Kings 8: 66 On the following day(8) He sent the people away. They
blessed the King and then went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good
things the Lord had done for His servant David and His people Israel. (3)1 & 3 & 8
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The Dedication of
the Temple
62 Then
the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the Lord. (8)
63 Solomon offered a
sacrifice of fellowship offerings to the Lord: twenty-two thousand cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand
sheep and goats. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the temple of the Lord.
64 On that same day
the king consecrated the middle part of the courtyard in front of the temple of
the Lord, and there he offered burnt offerings, grain offerings and the
fat of the fellowship offerings, because the bronze altar that stood before the
Lord was too small to
hold the burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the fat of the fellowship
offerings.
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53 For
You singled them out from all the nations of the world to be Your own
inheritance, just as You declared through Your servant Moses when You,
Sovereign Lord, brought our
ancestors out of Egypt.”
(8)
54 When Solomon had
finished all these prayers and supplications to the Lord, he rose from
before the altar of the Lord, where he had been
kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.
55 He stood and
blessed the whole assembly of Israel in a loud voice, saying:
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44 “When Your people go to war against their
enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the Lord Toward the City(Jerusalem) You have chosen and the temple I have built for Your Name, (8)
45 then hear from
heaven their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause.
46 “When they sin
against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them
and give them over to their enemies, who take them captive to their own lands,
far away or near;
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35 “When
the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because Your people have sinned
against You, and when they pray toward this place and give praise to Your Name
and turn from their sin because You have afflicted them,
(8)
36 then hear from
heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel. Teach them the
right way to live, and send rain on the land You gave Your people for an
inheritance.
37 “When famine or
plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when
an enemy besieges them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may
come,
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26 And
now, GOD of Israel, let Your word that You promised Your servant David my
father come true. (8)
27 “But will GOD
really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain You.
How much less this temple I have built!
28 Yet give attention
to Your servant’s prayer and his plea for mercy, Lord my GOD. Hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is
praying in Your presence this day.
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17 “My father David had it in his heart to build a temple for
the Name of the Lord,
the GOD of Israel.
(8)
18 But the Lord said to my father David, ‘You
did well to have it in your heart to build a temple for My Name.
19 Nevertheless, you
are not the one to build the temple, but your son, your own flesh and blood—he(Solomon) is the one who
will build the temple for My Name.’
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8 These
poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front
of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still
there today.
(8)
9 There was nothing
in the ark except the two stone tablets
that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a Covenant with the Israelites
after they came out of Egypt.
10 When the priests
withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud filled the temple of the Lord.
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59 And
may these words of mine, which I have prayed before the Lord, be near to the Lord
our GOD day and night, that He may uphold the cause of His servant and the
cause of His people Israel according to each day’s need, (5)
60 so that all the
peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is GOD and that there is no other.
61 And may your hearts
be fully committed to the Lord our GOD, to live by His Decrees and obey His Commands, as at this time.”
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50 And
forgive Your people, who have sinned against You; forgive all the offenses they
have committed against You, and cause their captors to show them mercy; (5)
51 for they are Your
people and Your Inheritance, whom You brought out of Egypt, out of that
iron-smelting furnace.
52 “May Your eyes be
open to Your servant’s plea and to the plea of Your people Israel, and may You
listen to them whenever they cry out to You.
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41 “As
for the foreigner who does not belong to Your people Israel but has come from a
distant land because of Your Name— (5)
42 for they will hear of Your Great Name and Your Mighty Hand and
Your Outstretched arm—when they come and pray toward this temple,
43 then hear from
heaven, Your dwelling place. Do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all
the peoples of the earth may know Your Name and fear You, as do Your own people
Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears Your Name.
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32 then
hear from heaven and act. Judge between Your servants, condemning the guilty by
bringing down on their heads what they have done, and vindicating the innocent
by treating them in accordance with their innocence. (5)
33 “When Your people
Israel have been defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against You, and
when they turn back to You and give praise to Your Name, praying and making
supplication to You in this temple,
34 then hear from
heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them back to the
land you gave to their ancestors.
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23 and
said: “Lord, the GOD of
Israel, there is no GOD like You in heaven above or on earth below—You who keep
Your Covenant of Love with Your servants who continue wholeheartedly in Your
way.
(5)
24 You have kept Your
promise to Your servant David my father; with Your Mouth You have promised and
with Your hand You have fulfilled it—as it is today.
25 “Now Lord, the GOD of Israel, keep for Your servant David my father the
promises You made to him when you said, ‘You shall never fail to have a
successor to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only Your descendants
are careful in all they do to walk before Me faithfully as you have done.’
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14 While
the whole assembly of Israel was standing there, the king turned around and
blessed them.
(5)
15 Then he said:
“Praise be to the Lord, the GOD of Israel, who with
His own hand has fulfilled what He promised with His Own Mouth to my father
David. For He said,
16 ‘Since the day I
brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a City in any tribe of
Israel to have a Temple built so that My Name might be there, but I have chosen
David to rule My people Israel.’
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5 and
King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were
before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be
recorded or counted. (5)
6 The priests then
brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its
place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it
beneath the wings of the cherubim.
7 The cherubim spread
their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its carrying
poles.
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65 So
Solomon observed the festival at that time, and all Israel with him—a vast
assembly, people from Lebo Hamath to the Wadi of Egypt. They celebrated it
before the Lord our GOD for seven
days and seven days more, fourteen days in all. (2); 2 & 5 & 8; JESUS & 10 LAWS & ETERNAL LIFE; the second symbol
of GOD; 6 + 5 = 11 = 1 + 1 = 2.
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56 “Praise be to the Lord,
who has given rest to His people Israel just as He promised. Not One Word has
failed of all the good promises He gave through His servant Moses. (2)
57 May the Lord our GOD be with us as He was with our ancestors; may He never
leave us nor forsake us.
58 May He turn our
hearts to Him, to walk in obedience to Him and keep the Commands, decrees and laws He gave our
ancestors.
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47 and
if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and
repent and plead with You in the land of their captors and say, ‘We have
sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly’; (2)
48 and if they turn
back to You with all their heart and soul in the land of their enemies who took
them captive, and pray to You Toward
the land(Jerusalem) You gave their ancestors, Toward the city You have chosen and
the temple I have built for Your Name;
49 then from heaven, Your
dwelling place, hear their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause.
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38 and
when a prayer or plea is made by anyone among Your people Israel—being aware of
the afflictions of their own hearts, and spreading out their hands toward this
temple—
(2)
39 then hear from
heaven, Your dwelling place. Forgive and act; deal with everyone according to
all they do, since You know their hearts (for You alone know every human
heart),
40 so that they will
fear You all the time they live in the land You gave our ancestors.
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29 May
Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, this place of which You
said, ‘My Name shall
be there,’ so that You will hear the
prayer Your servant prays Toward this place. (2)
30 Hear the
supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray Toward this place(Jerusalem). Hear from
heaven, Your dwelling place, and when You hear, Forgive.
31 “When anyone wrongs
their neighbor and is required to take an oath and they come and swear the oath
before Your altar in this temple,
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20 “The
Lord has kept the
promise He made: I have succeeded David my father and now I sit on the throne
of Israel, just as the Lord
promised, and I have built the temple for the Name of the Lord, the GOD of Israel.
(2)
21 I have provided a
place there for the ark, in which is the Covenant of the Lord that He made with our ancestors when He brought them out of
Egypt.”
Solomon’s Prayer of
Dedication
22 Then Solomon stood
before the altar of the Lord in front of the
whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven
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11 And
the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory
of the Lord filled His temple. (2)
12 Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that He would dwell in a dark cloud;
13 I have indeed built a magnificent temple for you, a
place for you to dwell forever.”
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The Ark Brought to
the Temple
1 Then King Solomon
summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of
the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the
Lord’s Covenant from Zion, the City of David.
2 All
the Israelites came together to King Solomon at the time of the festival in the
month of Ethanim, the
seventh month. (2)
3 When all the elders
of Israel had arrived, the priests took up the ark,
4 and they brought up the ark of the Lord and the tent of meeting and all the sacred
furnishings in it. The priests and Levites carried them up,
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