wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which wereupon 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 forthe 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 ofgold, andthat perfect gold;
22 And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, ofpure 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 ofgold.
1 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon
brought in allthe 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 isZion.
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 werein the tabernacle, these did the priests andthe 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, evenunder the wings of the cherubims:
8 For the cherubims spread forth theirwings 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 wasnothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put thereinat Horeb, when
the LORD made a covenantwith 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 werepresent were sanctified, anddid not thenwait by course:
12 Also the Levites which werethe singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with
their sons and their brethren, beingarrayed 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 wereas one, to make one sound to be
heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up theirvoice with the trumpets
and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he isgood; for his
mercy endurethfor ever: that thenthe house was filled with a cloud, eventhe 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.
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 bethe LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled thatwhich
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 isthe 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 isno God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth;
which keepest covenant, and shewestmercy 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 itwith thine hand, as it isthis 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, evenfrom 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 Thenwhat prayer orwhat 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, evenfrom 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 doththy 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 isno man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with
them, and deliver them over before theirenemies, and they carry them away captives unto a
land far off or near;
37 Yet ifthey 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 towardthe city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house
which I have built for thy name: