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Bible Reading for September 01
2 Chronicles 4
[1] Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and
twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof. [2] Also
he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and
five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it
round about.
[3] And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about:
ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast,
when it was cast.
[4] It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three
looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking
toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder
parts were inward.
[5] And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the
work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held
three thousand baths.
[6] He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the
left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they
washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in. [7] And he made
ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple,
five on the right hand, and five on the left. [8] He made also ten tables, and
placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And
he made an hundred basons of gold. [9] Furthermore he made the court of the
priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors
of them with brass. [10] And he set the sea on the right side of the east end,
over against the south.
[11] And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram
finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;
[12] To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on
the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of
the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars; [13] And four hundred
pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to
cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.
[14] He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases; [15] One sea, and
twelve oxen under it. [16] The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks,
and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the
house of the LORD of bright brass.
[17] In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between
Succoth and Zeredathah.
[18] Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of
the brass could not be found out. [19] And Solomon made all the vessels that
were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the
shewbread was set; [20] Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they
should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold; [21] And the
flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;
[22] And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of
pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most
holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.
2 Chronicles 5
[1] Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was
finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had
dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among
the treasures of the house of God. [2] 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 Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the
LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
[3] Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the
feast which was in the seventh month. [4] And all the elders of Israel came;
and the Levites took up the ark. [5] And they brought up the ark, and the
tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the
tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up.
[6] Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled
unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told
nor numbered for multitude. [7] And the priests brought in the ark of the
covenant of the LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most
holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims:
[8] For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and
the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above. [9] And they drew
out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark
before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this
day.
[10] There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein
at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they
came out of Egypt.
[11] And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place:
(for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait
by course:
[12] Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman,
of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen,
having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar,
and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
[13] It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make
one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted
up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and
praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever:
that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
[14] So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud:
for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.
2 Chronicles 6
[1] Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick
darkness.
[2] But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy
dwelling for ever.
[3] And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of
Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood. [4] And he said, Blessed be
the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake
with his mouth to my father David, saying, [5] Since the day that I brought
forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes
of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I
any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:
[6] But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen
David to be over my people Israel. [7] Now it was in the heart of David my
father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
[8] But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart
to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:
[9] Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall
come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name. [10] The
LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up
in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the
LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
[11] And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, that
he made with the children of Israel. [12] And he stood before the altar of the
LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his
hands: [13] For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and
five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the
court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the
congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven, [14] And
said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in
the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that
walk before thee with all their hearts: [15] Thou which hast kept with thy
servant David my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with
thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
[16] Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my
father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a
man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children
take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me. [17]
Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast
spoken unto thy servant David. [18] But will God in very deed dwell with men
on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee;
how much less this house which I have built!
[19] Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his
supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy
servant prayeth before thee:
[20] That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place
whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto
the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place. [21] Hearken therefore
unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they
shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from
heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive. [22] If a man sin against his
neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come
before thine altar in this house; [23] Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and
judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his
own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his
righteousness. [24] And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the
enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy
name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house; [25] Then hear
thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring
them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.
[26] When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have
sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name,
and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them; [27] Then hear thou from
heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when
thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain
upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.
[28] If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be
blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them
in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
[29] Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or
of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own
grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house: [30] Then hear thou
from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man
according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest
the hearts of the children of men:) [31] That they may fear thee, to walk in
thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
[32] Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but
is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and
thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house; [33] Then hear
thou from the heavens, even from 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, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this
house which I have built is called by thy name. [34] If thy people go out to
war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray
unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have
built for thy name; [35] Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and
their supplication, and maintain their cause.
[36] If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and
thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they
carry them away captives unto a land far off or near; [37] Yet if they bethink
themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray
unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done
amiss, and have dealt wickedly; [38] If they return to thee with all their
heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they
have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto
their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the
house which I have built for thy name:
[39] Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their
prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy
people which have sinned against thee. [40] Now, my God, let, I beseech thee,
thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made
in this place. [41] Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place,
thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed
with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness. [42] O LORD God, turn
not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
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