I Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 355

8--57 THE MONARCHICAL PERIOD.-I. KINGS. 9--zo 57 S9 6: 05 56 For not one word has failed, Of all His good word which He spoke By the means of his servant Moses ! Our LIVING GOD has been with us, As He was with our fathers; He has not forsaken or cast off : So let our hearts be glad of Him, And walk in all His paths, And keep to His Commands, His Institutions, and Decrees, That He ordered to our fathers. Let these words I pray to the LORD Be near our L1v1NG Gon by day and night, To make His servant righteous, And administer justly the affairs, Of His People Israel daily, That all the Nations of the earth may know, That the LORD alone is enduring, And let our hearts be at peace with the Loan, To walk by His Institutions, And to keep His Commands from (ac. 1oo4). W32 Qzhiruiurg §n:ri§c2. Then the king, and all the people

with him, sacrificed sacrifices to the EVER-LIVING. But Solomon sacri~ ficed as the thank—oHering, which was saciixiced to the Eviza-Lzvxuo, twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep, by which the king and all the Assembly of Israel dedicated the House to the EvER—L1vING. On the same day the king consecrated the open court which is before the House of the EvER—L1v1NG, for he offered there the burnt-offering and the bread·offering, and the fats of the thank-offering, for the brass altar which is before the Evan-Livmo was too small for the consumption of the burnt-offerings and the bread-oHer— ings, and the fat of the thank- offerings. At the same period Solomon also

made a festival and all Israel with him,--at a great Assembly from the Pass of Khamath, to the River of Egypt, before our EvER—L1v1NG GGD, for seven days, and seven days; fourteen days. Upon the eighth day the king blessed and dismissed the people, and they went to their homes rejoicing, and glad-hearted, over all the benefits which the EvER·L1v1NG had given to David His servant, and to Israel His People. (About s.c. goz.) Sanuk ilzlzzlatisxt in Sulmxwn. And when Solomon had finished

building the House of the EVER- Lrvmc, and the King’s Palace, and all the columns Solomon delighted to make, then the Evan- uvms appeared to Solomon as He appeared to him in Gibaon, and the EVER- I have heard your prayer and the supplication that you supplicated before Me when you consecrated this House, which you have built, to place My NAME in for ever, and for My eyes and heart to be there at all times; so now if you walk before Me, as David your father walked, with straight heart, and endeavouring to do right, accord- ing to all that I have commanded you, preserving My Institutions and Decrees, then I will confirm the throne of your kingship over Israel for ever, as I promised your father l`here shall not be wanting a man for you upon the throne of Israel.’ But if yon, or your children, turn from following Me, and do not keep My Commandments and My Institutions, which I placed before them, but go and serve other gods, and worship them ;·-1 will cut Israel from off the face of the ground which I gave to them, and the house which you have consecrated for My N AME. And Iwill them send from My presence, and Israel shall become a proverb and a scorn to all nations. And this House, that is high above all beside it, shall be thrown down and broken. And when men ask, ’ Why has the Evan-Lxvmo done so to this country, and this House?’ they will reply, ‘ Because they for- sook their Even-1.1vmo Goo Who brought their fathers out from the land of the Mitzeraim, and have addicted themselves to other gods, and worshipped them, and have served them; therefore the EvER= Livme brought upon them all this (ac. 992). Sulnmmz mth hilyirnm of Eyre settle up Qcrmxnis. After about twenty years during io which Solomon had built the two 355