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Bible Reading for September 02

2 Chronicles 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.
[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. [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. [4] Then the king and all the people
offered sacrifices before the LORD. [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.
[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] 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.
[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.
[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. [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. [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. [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.
[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; [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. [15] Now mine
eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in
this place.
[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.
[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 statues and my judgments; [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.
[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; [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.
[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?
[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.

2 Chronicles 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, [2] That the cities which
Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children
of Israel to dwell there. [3] And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and
prevailed against it. [4] And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all
the store cities, which he built in Hamath.
[5] Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fenced
cities, with walls, gates, and bars; [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.
[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] 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.
[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.
[10] And these were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two hundred
and fifty, that bare rule over the people. [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. [12] Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the
altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch, [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. [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.
[15] And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the
priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
[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.
[17] Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the
land of Edom.
[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.

2 Chronicles 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.
[2] And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from
Solomon which he told her not.
[3] And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the
house that he had built,
[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. [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: [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. [7] Happy are thy
men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee,
and hear thy wisdom. [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] 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. [10] And the servants also
of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir,
brought algum trees and precious stones. [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. [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. [13] Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was
six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold; [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. [15] And king Solomon made
two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went
to one target. [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.
[17] Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
[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: [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. [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. [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.
[22] And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
[23] And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear
his wisdom, that God had put in his heart. [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.
[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.
[26] And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of
the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. [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. [28] And they brought unto Solomon
horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
[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?
[30] And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. [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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