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And Joab said to King David, May the LORD make his people a hundred times so many more as they are, and let the eyes of my lord the king see it, for they are all his servants; why then should our lord the king require this thing?

So Gad the prophet came to David and said to him, Thus says the LORD: Choose for yourself

So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

So David bought from Aran that place of the threshing floor for fifty shekels.

And David said, Solomon my son is still a small boy, and concerning him it is said in the book that he will build a house to the LORD which will be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries; I will therefore prepare everything necessary for it while I am living. So David prepared everything that was needed for the house, and lacked nothing.

Now, my son, the LORD be with you, so that you may prosper, and build the house of the LORD your God, as he has said to me.

So the number of them, with their brethren who were instructed in the songs of the LORD, was two hundred and eighty-eight.

And, behold, the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, I have given them authority over all the service of the house of the LORD; and they are with you, and shall be in charge of all the service; and they will do the work with skill, all the workmanship which is necessary for the service of the house of the LORD. And, behold, I have appointed over them authorities and overseers, so that they may seek and render all manner of service which is necessary.

The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by craftsmen, so that the work may be completed in its month, and that no work should be left undone, but be finished in its due time, according to the expenses thereof.

So Solomon and all the people who were with him went to a great banquet that was at the town of Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of the LORD, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this thy people that is so great?

And they went up and bought a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; and so through the kings merchants they brought horses for all the kings of the Hittites and for the kings of Aram.

And he made ten lavers of brass, and put five on the right hand and five on the left, so that the priests might wash their hands and their feet in them.

And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from underneath the ark within the house, but they were not seen from the outside. And there they remain to this day.

So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the house of the LORD was filled with the brightness of his glory.

That they may revere thee, to walk before thee in thy ways so long as they live in the land which thou gavest to their fathers.

Then hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven, and do according to all that the stranger prays before thee, so that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name and worship before thee, as do thy people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep; so the king and all the people dedicated the house of the LORD.

If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; and the porters also by their courses, to guard the doors every day; for so had David the king of Israel, whom the LORD had made king, commanded.