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And when he, my father, would have built a house in honour of the Lord God of Israel, (2 Chronicles 6, 7)
But it is not for thee, he said, to build me a house. A house shall be built in my honour, but by thy son, the heir of thy body. (2 Chronicles 6, 9)
That promise of his the Lord has fulfilled; I have come forward in my father David’s place, sit upon the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised I should; it has been mine to build a house to the honour of the Lord, Israel’s God, (2 Chronicles 6, 10)
Folly it were to think that God has a dwelling-place on earth. If the very heavens, and the heaven that is above the heavens, cannot contain thee, what welcome can it offer thee, this house which I have built? (2 Chronicles 6, 18)
Yet it has not been built in vain, O Lord my God, if thou wilt give heed to thy servant’s prayer, that sues for thy favour, listen to the cry of entreaty he makes before thee. (2 Chronicles 6, 19)
be this the meeting-place where thou wilt listen to thy servant’s prayer. Whatever requests I or my people Israel make shall find audience here; thou wilt listen from thy dwelling-place in heaven, and listening, wilt forgive. (2 Chronicles 6, 21)
Has a man wronged his neighbour, and is he ready to clear himself of the charge by an oath? Then, if he comes to this house of thine, to swear the lie before thy altar, (2 Chronicles 6, 22)
Does the sky bar its gates against them, and give no rain, in punishment for their sins? Then, if they come here acknowledging thee with prayer and repentance, and turn away, in their sore need, from their sins, (2 Chronicles 6, 26)
if any one among thy people, accepting that plague or sickness as his own, makes prayer to thee, stretching out his hands in this temple, (2 Chronicles 6, 29)
Still, in heaven, thy secure dwelling-place, thou wilt grant the alien’s prayer. So shall all the world come to hear of thy renown, and fear thee no less than Israel itself; shall doubt no more that this temple I have built claims thy protection. (2 Chronicles 6, 33)
Sometimes thy people will go out to levy war upon their enemies, here and there at thy bidding. Then, as they fall to prayer, let them but turn in the direction of the city thou hast chosen, the temple I have built there in thy honour, (2 Chronicles 6, 34)
and thou, in heaven, wilt listen to their prayer for aid, wilt maintain their cause. (2 Chronicles 6, 35)
