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1 Kings 8
Book of Kings
1 Kings 8:1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of
the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king
Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the
Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast
in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
4 And they brought up the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the
congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those
did the priests and the Levites bring up.
5 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto
him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be
told nor numbered for multitude.
6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place,
into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of
the cherubims.
7 For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and
the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
8 And 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.
9 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put
there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when
they came out of the land of Egypt.
10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that
the cloud filled the house of the Lord,
11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the
glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.
12 Then spake Solomon, The Lord said that he would dwell in thick darkness.
13 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to
abide in for ever.
14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of
Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;)
15 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which spake with his mouth
unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no
city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be
therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of
the Lord God of Israel.
18 And the Lord said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to
build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.
19 Nevertheless 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.
20 And the Lord hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the
room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised,
and have built an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.
21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the
Lord, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of
Egypt.
22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the
congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
23 And he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God 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:
24 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou
spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is
this day.
25 Therefore now, Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that
thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit
on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they
walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
26 And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou
spakest unto thy servant David my father.
27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of
heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his
supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which
thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
29 That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the
place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken
unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.
30 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people
Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy
dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.
31 If 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:
32 Then 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.
33 When thy people Israel 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:
34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring
them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.
35 When 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:
36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy
people Israel, 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.
37 If 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;
38 What prayer and supplication so ever be made by any man, or by all thy people
Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth
his hands toward this house:
39 Then 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;)
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If
your trying to do things right and ask for
forgiveness
40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou
gavest unto our fathers.
41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh
out of a far country for thy name's sake;
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Concerning a stranger = Foreigner, or alien =
Gentile = these that believe in the Lord
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Numbers 15:14 And if a stranger sojourn with
you, or whosoever be among you in your
generations, and will offer an offering made by
fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord; as ye do,
so he shall do.
42 (For 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;
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God hears those that Love Him, His arms are out
to those that try to do what's right
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Deut 10:19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for
ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
20 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt
thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and
swear by his name.
43 Hear 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 Israel; and that they may know that this house,
which I have builded, is called by thy name.
44 If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt
send them, and shall pray unto the Lord toward the city which thou hast chosen,
and toward the house that I have built for thy name:
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If your going to war, make sure God is with you.
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Just like today, study God's word and keep His
Commandments
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John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
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2 Timothy 2:15
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a
workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the
word of truth.
45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain
their cause.
46 If 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;
47 Yet 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, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have
committed wickedness;
48 And 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 I have built for thy name:
49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling
place, and maintain their cause,
50 And 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:
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Forgive the people that do you wrong, because
God will take care of your enemies (Deut 32)
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Leviticus 26:40 If they shall confess their
iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers,
with their trespass which they trespassed
against me, and that also they have walked
contrary unto me;
41 And that I also have walked contrary unto
them, and have brought them into the land of
their enemies; if then their uncircumcised
hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the
punishment of their iniquity:
42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob,
and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my
covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I
will remember the land.
51 For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth
out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
52 That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto
the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they
call for unto thee.
53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be
thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou
broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.
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Separate them from among all the people of the
earth
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The earth belong to God, not man
54 And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer
and supplication unto the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from
kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice,
saying,
56 Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according
to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise,
which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
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God keeps His Promises
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It's man that doesn't keep their promises to God
57 The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave
us, nor forsake us:
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Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without
covetousness; and be content with such things as
ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave
thee, nor forsake thee.
58 That 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.
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You don't want to take anything that's not
yours.
59 And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the Lord,
be nigh unto the Lord our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his
servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall
require:
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I want to walk everyday without the Lord
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You need to remember, God's with those that
study and try to keep His Commandments.
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If your not trying to do what's right, God has
told us He would bring curses to those that
don't keep His Ways.
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Mark 12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living:
ye therefore do greatly err.
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Lev 26:3 If ye walk in my statutes, and
keep my commandments, and do them;
4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and
the land shall yield her increase, and the trees
of the field shall yield their fruit.
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Lev 26:14 But if ye will not hearken unto me,
and will not do all these commandments;
15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if
your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will
not do all my commandments, but that ye break my
covenant:
16 I also will do this unto you;
I will even appoint over you terror,
consumption, and the burning ague, that shall
consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and
ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies
shall eat it.
17 And I will set my face against you, and ye
shall be slain before your enemies: they
that hate you shall reign over you; and
ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
60 That all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God, and that
there is none else.
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Deut 4:39 Know therefore this day, and consider
it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in
heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there
is none else
61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his
statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.
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God accepted them by fire from heaven, as
recorded.
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2 Chronicles 7:1 Now when Solomon had made an end
of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and
consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices;
and the glory of the Lord filled the house.
63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the
Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So
the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.
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2 Chronicles 7:1 Now when Solomon had made an
end of praying, the fire came down from heaven,
and consumed the burnt offering and the
sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the
house.
64 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the
house of the Lord: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and
the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the
Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the
fat of the peace offerings.
65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great
congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the
Lord our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
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Feast = The Feast of Tabernacles
66 On 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
Lord had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.
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1 Kings 10:9 Blessed be the Lord thy God, which
delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of
Israel: because the Lord loved Israel for ever,
therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and
justice.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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