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The house that I am about to build will be great, for our God is greater than other gods.

Huram also said, "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, who will build a temple for the Lord , and a royal palace for himself.

These are Solomon's measurements for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.

And Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. Thus Huram finished the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of God:

So Solomon made all the things that were in the house of God: the golden altar, the tables for the bread of the Presence,

Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the Lord was finished. Solomon brought in the things that his father David had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God.

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

And he said, "Blessed be the Lord , the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to my father David, saying,

My father David had it in mind to build a house for the name of the Lord , the God of Israel.

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

He said, "O Lord , God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant in steadfast love with your servants who walk before you with all their heart—

Therefore, O Lord , God of Israel, keep for your servant, my father David, that which you promised him, saying, ‘There shall never fail you a successor before me to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children keep to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.'

Therefore, O Lord , God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you promised to your servant David.

"But will God indeed reside with mortals on earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!

Regard your servant's prayer and his plea, O Lord my God, heeding the cry and the prayer that your servant prays to you.

Now, O my God, let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to prayer from this place.

"Now rise up, O Lord God, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might. Let your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let your faithful rejoice in your goodness.

O Lord God, do not reject your anointed one. Remember your steadfast love for your servant David."

King Solomon offered as a sacrifice twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord the God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they adopted other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore he has brought all this calamity upon them.'"