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2 Chronicles · read by Alan Cairns
43 verses, in order. Only the verses Alan read aloud are shown.
2 Chronicles 5
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So all the work that Solomon had performed for the house of the LORD was completed. Then Solomon brought in the items his father David had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and all the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of the house of God.Read from KJV · Preparation for and Possession of Revival
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At that time Solomon assembled in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites—to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David.Read from KJV · Preparation for and Possession of Revival
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So all the men of Israel came together to the king at the feast in the seventh month.Read from KJV · Preparation for and Possession of Revival
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When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark,Read from ESV · Preparation for and Possession of Revival
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and they brought up the ark and the Tent of Meeting with all its sacred furnishings. The Levitical priests carried them up.Read from KJV · Preparation for and Possession of Revival
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There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.Read from KJV · Preparation for and Possession of Revival
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Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.Read from KJV · Preparation for and Possession of Revival
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For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.Read from KJV · Preparation for and Possession of Revival
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The poles of the ark extended far enough that their ends were visible from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.Read from KJV · Preparation for and Possession of Revival
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There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.Read from KJV · Preparation for and Possession of Revival
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Now all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves regardless of their divisions. And when the priests came out of the Holy Place,Read from KJV · Preparation for and Possession of Revival
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all the Levitical singers—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps, and lyres, accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets.Read from KJV · Preparation for and Possession of Revival
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The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the LORD with one voice. They lifted up their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the LORD: "For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever." And the temple, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloudRead from KJV · Preparation for and Possession of Revival
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so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.Read from KJV · Preparation for and Possession of Revival
2 Chronicles 6
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Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.Read from KJV · The Burden and Blessing of Revival
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Now Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had placed it in the middle of the courtyard. He stood on it, knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,Read from KJV · The Burden and Blessing of Revival
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and said: "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven or on earth, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.Read from KJV · The Burden and Blessing of Revival
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You have kept Your promise to Your servant, my father David. What You spoke with Your mouth You have fulfilled with Your hand this day.Read from KJV · The Burden and Blessing of Revival
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Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: 'You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk in My law as you have walked before Me.'Read from KJV · The Burden and Blessing of Revival
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And now, O LORD, God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant David.Read from KJV · The Burden and Blessing of Revival
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But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.Read from KJV · The Burden and Blessing of Revival
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Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You.Read from KJV · The Burden and Blessing of Revival
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May Your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your Name, so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.Read from KJV · The Burden and Blessing of Revival
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Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.Read from KJV · The Burden and Blessing of Revival
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When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,Read from KJV · The Burden and Blessing of Revival
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then may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by rewarding him according to his righteousness.Read from KJV · The Burden and Blessing of Revival
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When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading before You in this temple,Read from KJV · The Burden and Blessing of Revival
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then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to them and their fathers.Read from KJV · The Burden and Blessing of Revival
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When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,Read from KJV · The Burden and Blessing of Revival
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then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.Read from KJV · From Ruin to Revival
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When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,Read from KJV · The Burden and Blessing of Revival
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then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—Read from KJV · The Burden and Blessing of Revival
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be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of men—Read from KJV · The Burden and Blessing of Revival
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so that they may fear You and walk in Your ways all the days they live in the land that You gave to our fathers.Read from KJV · From Ruin to Revival
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Now, my God, may Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.Read from KJV · The Burden and Blessing of Revival
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Now therefore, arise, O LORD God, and enter Your resting place, You and the ark of Your might. May Your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and may Your godly ones rejoice in goodness.Read from KJV · Preparation for and Possession of Revival
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O LORD God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David."Read from KJV · Preparation for and Possession of Revival
2 Chronicles 7
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When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.Read from KJV · From Ruin to Revival
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The priests were unable to enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled it.Read from KJV · From Ruin to Revival
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the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.Read from KJV · From Ruin to Revival
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If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,Read from KJV · From Ruin to Revival
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and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.Read from KJV · From Ruin to Revival
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Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.Read from KJV · From Ruin to Revival