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Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court and doors for the court; and he overlaid these doors with bronze.

Then Huram made the pots and the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing the work that he was to do for King Solomon for the house of God:

four hundred pomegranates for the two networks (two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals that were on the pillars);

also the pots, the shovels, the forks--and all their articles Huram his master [fn] craftsman made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the Lord.

Thus Solomon had all the furnishings made for the house of God: the altar of gold and the tables on which was the showbread;

the trimmers, the bowls, the ladles, and the censers of pure gold. As for the entry of the sanctuary, its inner doors to the Most Holy Place, and the doors of the main hall of the temple, were gold.

So all the work that Solomon had done for the house of the LORD was finished; and Solomon brought in the things which his father David had dedicated: the silver and the gold and all the furnishings. And he put them in the treasuries of the house of God.

Also King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel who were assembled with him before the ark, were sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.

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

And it came to pass when the priests came out of the Most Holy Place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, without keeping to their divisions),

indeed it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord, and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying: "For He is good,For His mercy endures forever," Psalms 106:1 ">[fn] that the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud,

so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.

I have surely built You an exalted house, And a place for You to dwell in forever."

Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a temple 2 Chronicles 6:8-10">[fn] for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

But the LORD said to my father David, "Whereas it was in your heart to build a temple for My name, you did well in that it was in your heart.

Nevertheless you shall not build the temple, but your son who will come from your body, he shall build the temple for My name.'

So the LORD has fulfilled His word which He spoke, and I have filled the position of my father David, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised; and I have built the temple for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

(for Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and he stood on it, knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven);

then hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone know the hearts of the sons of men),

"Moreover, concerning a foreigner, who is not of Your people Israel, but has come from a far country for the sake of Your great name and Your mighty hand and Your outstretched arm, when they come and pray in this temple;