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Bible Reading for June 17


1 Kings 8
[1] 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 king
Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of
the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. [2] And all the men of
Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month
Ethanim, which is the seventh month. [3] And all the elders of Israel came,
and the priests took up the ark. [4] And they brought up the ark of the
LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that
were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring
up. [5] And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were
assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and
oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude. [6] And the
priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into
the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of
the cherubims.
[7] For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the
ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above. [8]
And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in
the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there
they are unto this day.
[9] There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses
put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of
Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. [10] And it came to pass,
when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the
house of the LORD, [11] So that the priests could not stand to minister
because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the
LORD. [12] Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in thick
darkness.
[13] I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for
thee to abide in for ever.
[14] And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation
of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;) [15] And he said,
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my
father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying, [16] Since the day
that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of
all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein;
but I chose David to be over my people Israel. [17] And it was in the heart
of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of
Israel.
[18] And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart
to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.
[19] Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall
come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name. [20]
And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in
the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD
promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
[21] And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of
the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the
land of Egypt.
[22] And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all
the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven: [23]
And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven
above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy
servants that walk before thee with all their heart: [24] Who hast kept
with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest
also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this
day.
[25] Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my
father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in
my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to
their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me. [26] And
now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou
spakest unto thy servant David my father. [27] But will God indeed dwell on
the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee;
how much less this house that I have builded?
[28] Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his
supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer,
which thy servant prayeth before thee to day: [29] That thine eyes may be
open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou
hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer
which thy servant shall make toward this place.
[30] And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people
Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy
dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive. [31] If any man trespass
against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear,
and the oath come before thine altar in this house: [32] Then hear thou in
heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his
way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to
his righteousness. [33] When thy people Israel be smitten down before the
enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee,
and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this
house: [34] Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people
Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their
fathers. [35] When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they
have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy
name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: [36] Then hear
thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people
Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and
give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an
inheritance.
[37] If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting,
mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in
the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
[38] What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy
people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and
spread forth his hands toward this house: [39] Then hear thou in heaven thy
dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his
ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the
hearts of all the children of men;) [40] That they may fear thee all the
days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
[41] Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but
cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake; [42] (For they shall hear
of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;)
when he shall come and pray toward this house; [43] Hear thou in heaven 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, to fear thee, as do
thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have
builded, is called by thy name. [44] If thy people go out to battle against
their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the
LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I
have built for thy name: [45] Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and
their supplication, and maintain their cause.
[46] If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and
thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry
them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near; [47] Yet if
they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried
captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them
that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done
perversely, we have committed wickedness; [48] And so return unto thee with
all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies,
which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which
thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the
house which I have built for thy name: [49] Then hear thou their prayer and
their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
[50] And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee and all their
transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them
compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have
compassion on them:
[51] For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest
forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron: [52] That thine
eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the
supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they
call for unto thee.
[53] For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth,
to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant,
when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD. [54] And it was
so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and
supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD,
from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. [55] And he
stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice,
saying,
[56] Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel,
according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all
his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant. [57]
The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave
us, nor forsake us:
[58] That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and
to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he
commanded our fathers.
[59] And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the
LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the
cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as
the matter shall require:
[60] That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and
that there is none else.
[61] Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in
his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day. [62] And the
king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD.
[63] And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered
unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty
thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the
house of the LORD.
[64] The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was
before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and
meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen
altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt
offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings. [65] And
at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great
congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt,
before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
[66] On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king,
and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness
that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.

1Kings 9
[1] And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the
house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he
was pleased to do,
[2] That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared
unto him at Gibeon.
[3] And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy
supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house,
which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and
mine heart shall be there perpetually.
[4] And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in
integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have
commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments: [5] Then I will
establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to
David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne
of Israel.
[6] But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and
will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you,
but go and serve other gods, and worship them: [7] Then will I cut off
Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I
have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be
a proverb and a byword among all people: [8] And at this house, which is
high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and
they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this
house?
[9] And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who
brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold
upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath
the LORD brought upon them all this evil. [10] And it came to pass at the
end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of
the LORD, and the king's house, [11] (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had
furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according
to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the
land of Galilee. [12] And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which
Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
[13] And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my
brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day. [14] And Hiram
sent to the king sixscore talents of gold. [15] And this is the reason of
the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and
his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and
Megiddo, and Gezer. [16] For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken
Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the
city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife. [17]
And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether, [18] and Baalath, and
Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land, [19] And all the cities of store
that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen,
and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and
in all the land of his dominion. [20] And all the people that were left of
the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not
of the children of Israel,
[21] Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the
children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did
Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day. [22] But of the
children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war,
and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his
chariots, and his horsemen. [23] These were the chief of the officers that
were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the
people that wrought in the work.
[24] But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house
which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo. [25] And three
times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon
the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar
that was before the LORD. So he finished the house. [26] And king Solomon
made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of
the Red sea, in the land of Edom. [27] And Hiram sent in the navy his
servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of
Solomon. [28] And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four
hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

1Kings 10
[1] And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the
name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions. [2] And she
came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices,
and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon,
she communed with him of all that was in her heart. [3] And Solomon told
her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he
told her not.
[4] And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the
house that he had built,
[5] And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the
attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his
ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more
spirit in her.
[6] And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own
land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. [7] Howbeit I believed not the words,
until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told
me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
[8] Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand
continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom. [9] Blessed be the LORD
thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel:
because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do
judgment and justice. [10] And she gave the king an hundred and twenty
talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there
came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba
gave to king Solomon. [11] And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold
from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious
stones. [12] And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of
the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers:
there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day. [13] And king
Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked,
beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and
went to her own country, she and her servants. [14] Now the weight of gold
that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents
of gold. [15] Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of
the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors
of the country.
[16] And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred
shekels of gold went to one target. [17] And he made three hundred shields
of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put
them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
[18] Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with
the best gold.
[19] The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind:
and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions
stood beside the stays.
[20] 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. [21] And all king
Solomon's drinking vessels 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
nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. [22] For the king had at sea a
navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy
of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
[23] So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
[24] And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had
put in his heart.
[25] And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels
of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate
year by year.
[26] And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a
thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he
bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem. [27]
And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he
to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance. [28] And
Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's
merchants received the linen yarn at a price. [29] And a chariot came up
and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for
an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the
kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

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