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So now in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, so that you may possess this good land and leave it as an inheritance to your descendants forever.

Then David said to the whole assembly, "Praise the LORD your God." So the whole assembly praised the LORD, the God of their fathers. They bowed down and paid homage to the LORD and to the king.

So Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king in place of his father David. He prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.

But the bronze altar made by Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, was in Gibeon before the tabernacle of the LORD. So Solomon and the assembly inquired of Him there.

Now grant me wisdom and knowledge, so that I may lead this people. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?"

So Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place in Gibeon before the Tent of Meeting, and he reigned over Israel.

So he conscripted 70,000 porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.

So now I am sending you Huram-abi, a skillful man endowed with creativity.

So the total wingspan of these cherubim was twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main room.

Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of God:

So all the work that Solomon had performed for the house of the LORD was completed. Then Solomon brought the consecrated items of his father David-the silver, the gold, and all the furnishings-and he placed them in the treasuries of the house of God.

So all the men of Israel came together to the king at the feast in the seventh month.

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

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

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

'Since the day I brought My people out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over My people Israel.

But I have chosen Jerusalem so that My Name will be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.'

Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You.

May Your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place of which You said You would put Your Name there, so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.

may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.