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Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; the weight of the bronze was not determined.

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,

So they brought up the ark of the Lord , the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up.

King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.

For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles.

The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside; they are there to this day.

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 .

whatever prayer, whatever plea there is from any individual or from all your people Israel, all knowing the afflictions of their own hearts so that they stretch out their hands toward this house;

so that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our ancestors.

then hear in heaven your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and so that they may know that your name has been invoked on this house that I have built.

"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;

and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions that they have committed against you; and grant them compassion in the sight of their captors, so that they may have compassion on them

so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other.

Solomon offered as sacrifices of well-being to the Lord twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord .

So Solomon held the festival at that time, and all Israel with him—a great assembly, people from Lebo-hamath to the Wadi of Egypt—before the Lord our God, seven days.

Therefore he said, "What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?" So they are called the land of Cabul to this day.

so Solomon rebuilt Gezer), Lower Beth-horon,

their descendants who were still left in the land, whom the Israelites were unable to destroy completely—these Solomon conscripted for slave labor, and so they are to this day.

Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and sacrifices of well-being on the altar that he built for the Lord , offering incense before the Lord . So he completed the house.

So she said to the king, "The report was true that I heard in my own land of your accomplishments and of your wisdom,