2 Chronicles 6
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Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.
And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.
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,
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:
But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
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:
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.
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.
And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.
And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
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,
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:

O Lord God

Genesis 33:20 And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.

Genesis 35:10 And God said to him, Your name is Jacob: your name shall not be called …

Exodus 3:15 And God said moreover to Moses, Thus shall you say to the children …

1 Kings 8:23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven …

1 Kings 18:36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, …

1 Chronicles 29:10,20 Why David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David …

no God

Exodus 15:11 Who is like to you, O LORD, among the gods? who is like you, glorious …

Deuteronomy 4:39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in your heart, that the …

2 Samuel 7:22 Why you are great, O LORD God: for there is none like you, neither …

Psalm 86:8 Among the gods there is none like to you, O Lord; neither are there …

Psalm 89:6,8 For who in the heaven can be compared to the LORD? who among the …

Jeremiah 10:6,16 For as much as there is none like to you, O LORD; you are great, …

keepest covenant

Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD your God, he is God, the faithful God…

Nehemiah 1:5 And said, I beseech you, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God…

Psalm 89:28 My mercy will I keep for him for ever more, and my covenant shall …

Daniel 9:4 And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, …

Micah 7:18-20 Who is a God like to you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the …

Luke 1:72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;

mercy

Psalm 103:17,18 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on them …

Luke 1:50,54,55 And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation…

walk before

Genesis 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Genesis 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to …

1 Kings 3:6 And Solomon said, You have showed to your servant David my father …

1 Kings 6:12 Concerning this house which you are in building, if you will walk …

Luke 1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments …

1 Thessalonians 2:12 That you would walk worthy of God, who has called you to his kingdom and glory.

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.
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.
Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
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!

But will

Exodus 29:45,46 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God…

1 Kings 8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven …

Psalm 68:18 You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive: you have …

Psalm 113:5,6 Who is like to the LORD our God, who dwells on high…

Isaiah 57:15 For thus said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose …

Isaiah 66:1 Thus said the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my …

Acts 7:48,49 However, the most High dwells not in temples made with hands; as …

Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is …

heaven `the heaven and the heavens of heavens;' which words seem to imply that there are systems and systems of systems and systems of systems, each possessing its sun, it primary and secondary planets; all extending beyond each other in unlimited space, in the same regular and graduated order which we find to prevail in our solar system; which, probably, in its thousands of millions of miles in diameter, is, to some others, no more than the area of the lunar orbit to that of Georgium Sidus.

2 Chronicles 2:6 But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven …

Psalm 139:7-10 Where shall I go from your spirit? or where shall I flee from your presence…

Jeremiah 23:24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? said …

2 Corinthians 12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the …

how much

2 Chronicles 32:15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this …

Job 4:19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation …

Job 9:14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

Job 25:4-6 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that …

Matthew 7:11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children…

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:
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.
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.
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;
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.
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;

put to the worse. or, be smitten

Leviticus 26:17,37 And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before …

Deuteronomy 28:25,48 The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall …

Joshua 7:8 O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turns their backs before their enemies!

1 Kings 8:33,34 When your people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because …

Psalm 44:10 You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil …

because

Joshua 7:11,12 Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which …

Judges 2:11,14,15 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and …

2 Kings 17:7-18 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the …

shall return

Leviticus 26:40-42 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, …

Deuteronomy 4:29-31 But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find …

Deuteronomy 30:1-6 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come on you, …

Nehemiah 1:8,9 Remember, I beseech you, the word that you commanded your servant …

Proverbs 28:13 He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoever confesses …

Jeremiah 3:12,13 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, you …

pray

Ezra 9:5 And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having …

Nehemiah 9:1 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel …

Isaiah 63:1-64:12 Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? …

Daniel 9:3 And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, …

in. or, toward

2 Chronicles 6:20 That your eyes may be open on this house day and night, on the place …

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.
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;

the heaven

Leviticus 26:19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven …

Deuteronomy 11:17 And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up …

Deuteronomy 28:23 And your heaven that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth …

1 Kings 17:1-18:46 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said …

Luke 4:25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days …

there is no rain

Isaiah 50:1,2 Thus said the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, whom …

Isaiah 5:6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dig; but there …

Ezekiel 14:13 Son of man, when the land sins against me by trespassing grievously, …

Amos 4:4-9 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; …

Revelation 11:6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of …

if they pray

Jeremiah 14:1-9 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth…

Joel 1:13-20 Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of …

Joel 2:15-17 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly…

turn

Proverbs 28:13 He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoever confesses …

Ezekiel 18:27-32 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he …

thou dost

2 Chronicles 33:12,13 And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled …

Hosea 5:15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense, …

Hosea 6:1 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will …

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.

when thou hast

1 Kings 8:35,36 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned …

Psalm 25:4,5,8,12 Show me your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths…

Psalm 94:12 Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O LORD, and teach him out of your law;

Psalm 119:33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of your statutes; and I shall keep it to the end.

Micah 4:2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the …

John 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. …

good way

Isaiah 30:21 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, …

Jeremiah 6:16 Thus said the LORD, Stand you in the ways, and see, and ask for the …

Jeremiah 42:3 That the LORD your God may show us the way wherein we may walk, and …

send rain

1 Kings 18:40-45 And Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of …

Job 37:11-14 Also by watering he wearies the thick cloud: he scatters his bright cloud…

Psalm 68:9 You, O God, did send a plentiful rain, whereby you did confirm your …

Jeremiah 5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, …

Jeremiah 14:22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? …

Ezekiel 34:26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; …

Hosea 2:21,22 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, said the LORD, …

Joel 2:23 Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your …

Zechariah 10:1 Ask you of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD …

James 5:17,18 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed …

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:

if there be dearth `Persia', says Chardin, `is subject to have its harvest spoiled by hail, by drought, or by insects; either locusts, or small insects, which they call {sim}, which are small white lice;' probably the caterpillars of the text.

2 Chronicles 20:5-13 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, …

Leviticus 26:16,25,26 I also will do this to you; I will even appoint over you terror, …

Deuteronomy 28:21-61 The LORD shall make the pestilence stick to you, until he have consumed …

Ruth 1:1 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there …

1 Kings 8:37-40 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, …

2 Kings 6:25-29 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged …

2 Kings 8:1 Then spoke Elisha to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, …

locusts

Exodus 10:12-15 And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of …

Joel 1:4-7,11 That which the palmerworm has left has the locust eaten; and that …

Joel 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the …

Revelation 9:3-11 And there came out of the smoke locusts on the earth: and to them …

their enemies

2 Chronicles 12:2-5 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak …

2 Chronicles 20:9-13 If, when evil comes on us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, …

2 Chronicles 32:1 After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king …

Leviticus 26:25 And I will bring a sword on you, that shall avenge the quarrel of …

Deuteronomy 28:52-57 And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fenced …

cities of their land [heb] land of their gates
whatsoever

2 Chronicles 32:24 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed to the LORD: …

1 Kings 8:37,38 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, …

James 5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

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:
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:)
That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
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;

the stranger

Exodus 12:48,49 And when a stranger shall sojourn with you, and will keep the passover …

Ruth 1:16 And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave you, or to return from following …

Ruth 2:11,12 And Boaz answered and said to her, It has fully been showed me…

1 Kings 8:41-43 Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of your people Israel, …

1 Kings 10:1,2 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning …

Isaiah 56:3-7 Neither let the son of the stranger, that has joined himself to the …

Matthew 2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod …

Matthew 8:10,11 When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to them that followed, …

John 10:15 As the Father knows me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down …

John 12:20 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:

Acts 8:27-39 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch …

Acts 10:1-4 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion …

Ephesians 2:12,13 That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the …

is come

Exodus 18:8-12 And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh …

Joshua 2:9 And she said to the men, I know that the LORD has given you the land, …

Joshua 9:9 And they said to him, From a very far country your servants are come …

2 Kings 5:3,8,15 And she said to her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet …

Isaiah 60:1-10 Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the LORD is …

Zechariah 8:22 Yes, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of …

Matthew 12:42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, …

thy mighty

Exodus 3:19,20 And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not …

Exodus 13:14 And it shall be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What …

Psalm 89:13 You have a mighty arm: strong is your hand, and high is your right hand.

if they come

Isaiah 66:20 And they shall bring all your brothers for an offering to the LORD …

Zechariah 14:16,17 And it shall come to pass…

Acts 2:10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about …

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.
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;

thy people

2 Chronicles 14:11,12 And Asa cried to the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing …

2 Chronicles 20:4 And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the LORD: …

Deuteronomy 20:1-4 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and …

Joshua 1:2-5 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, …

1 Kings 8:44,45 If your people go out to battle against their enemy, wherever you …

by the way

Numbers 31:2-6 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shall …

Joshua 8:1-8 And the LORD said to Joshua, Fear not, neither be you dismayed: take …

Judges 1:1,2 Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children …

1 Samuel 15:3,18 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, …

they pray

2 Chronicles 14:9-12 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host …

2 Chronicles 18:31 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, …

2 Chronicles 20:6-13 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, are not you God in heaven? and …

2 Chronicles 32:20,21 And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the …

toward

2 Chronicles 6:6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have …

1 Kings 8:13 I have surely built you an house to dwell in, a settled place for …

Isaiah 14:32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the …

Daniel 6:10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his …

Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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;

they sin

1 Kings 8:46,50 If they sin against you, (for there is no man that sins not,) and …

for this is no man

Job 15:14-16 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, …

Psalm 130:3 If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

Psalm 143:2 And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your sight …

Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Ecclesiastes 7:20 For there is not a just man on earth, that does good, and sins not.

James 3:2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, …

1 John 1:8-10 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth …

thou be angry

Leviticus 26:34-44 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate, …

Deuteronomy 4:26,27 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day…

Deuteronomy 28:36,54-68 The LORD shall bring you, and your king which you shall set over …

Deuteronomy 29:24-28 Even all nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land? …

2 Kings 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and …

2 Kings 18:23 Now therefore, I pray you, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, …

2 Kings 15:21 And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they …

Daniel 9:7-14 O LORD, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of faces, …

Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away …

they carry them away captives [heb] they that take them captives carry them away.

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;
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:
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.
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.
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.

arise

Psalm 132:8-10,16 Arise, O LORD, into your rest; you, and the ark of your strength…

thy resting

1 Chronicles 28:2 Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, Hear me, my brothers, …

Isaiah 66:1 Thus said the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my …

the ark

Joshua 3:13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the …

Joshua 6:4,5 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' …

Psalm 110:2 The LORD shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion: rule you …

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power …

thy priests

Isaiah 59:16-18 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no …

Isaiah 61:3,6,10 To appoint to them that mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for …

Romans 13:14 But put you on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for …

Galatians 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Ephesians 4:22-24 That you put off concerning the former conversation the old man, …

Revelation 19:8,14 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, …

thy saints

Nehemiah 9:25 And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses …

Psalm 65:4,11 Blessed is the man whom you choose, and cause to approach to you, …

Isaiah 65:18,19 But be you glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, …

Zechariah 9:17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn …

Philippians 3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and …

Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.

O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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