Today’s
Reading : 1Kings 8 – 9 and 1Corinthians 5
(KJV)
1Kings 8
1Ki
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.
1Ki 8:2 And all the men of Israel assembled
themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim,
which is the seventh month.
1Ki 8:3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the
priests took up the ark.
1Ki 8:4 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.
1Ki 8:5 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.
1Ki 8:6 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.
1Ki 8:7 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.
1Ki 8:8 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.
1Ki 8:9 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.
1Ki 8:10 And it came to pass, when the priests were
come out of the holy place, that the
cloud filled the house of the LORD,
1Ki 8:11 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.
1Ki 8:12 Then spoke Solomon, The LORD said that he
would dwell in the thick darkness.
1Ki 8:13 I have surely built thee a house to dwell in,
a settled place for thee to abide in forever.
1Ki 8:14 And the king turned his face about, and
blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel
stood;)
1Ki 8:15 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spoke with his
mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
1Ki 8:16 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 a
house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people
Israel.
1Ki 8:17 And it was in the heart of David my father to
build a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
1Ki 8:18 And the LORD said unto David my father,
Whereas it was in thine heart to build a house unto
my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.
1Ki 8:19 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.
1Ki 8:20 And the LORD hath performed his word that he
spoke, 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 a house for the name of the
LORD God of Israel.
1Ki 8:21 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.
1Ki 8:22 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:
1Ki 8:23 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:
1Ki 8:24 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.
1Ki 8:25 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.
1Ki 8:26 And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I
pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy
servant David my father.
1Ki 8:27 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 built?
1Ki 8:28 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
today:
1Ki 8:29 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.
1Ki 8:30 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.
1Ki 8:31 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:
1Ki 8:32 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.
1Ki 8:33 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:
1Ki 8:34 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.
1Ki 8:35 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:
1Ki 8:36 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.
1Ki 8:37 If there be in the land famine, if there be
pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or
if there be caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their
cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there
be;
1Ki 8:38 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:
1Ki 8:39 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;)
1Ki 8:40 That they may fear thee all the days that
they live in the land which thou gavest unto our
fathers.
1Ki 8:41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a
far country for thy name's sake;
1Ki 8:42 (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;
1Ki 8:43 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 built, is called by thy name.
1Ki 8:44 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:
1Ki 8:45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and
their supplication, and maintain their cause.
1Ki 8:46 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;
1Ki 8:47 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;
1Ki 8:48 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:
1Ki 8:49 Then hear thou their prayer and their
supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
1Ki 8:50 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:
1Ki 8:51 For they be
thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the
furnace of iron:
1Ki 8:52 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.
1Ki 8:53 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.
1Ki 8:54 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.
1Ki 8:55 And he stood, and blessed all the
congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
1Ki 8:56 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.
1Ki 8:57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with
our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
1Ki 8:58 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.
1Ki 8:59 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:
1Ki 8:60 That all the people of the earth may know
that the LORD is God, and that there is
none else.
1Ki 8:61 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.
1Ki 8:62 And the king, and all Israel with him,
offered sacrifice before the LORD.
1Ki 8:63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace
offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a
hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel
dedicated the house of the LORD.
1Ki 8:64 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 brazen altar that was before the LORD was
too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of
the peace offerings.
1Ki 8:65 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.
1Ki 8:66 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
1Ki
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,
1Ki 9:2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second
time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
1Ki 9:3 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 forever; and mine eyes
and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
1Ki 9:4 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:
1Ki 9:5 Then I will establish the throne of thy
kingdom upon Israel forever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There
shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
1Ki 9:6 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:
1Ki 9:7 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:
1Ki 9:8 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?
1Ki 9:9 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 worshiped them, and served them:
therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
1Ki 9:10 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,
1Ki 9:11 (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.
1Ki 9:12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the
cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
1Ki 9:13 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.
1Ki 9:14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
1Ki 9:15 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.
1Ki 9:16 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.
1Ki 9:17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,
1Ki 9:18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
1Ki 9:19 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.
1Ki 9:20 And
all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were
not of the children of Israel,
1Ki 9:21 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.
1Ki 9:22 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.
1Ki 9:23 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.
1Ki 9:24 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.
1Ki 9:25 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.
1Ki 9:26 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.
1Ki 9:27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants,
shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
1Ki 9:28 And they came to Ophir,
and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
1Corinthians 5
1Co
5:1 It is reported commonly that there
is fornication among you, and such
fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have
his father's wife.
1Co 5:2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather
mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
1Co 5:3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present
in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed.
1Co 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye
are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1Co 5:5 To deliver such a one unto Satan for the
destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord
Jesus.
1Co 5:6 Your glorying is
not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth
the whole lump?
1Co 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye
may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
1Co 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old
leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the
unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1Co 5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company
with fornicators:
1Co 5:10 Yet not altogether the fornicators of this
world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with
idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
1Co 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep
company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or
an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no not to eat.
1Co 5:12 For what have I to do to judge them also that
are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
1Co 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that
wicked person.