Second Book of Chronicles - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 979

of the People, aftenvards made a Sacrifice before the Evmz-mvruc. But King Solomon sacrificed a.

Sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. Thus the King and all the People dedicated the House of GOD; while the Priests stood in their official robes, and the Levites, with the instruments of music,which King David had made for the EVER- To praise the LORD. For as when David praised by their Ministry. And the Priests were near them with trumpets, and the Representatives of Israel stood up. §¤l¤m¤ir wnxrsrrruizx tbz ®2mplc xo rr ®mu·i. oiierings and the fats. Wha £¤ti¤mrI 32¤iihn1. to the Canal of Mitzer. People of Israel. Solomon afterwards Consecrated

the Middle Court, which is before the House of the Even-Livme, for there he offered Burnt-offerings, and the fats of the Thank-offerings, because the brazen Altar that Solo- mon had made was not able to receive the Burnuofferings, and the Food- Solomon also made a Festival at

that time for seven days,-—-and all Israel with him, ·- a very great Assembly,-—from the Pass of Hamath, But in the eighth day they made a

concluding Feast,···—for they had made the Dedication of the Altar for seven days; and the Festival for seven days. So on the twenty~third day of the

Seventh Month, he dismissed the People to their Homes, glad and pleased at heart, at the prosperity that the Evan-Livms had provided for David and Solomon, and for His Thus Solomon completed the

House of the EVER-Lxvmo, and the Palace of the King, with all that came to the mind of Solomon to do to the House of the EvER·L1v1NG, and to his own Palace, he effected it. Sulnnwit sux u Qihiuz Qizimr. 12 Then the Loan appeared to Solo- mon at night, and said to him, I have heard your prayers, and I

have chosen this place for Myself as a place of Sacrihce. If I close the skies so that rain 13 comes not; or if I order the locusts to devour the country; or if I send a Plague upon My People; when My People, upon whom My NAME is invoked, kneel and pray, and seek My Presence, and turn from .their wicked courses, then I will listen, and forgive their sins, and will restore health to their land. Mine eyes will always be open, and My ears attentive to the prayers from this place, because I have chosen, and have consecrated this House for My N AME to be there for ever, and My heart there for all times. And yourself, if you walk before

Me, as your father David walked,and do all that I have commanded you, and observe My Institutions, and Decrees; Then I will cause the Throne of

your Empire to be established, as I undertook to your father David, when I said, ‘ A man shall not be wanting to you to govern Israel. ‘But if you turn from them, and

abandon them, and serve seducing Gods, and worship them, I will as a result be pulling you up out of the ground where I planted you, and from this House, that I have conse- crated to MY NAMu;———I will fling you from My Presence, and make a proverb and bye-word to all the Nations! So that all who pass by it will be astonished at this House which was so high, and ask, ‘ Why has the Evan-Livmo done this to this land, and to this Temple?’ They will answer, ‘ Because they abandoned the EVER-LIVING GODof their fathers, who brought them out of the country of the Mitzeraim, and have attached themselves to Seducing Gods, and worshipped them; therefore all this suffering. has come upon them! 16 18 20 2I 22 (992 B.C.) §U1Bl¥IB1t'£ 32lKQ EBR- qurrs §umut1y in ily: Qzltu. It occurred at the end of the twenty 8 years in which Solomon built the Temple of the Evan-Liviuo, and his own Palace and the towns that I-Iuram 2 had sold to Solomon, where Solomon built and settled the Children of Israel,that Solomon advanced against 3 Hamuth in the Zobahl and captured it. 1 Norz.—Ch. 8, v. 3. That is the Delta of

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