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the day that I brought My people out of the makes toward this place. And may You hear
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land of Egypt, I have chosen no city from any the supplications of Your servant and of Your
tribe of Israel in which to build a house, that people Israel, when they pray toward this
My name might be there, nor did I choose any place. Hear from heaven Your dwelling place,
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man to be a ruler over My people Israel. Yet I and when You hear, forgive.
have chosen Jerusalem, that My name may be 22 “If anyone sins against his neighbor, and
there, and I have chosen David to be over My is forced to take an oath, and comes and takes
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people Israel.’ Now it was in the heart of my an oath before Your altar in this temple, then
father David to build a temple for the name of hear from heaven, and act, and judge Your
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the LORD God of Israel. But the LORD said to servants, bringing retribution on the wicked
my father David, ‘Whereas it was in your heart by bringing his way on his own head, and jus-
to build a temple for My name, you did well in tifying the righteous by giving him according
that it was in your heart. Nevertheless you to his righteousness.
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shall not build the temple, but your son who 24 “Or if Your people Israel are defeated
will come from your body, he shall build the before an enemy because they have sinned
temple for My name.’ So the LORD has ful- against You, and return and confess Your
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filled His word which He spoke, and I have name, and pray and make supplication before
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filled the position of my father David, and sit You in this temple, then hear from heaven
on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised; and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and
and I have built the temple for the name of the bring them back to the land which You gave to
LORD God of Israel. And there I have put the them and their fathers.
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ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD 26 “When the heavens are shut up and there
which He made with the children of Israel.” is no rain because they have sinned against
12 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the You, when they pray toward this place and
LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Is- confess Your name, and turn from their sin
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rael, and spread out his hands (for Solomon because You afflict them, then hear in heav-
had made a bronze platform five cubits long, en, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your
five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and people Israel, that You may teach them the
had set it in the midst of the court; and he good way in which they should walk; and send
stood on it, knelt down on his knees before all rain on Your land which You have given to
the assembly of Israel, and spread out his Your people as an inheritance.
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hands toward heaven); and he said: “LORD 28 “When there is famine in the land, pesti-
God of Israel, there is no God in heaven or on lence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshop-
earth like You, who keep Your covenant and pers; when their enemies besiege them in the
mercy with Your servants who walk before You land of their cities; whatever plague or what-
with all their hearts. You have kept what ever sickness there is; whatever prayer, what-
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Youpromised Your servant David my father; ever supplication is made by anyone, or by all
You have both spoken with Your mouth and ful- Your people Israel, when each one knows his
filled it with Your hand, as it is this day. There- own burden and his own grief, and spreads
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fore, LORD God of Israel, now keep what You out his hands to this temple: then hear from
promised Your servant David my father, say- heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and
ing, ‘You shall not fail to have a man sit before give to everyone according to all his ways,
Me on the throne of Israel, only if your sons whose heart You know (for You alone know
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take heed to their way, that they walk in My the hearts of the sons of men), that they may
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law as you have walked before Me.’ And now, fear You, to walk in Your ways as long as they
O LORD God of Israel, let Your word come true, live in the land which You gave to our fathers.
which You have spoken to Your servant David. 32 “Moreover, concerning a foreigner, who is
18 “But will God indeed dwell with men on not of Your people Israel, but has come from a
the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of far country for the sake of Your great name
heavens cannot contain You. How much less and Your mighty hand and Your outstretched
this temple which I have built! Yet regard the arm, when they come and pray in this temple;
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prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O 33 then hear from heaven Your dwelling place,
LORD my God, and listen to the cry and the and do according to all for which the foreigner
prayer which Your servant is praying before calls to You, that all peoples of the earth may
You: that Your eyes may be open toward this know Your name and fear You, as do Your people
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temple day and night, toward the place where Israel, and that they may know that this temple
You said You would put Your name, that You which I have built is called by Your name.
may hear the prayer which Your servant 34 “When Your people go out to battle against
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