Now seek the LORD your God wholeheartedly and with your entire being! Get up and build the sanctuary of the LORD God! Then you can bring the ark of the LORD’s covenant and the holy items dedicated to God’s service into the temple that is built to honor the LORD.”
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10Realize now that the LORD has chosen you to build a temple as his sanctuary. Be strong and do it!”
19He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the LORD could be placed there.
11“Now, my son, may the LORD be with you! May you succeed and build a temple for the LORD your God, just as he announced you would.
2King David rose to his feet and said:“Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I wanted to build a temple where the ark of the LORD’s covenant could be placed as a footstool for our God. I have made the preparations for building it.
1David then said,“This is the place where the temple of the LORD God will be, along with the altar for burnt sacrifices for Israel.”
2David Orders a Temple to Be Built David ordered the resident foreigners in the land of Israel to be called together. He appointed some of them to be stonecutters to chisel stones for the building of God’s temple.
20The LORD has kept the promise he made. I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built this temple for the honor of the LORD God of Israel
21and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the LORD made with our ancestors when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
6He summoned his son Solomon and charged him to build a temple for the LORD God of Israel.
7David said to Solomon:“My son, I really wanted to build a temple to honor the LORD my God.
8They settled down in it and built in it a temple to honor you, saying,
12He told them:“You are the leaders of the Levites’ families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves and bring the ark of the LORD God of Israel up to the place I have prepared for it.
8Go up to the hill country and bring back timber to build the temple. Then I will be pleased and honored,’ says the LORD.
41Now ascend, O LORD God, to your resting place, you and the ark of your strength! May your priests, O LORD God, experience your deliverance! May your loyal followers rejoice in the prosperity you give!
1Solomon Gathers Building Materials for the Temple(1:18) Solomon ordered a temple to be built to honor the LORD, as well as a royal palace for himself.
2He appointed the priests to fulfill their duties and encouraged them to carry out their service in the LORD’s temple.
3He told the Levites, who instructed all Israel about things consecrated to the LORD,“Place the holy ark in the temple which King Solomon son of David of Israel built. Don’t carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel!
14The priests and Levites consecrated themselves so they could bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.
7Now my father David had a strong desire to build a temple to honor the LORD God of Israel.
10The LORD has kept the promise he made. I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built this temple for the honor of the LORD God of Israel
11and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the LORD made with the Israelites.”
15He said to him,“Take these vessels and go deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt in its proper location.”
16O LORD our God, all this wealth, which we have collected to build a temple for you to honor your holy name, comes from you; it all belongs to you.
17Now my father David had a strong desire to build a temple to honor the LORD God of Israel.
5So I have decided to build a temple to honor the LORD my God, as the LORD instructed my father David,‘Your son, whom I will put on your throne in your place, is the one who will build a temple to honor me.’
3David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring the ark of the LORD up to the place he had prepared for it.
5He said to them:“Listen to me, you Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, so you can consecrate the temple of the LORD God of your ancestors! Remove from the sanctuary what is ceremonially unclean!
8Ascend, O LORD, to your resting place, you and the ark of your strength!
19Deliver to the God of Jerusalem the vessels that are given to you for the service of the temple of your God.
44“When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, and they direct their prayers to the LORD toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor,
3Anyone of his people among you(may his God be with him!) may go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and may build the temple of the LORD God of Israel– he is the God who is in Jerusalem.
18“God does not really live with humankind on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!
34“When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, and they direct their prayers to you toward this chosen city and this temple I built for your honor,
5The Exiles Prepare to Return to Jerusalem Then the leaders of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and the Levites– all those whose mind God had stirred– got ready to go up in order to build the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem.
61May you demonstrate wholehearted devotion to the LORD our God by following his rules and obeying his commandments, as you are presently doing.”
2David and all the men who were with him traveled to Baalah in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.
27for you, O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, have told your servant,‘I will build you a dynastic house.’ That is why your servant has had the courage to pray this prayer to you.
4(Now David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim to the place he had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.
19But if your own land is impure, cross over to the LORD’s own land, where the LORD himself lives, and settle down among us. But don’t rebel against the LORD or us by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the LORD our God.
6Of course, who can really build a temple for him, since the sky and the highest heavens cannot contain him? Who am I that I should build him a temple! It will really be only a place to offer sacrifices before him.
19everyone who has determined to follow God, the LORD God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.”
19Make my son Solomon willing to obey your commands, rules, and regulations, and to complete building the palace for which I have made preparations.”
25for you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build a dynasty for him. That is why your servant has had the courage to pray to you.
1David Brings the Ark to Jerusalem David constructed buildings in the City of David; he then prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.
10Now I intend to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger.
3and commanded the people:“When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God being carried by the Levitical priests, you must leave here and walk behind it.
27“God does not really live on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!
6including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work.
16Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.
38When they return to you with all their heart and being in the land where they are held prisoner and direct their prayers toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor,