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

So they brought up the ark, 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 before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be numbered or counted.

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 God.

‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any of the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, so that my name might be there, and I chose no one as ruler over my people Israel;

whatever prayer, whatever plea from any individual or from all your people Israel, all knowing their own suffering and their own sorrows so that they stretch out their hands toward this house;

"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 a land far or near;

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.

When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,

For now I have chosen and consecrated this house so that my name may be there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

According to the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry alongside the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions for the several gates; for so David the man of God had commanded.

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

Every one of them brought a present, objects of silver and gold, garments, weaponry, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.

He said to them, "Come to me again in three days." So the people went away.

So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had said, "Come to me again the third day."

So the king did not listen to the people, because it was a turn of affairs brought about by God so that the Lord might fulfill his word, which he had spoken by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

When all Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, the people answered the king, "What share do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Each of you to your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David." So all Israel departed to their tents.

So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.