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Bible Reading for September 01

2 Chronicles 4
[1] Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof,
and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
[2] Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in
compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits
did compass it round about.
[3] And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round
about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen
were cast, when it was cast.
[4] It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three
looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three
looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their
hinder parts were inward.
[5] And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the
work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held
three thousand baths.
[6] He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on
the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt
offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
[7] And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set
them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left. [8] He
made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right
side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold. [9]
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and
doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass. [10] And he
set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.
[11] And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram
finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of
God; [12] To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which
were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two
pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars; [13] And
four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on
each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon 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 for the 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 of gold,
and that perfect gold;
[22] And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of
pure 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 of gold.

2 Chronicles 5
[1] Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was
finished: and Solomon brought in all the 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 is Zion.
[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 were in
the tabernacle, these did the priests and the 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, even under the wings of the cherubims:
[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. [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 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.
[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:
[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:)
[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;
[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.

2 Chronicles 6
[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
be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which 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 is the 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 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: [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.
[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, even from 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] 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: [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, 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. [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 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; [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; [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:
[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. [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. [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.
[42] O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the
mercies of David thy servant.

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