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Bible Reading for June 17
1Kings 8
[1] Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the
tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon
in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out
of the city of David, which is Zion. [2] And all the men of Israel assembled
themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the
seventh month. [3] And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up
the ark. [4] And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of
the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even
those did the priests and the Levites bring up. [5] And king Solomon, and all
the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before
the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for
multitude. [6] And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD
unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even
under the wings of the cherubims.
[7] For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark,
and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above. [8] And they
drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy
place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are
unto this day.
[9] There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put
there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel,
when they came out of the land of Egypt. [10] And it came to pass, when the
priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of
the LORD, [11] So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the
cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD. [12] Then
spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in thick darkness.
[13] I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee
to abide in for ever.
[14] And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of
Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;) [15] And he said, Blessed
be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father,
and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying, [16] Since the day that I brought
forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of
Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to
be over my people Israel. [17] And it was in the heart of David my father to
build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
[18] And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to
build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart. [19]
Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth
out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name. [20] And the LORD
hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David
my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have
built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel. [21] And I have set
there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made
with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
[22] And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the
congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven: [23] And he
said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on
earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk
before thee with all their heart: [24] Who hast kept with thy servant David my
father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast
fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
[25] Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father
that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight
to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way,
that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me. [26] And now, O God of
Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy
servant David my father. [27] But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold,
the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house
that I have builded?
[28] Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his
supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which
thy servant prayeth before thee to day: [29] That thine eyes may be open
toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast
said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which
thy servant shall make toward this place.
[30] And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people
Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy
dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive. [31] If any man trespass
against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and
the oath come before thine altar in this house: [32] Then hear thou in heaven,
and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon
his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his
righteousness. [33] When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy,
because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and
confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:
[34] Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and
bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers. [35] When
heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against
thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from
their sin, when thou afflictest them: [36] Then hear thou in heaven, and
forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach
them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which
thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
[37] If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew,
locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of
their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; [38] What
prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people
Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread
forth his hands toward this house: [39] Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling
place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose
heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the
children of men;) [40] That they may fear thee all the days that they live in
the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
[41] Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but
cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake; [42] (For they shall hear of
thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he
shall come and pray toward this house; [43] Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling
place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all
people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel;
and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy
name. [44] If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever
thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou
hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name: [45] Then
hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their
cause.
[46] If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and
thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry
them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near; [47] Yet if they
shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and
repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them
captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed
wickedness; [48] And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all
their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and
pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the
city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:
[49] Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling
place, and maintain their cause, [50] And forgive thy people that have sinned
against thee and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed
against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive,
that they may have compassion on them:
[51] For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest
forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron: [52] That thine
eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the
supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call
for unto thee.
[53] For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to
be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when
thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD. [54] And it was so, that
when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto
the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his
knees with his hands spread up to heaven. [55] And he stood, and blessed all
the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
[56] Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel,
according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his
good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant. [57] The
LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor
forsake us:
[58] That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to
keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded
our fathers.
[59] And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the
LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause
of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter
shall require:
[60] That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that
there is none else.
[61] Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his
statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day. [62] And the king, and
all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD.
[63] And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto
the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand
sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the
LORD.
[64] The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before
the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat
offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that
was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat
offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings. [65] And at that time Solomon
held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering
in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and
seven days, even fourteen days. [66] On the eighth day he sent the people
away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of
heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and
for Israel his people.
1Kings 9
[1] And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house
of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was
pleased to do,
[2] That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto
him at Gibeon.
[3] And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication,
that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast
built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be
there perpetually.
[4] And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity
of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded
thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments: [5] Then I will establish
the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy
father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
[6] But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and
will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but
go and serve other gods, and worship them: [7] Then will I cut off Israel out
of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for
my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a
byword among all people: [8] And at this house, which is high, every one that
passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why
hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
[9] And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who
brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon
other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD
brought upon them all this evil. [10] And it came to pass at the end of twenty
years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the
king's house, [11] (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with
cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that
then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. [12] And
Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and
they pleased him not.
[13] And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother?
And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day. [14] And Hiram sent to the
king sixscore talents of gold. [15] And this is the reason of the levy which
king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house,
and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. [16]
For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with
fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a
present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife. [17] And Solomon built Gezer, and
Beth-horon the nether, [18] and Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the
land, [19] And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his
chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build
in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. [20] And
all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites,
and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
[21] Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children
of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a
tribute of bondservice unto this day. [22] But of the children of Israel did
Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his
princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen. [23]
These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work, five
hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.
[24] But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house
which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo. [25] And three times
in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar
which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was
before the LORD. So he finished the house. [26] And king Solomon made a navy
of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea,
in the land of Edom. [27] And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen
that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. [28] And they
came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents,
and brought it to king Solomon.
1Kings 10
[1] And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the
name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions. [2] And she came
to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very
much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed
with him of all that was in her heart. [3] And Solomon told her all her
questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not.
[4] And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house
that he had built,
[5] And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the
attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his
ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more
spirit in her.
[6] And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own
land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. [7] Howbeit I believed not the words,
until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told
me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
[8] Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually
before thee, and that hear thy wisdom. [9] Blessed be the LORD thy God, which
delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved
Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice. [10]
And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices
very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of
spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. [11] And the
navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great
plenty of almug trees, and precious stones. [12] And the king made of the
almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps
also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen
unto this day. [13] And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her
desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal
bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants. [14]
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred
threescore and six talents of gold. [15] Beside that he had of the
merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings
of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
[16] And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred
shekels of gold went to one target. [17] And he made three hundred shields of
beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in
the house of the forest of Lebanon.
[18] Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the
best gold.
[19] The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and
there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood
beside the stays.
[20] And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the
six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom. [21] And all king
Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of
the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing
accounted of in the days of Solomon. [22] For the king had at sea a navy of
Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of
Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
[23] So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for
wisdom.
[24] And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had
put in his heart.
[25] And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of
gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by
year.
[26] And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a
thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he
bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem. [27] And
the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as
the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance. [28] And Solomon had
horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the
linen yarn at a price. [29] And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for
six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so
for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring
them out by their means.
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