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Now the pots, the shovels, and the basins, all these vessels in the house of the Lord , which Hiram made for King Solomon, were of burnished bronze.

So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the Lord : the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the Presence,

the cups, snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and fire pans, of pure gold; and the sockets of gold, for the doors of the innermost part of the house, the Most Holy Place, and for the doors of the nave of the temple.

For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles.

so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord .

I have indeed built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever."

Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord , the God of Israel.

But the Lord said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.

Nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.'

Now the Lord has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord , the God of Israel.

And there I have provided a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt."

Now therefore, O Lord , God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.'

then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),

"Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for your name's sake

(for they shall hear of your great name and your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house,

hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.

"If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the Lord toward the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,

"If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,

if they repent with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name,

(for they are your people, and your heritage, which you brought out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace).