Daily Reading

2 Chronicles 5:2-9:31

5:2 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.
5:3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto
the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.

5:4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up
the ark.

5:5 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.

5:6 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.

5:7 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:

5:8 For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place
of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves
thereof above.

5:9 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.

5:10 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.

5:11 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:

5:12 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:)

5:13 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;

5:14 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.

6:1 Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in
the thick darkness.

6:2 But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.
6:3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole
congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel
stood.

6:4 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,

6:5 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:

6:6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there;
and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

6:7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house
for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

6:8 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:

6:9 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.

6:10 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.

6:11 And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of
the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.

6:12 And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence
of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:

6:13 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,

6:14 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:

6:15 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.

6:16 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.

6:17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified,
which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.

6:18 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!

6:19 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:

6:20 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.

6:21 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.

6:22 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;

6:23 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.

6:24 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;

6:25 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.

6:26 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;

6:27 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.

6:28 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:

6:29 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:

6:30 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:)

6:31 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as
they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

6:32 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;

6:33 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.

6:34 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;

6:35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their
supplication, and maintain their cause.

6:36 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;

6:37 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;

6:38 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:

6:39 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.

6:40 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.

6:41 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.

6:42 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed:
remember the mercies of David thy servant.

7:1 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came
down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the
sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.

7:2 And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house.
7:3 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came
down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed
themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement,
and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is
good; for his mercy endureth for ever.

7:4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before
the LORD.

7:5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two
thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the
king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

7:6 And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also
with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king
had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for
ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests
sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.

7:7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was
before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt
offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the
brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the
burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.

7:8 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and
all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the
entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.

7:9 And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they
kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast
seven days.

7:10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he
sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart
for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to
Solomon, and to Israel his people.

7:11 Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's
house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the
house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously
effected.

7:12 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto
him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to
myself for an house of sacrifice.

7:13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command
the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among
my people;

7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble
themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their
wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive
their sin, and will heal their land.

7:15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the
prayer that is made in this place.

7:16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my
name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall
be there perpetually.

7:17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy
father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded
thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;

7:18 Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according
as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall
not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.

7:19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my
commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and
serve other gods, and worship them;

7:20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which
I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for
my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be
a proverb and a byword among all nations.

7:21 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to
every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath
the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?

7:22 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God
of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of
Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and
served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.

8:1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein
Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,

8:2 That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
8:3 And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.

8:4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store
cities, which he built in Hamath.

8:5 Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether,
fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

8:6 And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and
all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all
that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and
throughout all the land of his dominion.

8:7 As for all the people that were left of the Hittites,
and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, which were not of Israel,

8:8 But of their children, who were left after them in the
land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did
Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.

8:9 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants
for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his
captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.

8:10 And these were the chief of king Solomon's officers,
even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.

8:11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the
city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he
said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of
Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the
LORD hath come.

8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the
altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,

8:13 Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to
the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new
moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year,
even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of
weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

8:14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his
father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the
Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the
priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by
their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God
commanded.

8:15 And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto
the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning
the treasures.

8:16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of
the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was
finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected.

8:17 Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea
side in the land of Edom.

8:18 And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and
servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the
servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and
fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

9:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon,
she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem,
with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and
gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come
to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

9:2 And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.
9:3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon,
and the house that he had built,

9:4 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants,
and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his
cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he
went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in
her.

9:5 And she said to the king, It was a true report which I
heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:

9:6 Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine
eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness
of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame
that I heard.

9:7 Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants,
which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.

9:8 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set
thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because
thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore
made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.

9:9 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold,
and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was
there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.

9:10 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of
Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and
precious stones.

9:11 And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the
house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and
psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in
the land of Judah.

9:12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire,
whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto
the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and
her servants.

9:13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was
six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;

9:14 Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all
the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold
and silver to Solomon.

9:15 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold:
six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.

9:16 And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three
hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put
them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

9:17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and
overlaid it with pure gold.

9:18 And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool
of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each
side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:

9:19 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the
other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any
kingdom.

9:20 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of
gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon
were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any
thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

9:21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of
Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish
bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

9:22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in
riches and wisdom.

9:23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of
Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.

9:24 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver,
and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses,
and mules, a rate year by year.

9:25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and
chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the
chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

9:26 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto
the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

9:27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar
trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low
plains in abundance.

9:28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out
of all lands.

9:29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are
they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the
prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo
the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

9:30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty
years.

9:31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in
the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in
his stead.



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