1 Kings 8

1Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.Cross-references: Num 7:2 · Josh 23:2 · Josh 24:1 · 2Sam 5:7 · 2Sam 6:1 · 2Sam 6:6 · +16 more

2All the men of Israel assembled themselves to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.Cross-references: Lev 23:34 · Num 29:12 · Deut 16:13 · 1Ki 8:65 · 2Chr 5:3 · 2Chr 7:8 · +5 more

3All the elders of Israel came, and the priests picked up the ark.Cross-references: Num 4:15 · Num 7:9 · Deut 31:9 · Josh 3:3 · Josh 3:6 · Josh 3:14 · +5 more

4They brought up Yahweh’s ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent. The priests and the Levites brought these up.Cross-references: Ex 40:2 · 1Ki 3:4 · 2Chr 1:3

5King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.Cross-references: 2Sam 6:13 · 1Ki 8:62 · 1Chr 16:1

6The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings.Cross-references: Ex 25:20 · Ex 26:33 · Ex 37:9 · Ex 40:20 · 1Sam 4:4 · 2Sam 6:2 · +9 more

7For the cherubim spread their wings out over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.

8The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen outside. They are there to this day.Cross-references: Ex 25:13 · Ex 37:4 · Ex 40:20 · Josh 4:9 · 2Chr 5:9 · Matt 28:15

9There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.Cross-references: Ex 13:21 · Ex 14:24 · Ex 16:10 · Ex 16:33 · Ex 24:7 · Ex 24:16 · +17 more

10It came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled Yahweh’s house,Cross-references: Ex 40:34 · 2Chr 7:1

11so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.Cross-references: Lev 9:6 · Lev 9:23 · Ezek 43:2 · Ezek 43:4 · Ezek 44:4 · John 1:14 · +5 more

12Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.Cross-references: Ex 20:21 · Lev 16:2 · Deut 4:11 · Deut 5:22 · 2Chr 6:1 · Ps 18:8 · +3 more

13I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.”Cross-references: Ex 15:17 · 2Sam 7:13 · 1Chr 17:12 · 1Chr 22:10 · 1Chr 28:6 · 1Chr 28:10 · +9 more

14The king turned his face around and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood.Cross-references: Josh 22:6 · 2Sam 6:18 · 1Ki 8:55 · 1Chr 16:2 · 2Chr 6:3 · 2Chr 7:6 · +6 more

15He said, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,Cross-references: Josh 21:45 · Josh 23:15 · 2Sam 7:5 · 2Sam 7:12 · 2Sam 7:25 · 2Sam 7:28 · +19 more

16‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.’Cross-references: Deut 12:5 · Deut 12:11 · 1Sam 16:1 · 2Sam 7:4 · 1Ki 8:29 · 1Ki 11:36 · +9 more

17“Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:2 · 1Chr 17:1 · 1Chr 22:7 · 1Chr 28:2

18But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.Cross-references: 2Chr 6:7 · 2Cor 8:12

19Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’Cross-references: 2Sam 7:5 · 2Sam 7:12 · 1Ki 5:3 · 1Chr 17:4 · 1Chr 17:11 · 1Chr 22:8 · +1 more

20Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:15 · 1Chr 28:5 · Neh 9:8 · Isa 9:7 · Jer 29:10 · Ezek 12:25 · +4 more

21There I have set a place for the ark, in which is Yahweh’s covenant, which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”Cross-references: Ex 34:28 · Deut 9:9 · Deut 9:11 · Deut 31:26 · 1Ki 8:5 · 1Ki 8:9

22Solomon stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;Cross-references: Ex 9:29 · Ex 9:33 · 1Ki 8:54 · 2Ki 11:14 · 2Ki 23:3 · 2Chr 6:12 · +6 more

23and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants who walk before you with all their heart;Cross-references: Gen 17:1 · Gen 33:20 · Ex 3:15 · Ex 15:11 · Deut 7:9 · 1Sam 2:2 · +18 more

24who has kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:12 · 2Sam 7:16 · 1Ki 8:15 · 2Chr 6:14

25Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’Cross-references: 2Sam 7:27 · 1Ki 2:4 · 1Ki 9:4 · 1Chr 17:23 · 1Chr 28:9 · 2Chr 6:16 · +2 more

26“Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.Cross-references: Ex 24:10 · 1Sam 1:17 · 2Sam 7:25 · 1Ki 8:23 · 2Chr 1:9 · Ps 41:13 · +5 more

27But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!Cross-references: Deut 10:14 · 2Chr 2:6 · 2Chr 6:18 · Ps 113:4 · Ps 139:7 · Isa 66:1 · +7 more

28Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today;Cross-references: 2Chr 6:19 · Ps 4:1 · Ps 5:1 · Ps 86:3 · Ps 86:6 · Ps 88:1 · +4 more

29that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.Cross-references: Ex 20:24 · Deut 12:11 · Deut 16:2 · Deut 16:6 · Deut 26:2 · 1Ki 8:16 · +21 more

30Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:34 · 1Ki 8:36 · 1Ki 8:39 · 1Ki 8:43 · 1Ki 8:49 · 2Chr 6:21 · +13 more

31“If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house,Cross-references: Ex 22:8 · Lev 5:1 · Num 5:16 · 2Chr 6:22 · Prov 30:9

32then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.Cross-references: Ex 23:7 · Ex 34:7 · Num 5:27 · Deut 25:1 · Prov 1:31 · Prov 17:15 · +7 more

33“When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, if they turn again to you and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house,Cross-references: Lev 26:17 · Lev 26:25 · Lev 26:39 · Deut 28:25 · Deut 28:48 · Josh 7:8 · +13 more

34then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.Cross-references: Gen 13:15 · Ex 6:8 · Josh 21:43 · 1Ki 8:30 · Ezra 1:1 · Ps 106:47 · +8 more

35“When the sky is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and confess your name, and turn from their sin when you afflict them,Cross-references: Lev 26:19 · Deut 11:17 · Deut 28:12 · Deut 28:23 · 2Sam 24:13 · 1Ki 8:29 · +17 more

36then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land which you have given to your people for an inheritance.Cross-references: 1Sam 12:23 · 1Ki 18:1 · 1Ki 18:27 · 1Ki 18:45 · 2Chr 6:26 · Ps 5:8 · +18 more

37“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,Cross-references: Lev 26:16 · Lev 26:25 · Deut 28:21 · Deut 28:25 · Deut 28:38 · Deut 28:52 · +10 more

38whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,Cross-references: 1Ki 8:22 · 2Chr 6:29 · 2Chr 20:5 · Job 7:11 · Ps 32:3 · Ps 42:6 · +14 more

39then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);Cross-references: 1Sam 16:7 · 1Ki 8:32 · 1Ki 8:36 · 1Chr 28:9 · 2Chr 6:30 · Ps 11:4 · +11 more

40that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.Cross-references: Gen 22:12 · Ex 20:20 · Deut 6:2 · Deut 6:13 · 1Sam 12:24 · Ps 115:13 · +8 more

41“Moreover, concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a far country for your name’s sakeCross-references: Ex 18:8 · Ruth 1:16 · Ruth 2:11 · 1Ki 10:1 · 2Ki 5:1 · 2Ki 5:16 · +12 more

42(for they shall hear of your great name and of your mighty hand and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house,Cross-references: Ex 3:13 · Ex 3:19 · Ex 9:15 · Ex 13:14 · Ex 15:14 · Ex 34:5 · +24 more

43hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.Cross-references: Josh 4:24 · 1Sam 17:46 · 2Ki 19:19 · 2Chr 6:33 · Ps 22:27 · Ps 67:2 · +6 more

44“If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name,Cross-references: Num 31:1 · Deut 20:1 · Deut 31:3 · Josh 1:2 · Josh 6:2 · Josh 8:1 · +17 more

45then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.Cross-references: Gen 18:25 · Ps 9:4 · Jer 5:28

46If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;Cross-references: Lev 26:34 · Deut 4:26 · Deut 28:36 · Deut 28:64 · Deut 29:28 · 2Ki 17:6 · +20 more

47yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly,’Cross-references: Lev 26:40 · Deut 4:29 · Deut 30:1 · 2Chr 6:37 · 2Chr 33:12 · Ezra 9:6 · +13 more

48if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen and the house which I have built for your name,Cross-references: Deut 4:29 · Deut 6:5 · Judg 10:15 · 1Sam 7:3 · 1Ki 8:29 · Neh 1:9 · +14 more

49then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;Cross-references: 1Ki 8:45 · 2Ki 19:19 · Zech 1:15

50and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on themCross-references: 2Chr 30:9 · Ezra 7:6 · Ezra 7:27 · Neh 1:11 · Neh 2:4 · Ps 106:46 · +3 more

51(for they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);Cross-references: Ex 32:11 · Num 14:13 · Deut 4:20 · Deut 9:26 · 1Ki 8:53 · 2Chr 6:39 · +5 more

52that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:29 · 2Chr 6:40 · Ps 86:5 · Ps 145:18

53For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.”Cross-references: Ex 19:5 · Ex 33:16 · Num 23:9 · Deut 4:34 · Deut 7:6 · Deut 9:26 · +9 more

54It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before Yahweh’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:22 · 2Chr 6:12 · 2Chr 7:1 · Ps 95:6 · Luke 11:1 · Luke 22:41 · +3 more

55He stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,Cross-references: Num 6:23 · 2Sam 6:18 · 1Ki 8:14 · 1Chr 16:2

56“Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.Cross-references: Deut 3:20 · Deut 12:10 · Deut 12:12 · Josh 21:44 · Josh 23:14 · 1Sam 3:19 · +6 more

57May Yahweh our God be with us as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us,Cross-references: Deut 31:6 · Deut 31:8 · Josh 1:5 · Josh 1:9 · 1Sam 12:22 · 1Chr 28:9 · +9 more

58that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.Cross-references: Deut 4:1 · Deut 4:45 · Deut 6:1 · Ps 110:3 · Ps 119:36 · Song 1:4 · +4 more

59Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as every day requires;Cross-references: Deut 33:25 · Ps 102:1 · Ps 141:2 · Luke 11:3 · John 17:9 · John 17:20 · +1 more

60that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh himself is God. There is no one else.Cross-references: Deut 4:35 · Deut 4:39 · Josh 4:24 · 1Sam 17:46 · 1Ki 8:43 · 1Ki 18:39 · +8 more

61“Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”Cross-references: Gen 17:1 · Deut 18:13 · 1Ki 11:4 · 1Ki 15:3 · 1Ki 15:14 · 2Ki 20:3 · +6 more

62The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh.Cross-references: 2Sam 6:17 · 2Chr 7:4 · Ezra 6:16

63Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, twenty two thousand head of cattle and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated Yahweh’s house.Cross-references: Lev 3:1 · Num 7:10 · Num 7:84 · 1Chr 29:21 · 2Chr 2:4 · 2Chr 7:5 · +9 more

64The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before Yahweh’s house; for there he offered the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.Cross-references: 2Chr 4:1 · 2Chr 7:7

65So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.Cross-references: Gen 15:18 · Ex 23:31 · Lev 23:34 · Num 34:5 · Num 34:8 · Josh 13:3 · +11 more

66On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.Cross-references: Deut 12:7 · Deut 12:12 · Deut 12:18 · Deut 16:11 · 1Ki 8:1 · 1Ki 8:47 · +18 more