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Καὶ ἐγένετο ὡς συνετέλεσεν Σαλωμὼν τοῦ οἰκοδομῆσαι τὸν οἶκον Κυρίου καὶ τὸν οἶκον ἑαυτοῦ μετὰ εἴκοσι ἔτη, τ[οτε ἐξεκκλησίασεν ὁ βασιλεὺς Σαλωμὼν πάντας τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους Ἰσραὴλ ἐν Σειὼν τοῦ ἐνεγκεῖν τὴν κιβωτὸν διαθήκης Κυρίου ἐκ πόλεως Δαυείδ, αὕτη ἐστὶν
Σειών,

ἐν μηνὶ Ἀθαμείν.

καὶ ἦραν οἱ ἱερεῖς τὴν κιβωτὸν

καὶ τὸ σκήωνμα τοῦ μαρτυρίου καὶ τὰ σκεύη τὰ ἅγια τὰ ἐν τῷ σκηνώματι τοῦ
μαρτυρίου·

καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ πᾶς Ἰσραὴλ ἔμποσθεν τῆς κιβωτοῦ
θύοντες πρόβατα, βόας, αναρίθμητα.

καὶ εἰσθέρουσιν οἱ ἱερεῖς τὴν κιβωτὸν εἰς τὸν τόπον αὐτῆς, εἰς τὸ δαβεὶρ τοῦ οἴκου, εἰς τὰ ἅγια τῶν
ἁγίων, ὑπὸ τὰς πτέρυγας τῶν χερουβείν.

ὅτι τὰ χερουβεὶν διαπε- πετασμενα ταῖς πτέρυξιν ἐπὶ τὸν τόπον τῆς κιβωτοῦ· καὶ περιε- κάλυπτον τὰ χερουβεὶν ἐπὶ τὴν κιβωτὸν καὶ ἐπὲ τὰ ἅγια αὐτῆς
ἀπάνωθεν,

καὶ ὑπερεῖχον τὰ ἡγιασμένα· καὶ ἐνεβλέποντο αἱ κεφα- λαὶ τῶν ἡγιασμένων ἐκ τῶν ἁγίων εἰς πρόσωπον τοῦ δαβείρ, καὶ ¹² οὐκ ὠπτάνοντο ἔξω.

οὐκ ἦν ἐν τῇ κιβωτῷ πλὴν δύο πλάκες λίθιναι,
π0λάκες τῆς διαθήκης ἕθηκεν Μωυσῆς ἐν Χωρήβ, ἃ διέθετο Κύριος μετὰ τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ ἐν τῷ ἐκπορεύεσθαι αὐτοὺς ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου.

καὶ ἐγένετο ὡς ἐξῆλθον οἱ ἱερεῖς ἐκ τοῦ ἁγίου, καὶ ἡ νεφέλη ἔπλησεν
τὸν οἶκον·

καὶ οὐκ ἠδύναντο οἱ ἱερεῖς στήκειν λειτουργεῖν ἀπὸ
προσώπου τῆς νεφέλης, ὅτι ἔπλησεν δόξα Κυρίου τὸν οἶκον·

Καὶ
ἀπέστρεψεν ὁ βασιλεὺς τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ, καὶ εὐλόγησεν ὁ βασιλεὺς πάντα Ἰσραήλ· καὶ πᾶσα ἐκκλησία Ἰσραὴλ ἱστήκει·

καὶ
εἶπεν Εὐλογητὸς Κύριος ὁ θεὸς Ἰσραὴλ σήμερον, ὃς ἐλάλησεν ἐν τῷ στόματι αὐτοῦ περὶ Δαυεὶδ τοῦ πατρός μου καὶ ἐν ταῖς χερσὶν ἀυτοῦ ἐπλήρωσεν λέγων

Ἀφ’ ἧς ἡμέρας ἐξήγαγον τὸν λαόν μου τὸν
Ἰσραὴλ ἐξ Αἰγύπτου, οὐκ ἐξελεξάμην ἐν πόλει ἐν ἑνὶ σκήπτρῳ Ἰσραήλ, τοῦ οἰκοδομπησαι οἶναι ἐπὶ τὸν λαόν μου τὸν Ἰσραήλ.

καὶ
ἐγέωετο ἐπὶ τῆς καρδίας τοῦ πατρός μου οἰκοδομῆσαι οἶκον τᾦ ὀνόματι Κυρίου θεοῦ Ἰσραήλ.

καὶ εἶπεν Κύριος πρὸς Δαυεὶδ τὸν πατέρα
μου Ἀνθ’ ὧν ἦλθεν ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίαν σου τοῦ οἰκοδομπησαι οἶκον τῷ ὀνόματί μου, καλῶς ἐποςιησας ὅτι ἐγενήθη ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίαν σου.

σὺ
οὐκ οἰκοδομήσεις τὸν οἶκον· ἀλλ’ ἢ ὁ υἱός σου ὁ ἐξελθὼν ἐκ τῶν πλευρῶν σου, οὑτος οἰκοδομήσει τὸν οἶκον τῷ ὀνόματί μου.

καὶ
ἀνέστησεν Κύριος τὸ ῥῆμα αὐτοῦ ὃ ἐλάλησεν· καὶ ἀνέστην ἀντὶ Δαυεὶδ τοῦ πατρός μου, καὶ ἐκάθιας ἀπὶ τοῦ θρόνου Ἰσραὴλ καθὼς ἐλάλησεν, καὶ ᾠκοδόμησα τὸν οἶκον τᾦ ὀνόματι Κυρίου θεοῦ Ἰσραήλ.

καὶ ἐθέμην ἐκεῖ τόπον τῇ κιβωτῷ ἐν ᾗ ἐστιν ἐκεῖ διαθήκη Κυρίου
ἣν διέθετο Κύριος μετὰ τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν ἐν τῷ ἐξαγαγεῖν αὐτὸν αὐτοὺς ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου.

Καὶ ἀνέστη Σαλωμῶν κατὰ πρόσωπον
τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου Κυρίου ἐνώπιον πάσης ἐκκλησίας Ἰσραήλ, καὶ διεπέτασεν τὰς χεῖρας αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν

καὶ εἶπεν Κύριε
³⁴ ὁ θεὸς Ἰσραήλ, οὐκ ἔστιν ὡς σὺ θεὸς ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ ἄνω καὶ ἐπὶ ⁵ τῆς γῆς κάτω, φυλάσσων διαθήκην καὶ ἔλεος τῷ δούλῳ σου τῷ
πορευομένῳ ἐνώπιον σου ἐν ολῃ τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ,

ἅ ἐφύλαξας τῷ δούλῳ σου Δαυεὶδ τῷ πατρί μου· καὶ γὰρ ἐλάλησας ἐν τῷ στόματί
σου, καὶ ἐν χερσίν σου ἐπλήρωσας ὡς ἡ ἡμέρα αὕτη.

καὶ νυν, Κύριε ο θεὸς Ἰσρήλ, φύλαξον τῷ δούλῳ σου τῷ Δαυεὶδ τῷ πατρί μου ἃ ἐλάλησας αὐτῷ λέγων Οὐκ ἐξαρθήσεταί σου ἀνὴρ ἐκ προσώπου μου καθήμενος ἐπὶ θρόνου Ἰσραήλ, πλὴν ἐὰν φυλάξωνται τὰ τέκνα σου τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτῶν τοῦ πορεύεσθαι ἐνώπιον ἐμοῦ καθὼς ἐπορεύθης
ενώπιον ἐμοῦ.

καὶ νῦν, Κύριε ὁ θεὸς Ἰσραήλ, πιστωθήτω δῆ τὸ
ῤῆμά σου τῷ Δαυεὶδ τω πατρί μου.

ὅτι εἰ ἀληθῶς κατοικήσει ὁ οὐρανὸς τοῦ οὐρανοῦ οὐκ ἀρκεσουσίν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς; εἰ ὁ ουρανὸς καὶ ὁ οὐρανὸς τοῦ οὐρανοῦ οὐκ ἀρκέσουσίν σοι, πλὴν καὶ ὁ οἶκος οὖτος ὃν
ᾠκοδόμησα τῷ ὀνόματί σου;

καὶ ἐπιβλέψῃ ἐπὶ τὴν δέησίν μου, Κύριε ὁ θεὸς Ἰσραήλ, ἀκούειν τῆς τέρψεως ἦς ὁ δοῦλός σου
προσεύχεται ἐνώπιόν σου πρὸς σὲ σήμερον,

τοῦ εἶναι ὀφθαλμούς σου ἠνεῳγμένους εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦτον ἡμέρας καὶ νυκτός, εἰς τὸν τόπον ὃν εἶπας Ἔσται τὸ ὄνομά μου ἐκεῖ, τοῦ εἰσακούειν τῆς προσεχχῆς ἦς προσεύχεται ὁ δοῦλός σου εἰς τὸν τόπον τοῦτον ἡμέρας καὶ
νυκτός.

καὶ εἰσακούςῃ τῆς δεήσεως τοῦ δούλου σου καὶ τοῦ λαοῦ σου Ἰσραήλ, ἃ ἂν προσεύξωνται εἰς τὸν τόπον τοῦτον· καὶ σὺ εἰσακούςῃ ἐν τῷ τόπῳ τῆς κατοικήσεώς σου ἐν ουρανῷ, καὶ ποιήσεις καὶ
ἵλεως ἔσῃ.

ὅσα ἂν ἁμάρτῃ ἕκαστος τῷ πλησίον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐὰν λάβῃ ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ἀρὰν τοῦ ἀρᾶσθαι αὐτόν, καὶ ἔλθῃ καὶ ἐξαγορεύσῃ
κατὰ πρόσωπον τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου σου ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τούτῳ·

καὶ σὺ εἰσακούσει ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ποιήσεις, καὶ κρινεῖς τὸν λαόν σου Ἰσραήλ, ἀνομηθῆναι ἄνομον, δοῦναι τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ εἰς κεφαλὴν αῦτοῦ, καὶ τοῦ δικαιῶσαι δίκαιον, δοῦναι αὐτῷ κατὰ τὴν δικαιοσύνην
αὐτοῦ.

ἐν τῷ πταῖσαι τὸν λαόν σου Ἰσραὴλ ἐνώπιον ἐχθρῶν ὅτι ἁμαρτήσονταί σοι, καὶ ἐπιστρέψουσιν καὶ ἐξομολογήσονται τῷ ὀνόματί ⁶⁷ σου, καὶ προσεύξονται καὶ δεηθήσονται ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τούτῳ·

καὶ
σὺ εἰσακούσῃ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἵλεως ἔσῃ ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις τοῦ δούλου σου Ἰσραήλ, καὶ ἀποστρίψεις αὐτοὺς εἰς τὴν γῆν ἣν ἔδωκας τοὶς πατράσιν αὐτῶν.

ἐν τῷ συσχεθῆναι τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ μὴ γενέσθαι
ὑετὸν ὅτι ἁμαρτήσονταί σοι, καὶ προσεύξονται εἰς τὸν τόπον τοῦτον καὶ ἐξομολογήσονται τῷ ὀνόματί σου, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν αὐτῶν ἀποστρέψουσιν ὅταν ταπεινώσῃς αὐτούς·

καὶ εἰσακούσῃ ἐκ τοῦ
οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἵλεως ἔσῃ ταῖς ἁματρίαις τοῦ δούλου σου καὶ τοῦ λαοῦ σου Ἰσραήλ· ὅτι δηλώσεις αὐτοῖς τὴν ὁδὸν τὴν ἀγαρὴν πορεύεσθαι ἐν αὐτῇ, καὶ δώσεις ὑετὸν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν ἥν ἔδωκας τῷ δούσῳ σου ἐν κληρονομίᾳ.

λιμὸς ἐὰν γένηται, θάνατος ἐὰν γένηται, ὅτι ἔσται
ἐνπυρισμός, βροῦχος, ἐρυςίβη ἐὰν γένηται, καὶ ἐὰν θλίψῃ αὐτὸν ἐχθρὸς αὐτοῦ ἐν μιᾷ τῶν πόλεων αὐτοῦ, πᾶν συνάντημα, πᾶν πόνον,

πᾶσαν προσευχήν, πᾶσαν δέησιν ἐὰν γένηται παντὶ ἀν-
θρώπῳ, ὡς ἂν γνῶσιν ἕκαστος ἁφὴν καρδίας αὐτοῦ, καὶ διαπετάσῃ τὰς χεῖρας αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦτον·

καὶ σὺ εἰσακούσῃ ἐκ τοῦ
οὐρανοῦ ἐξ ἑτοίμου κατοικητηρίου σου καὶ ἵλεως ἔσῃ, καὶ ποιήσεις καὶ δώσεις ἀνδρὶ κατὰ τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτοῦ καθὼς ἂν γνῷς τὴν καρδίαν αὐτοῦ, ὅτι σὺ μονώτατος οἶσας τὴν καρδίαν πάντων υἱῶν ἀνθρώπων,

ὅπως φοβῶνταί δε πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας ὅσας αὐτοὶ ζῶσιν ἐπὶ τῆς
γῆς ἦς ἔδωκας τοῖς πατράσιν ἡμῶν.

καὶ τῷ ἀλλοτρίῳ ὅς οὐκ ἔστιν
ἀπὸ λαοῦ σου οῦτος ,

καὶ ἥξουσιν καὶ προσεύξονται εἰς τὸν τόπον
τοῦτον·

καὶ σὺ εἰσακούσῃ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἐξ ἐτοίμου κατοικητηρίου
σου, καὶ ποιήσεις κατὰ πάντα ὅσα ἂν ἐπικαλέσηταί δε ἱ ἀλλότρις, ὅπως γνῶσιν πάντες οἰ λαοὶ τὸ ὄνομά σου καὶ φοβῶνταί δε καθὼς ὁ λαός σου Ἰσραήλ, καὶ γνπωσιν ὅτι τὸ ὄνομά σου ἐπικέκληται ἐπὶ τὸν λἶκον τοῦτον ὃν ᾠκοδόμησα.

ὅτι ἐξελεύσεται ὁ λαός σου εἰς
πόλεμον ἐπὶ τοὺς ἐχθροὺς αὐτοῦ ἐν ὁδῷ ᾖ ἐπιστρέψεις αὐτούς, καὶ προσεύξονται ἐν ὀνόματι Κυρίου ὁδὸν τῆς πόλεως ἦς ἐξελέξω ἐν αὐτῇ καὶ τοῦ οἴκου οὖ ᾠκοδόμησα τῷ ὀνόματί σου·

καὶ σὺ εἰσακούσει
⁸⁹ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ τῆς δεήσεως αὐτῶν καὶ τῆς προσευχῆς αὐτῶν, καὶ ¹⁰
ποιήσεις τὸ δικαίωμα αὐτοῖς.

ὅτι ἁμαρτήσονταί σοι, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ἄνθρπος ὃς οὐκ ἁμαρτήσεται, καὶ ἐπάξεις αὐτοὺς καὶ παραδώσεις αὐτοὺς ἐνώπιον ἐχθρῶν, καὶ αἰχμαλωτιοῦαιν οἱ αἰχμαλωτιοῦσιν οἱ αἰχμαλωτίζοντες εἰς
γὴν μακρὰν καὶ ἐγγύς,

καὶ ἐπιστρέψουσιν καρδίας αὐτῶν ἐν τῇ γῇ οὗ μετήχθησαν ἐκεῖ, καὶ ἐπιστρέψωσιν ἐν γῇ μετοικάας αὐτῶν καὶ δεηθῶσίν σου λέγοντες Ἡμάρτομεν, ἠδικήσαμεν, ἠνομήσαμεν·

καὶ ἐπιστρέψωσιν πρὸς σὲ ἐν ὅλῃ καρδίᾳ αὐτῶν καὶ ἐν ὅλῃ ψυχῇ αὐτῶν ἐν τῇ γῇ ἐχθρῶν αὐτῶν οὗ μετήγαγες αὐτούς, καὶ προσεύξονται πρὸς σὲ ὁδὸν γῆς αὐτῶν ἧς ἔδωκας τοῖς πατράσιν αὐτῶν, τῆς πόλεως
ἧς ἐξελέξω καὶ τοῦ οἴκου οὗ ᾠκοδόμηκα τῷ ὀνόματί σου·

καὶ εἰσακούσῃ
ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἐξ ἑτοίμου κατοικητηρίου σου,

καὶ ἵλεως ἔσῃ ταῖς ἀδικίαις αὐτῶν αἷς ἥμαρτόν σοι καὶ κατὰ πάντα τὰ ἀθετήματα αὐτῶν ἃ ἠθέτησάν σοι, καὶ δώσεις αὐτοὺς εἰς οἰκτειρμοὺς ἐνώπιον
αἰχμαλωτευόντων αὐτοὺς καὶ οἰκτειρήσουσιν εἰς αὐτούς·

ὅτι λαός σου καὶ κληρονομία σου, οὓς ἐξήγαγες ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου ἐκ μέσου
χωνευτηρίου σιδήρου.

καὶ ἔστωσαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί σου καὶ τὰ ὦτά σου ἠνεῳγμένα εἰς τὴν δέησιν τοῦ δούλου σου καὶ εἰς τὴν δεήσιν τοῦ λαοῦ σου Ἰσραήλ, εἰσακούειν αὐτῶν ἐν πᾶσιν οἷς ἂν ἐπικαλέσωνταί
σε.

καὶ σὺ διέστειλας σαυτῷ εἰς κληρονομίαν ἐκ πάντων τῶν λαῶν τῆς γῆς, καθὼς ἐλάλησας ἐν χειρὶ δούλου σου Μωυςῆ, ἐν τῷ ἐξαγαγεῖν σε τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν ἐκ ηῆς Αἰγύπτου, κύριε Κύριε.

Τότε ἐλάλησεν Σαλωμὼν ὑπὲρ τοῦ οἴκου ὡς συνετέλεσεν τοῦ οἰκοδομῆσαι αὐτόν

Ἥλιον ἐγνώρισεν ἐν οὐρανῷ Κύριος·

εἶπεν τοῦ κατοικεῖν ἐκ γνόφου.

Οἰκοδόμησον οἶκόν μου, οἶκον ἐκπρεπῆ σαυτῷ,

τοῦ κατοικεῖν ἐπὶ καινότητος.

οὐκ ἰδοὺ αὕτη γέγραπται ἐν βιβλίῳ τῆς ᾠδῆς;

Καὶ ἐγένετο ¹¹¹² ὡς συνετέλεσεν Σαλωμὼν προσευχόμενος πρὸς Κύριον προσευχὴν καὶ τὴν δέησιν ταύτην, καὶ ἀνέστηἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου Κυρίου, ὀκλακὼς ἐπὶ τὰ γόνατα αὐτοῦ καὶ αἱ χεῖρες αὐτοῦ διαπεπετασμέναι εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν.

καὶ ἔστη καὶ
εὐλόγησεν πᾶσαν ἐκκλησίαν Ἰσραὴλ Φωνῇ μεγάλῃ λέγων

Εὐλοκατὰ
Κύριος σήμερον, ὃς ἔδωκεν κατάπαυσιν τῷ λαῷ αὐτοῦ Ἱσραὴλ κατὰ πάντα ὅσα ἐλάλησεν. οὐ διεφώνησεν λόγος εἶς ἐν πᾶσιν τοῖς λόγοις αὐτοῦ τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς οἶς ἐλάλησεν ἐν χειρὶ δούλου αὐτοῦ Μωυςῆ.

γένοιτο Κύριος ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν μεθ’ἡμῶν καθὼς ἦν μετὰ
τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν. μὴ ἐγκαταλίποιτο ἡμᾶς μηδὲ ἀποστρέψοιτο ἡμᾶς,

ἐπικλῖναι καρδίας ἡμῶν ἐπ’αὐτὸν τοῦ πορεύεσθαι ἐν πάσαις
ὁδοῖς αὐτοῦ καὶ Φυλάσσειν πάσας ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ καὶ προστάγματα αὐτοῦ ἂ ἐνετείλατο τοῖς πατράσιν ἡμῶν.

καὶ ἔστωσαν οἱ
λόγοι οὖτοι ὡς δεδέημαι ἐνώπιον Κυρίου θεοῦ ποιεῖν τὴ δικαίωμα τοῦ δούλου σου Ἰραὴλ ῥῆμα ἡμέρας ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἐνιαυτοῦ.

ὅπως γνῶσιν
πάντες οἱ λαοὶ τῆς γῆς ὅτι Κύριος ὁ θεός, αὐτὸς θεὸς καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἔτι.

καὶ ἔστωσαξν αἰ καρδίαι ἡμῶν τέλειαι πρὸς Κύριον θεὸν ἡμῶν,
καὶ ὁσίως πορεύεσθαι ἐν τοῖς προστάγμασιν αὐτοῦ καὶ Φυλάσσειν ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ ὡς ἡ ἡμέρα αὕτη.

Καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ πάντες οἱ
υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ ἔθυσαν θυσίαν ἐνώπιον Κυρίου.

καὶ ἔθυσεν ὁ βασιλεὺς
Σαλωμὼν τὰς θυσίας τῶν εἰρηνικῶν ὦν ἔθυσεν τῷ κυρίῳ, βοῶν δύο καὶ εἴκοσι χιλιάδες. καὶ ἐνεκαίνισεν τὸν οἶκον Κυρίου ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ πάντες οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραήλ.

τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείηῃ ἡγίασεν ὁ βασιλεὺς τὸ
μέσον τῆς αὐλῆς τὸ κατὰ πρόσωπον τοῦ οἴκου Κυρίου. ὅτι ἐποίησεν ἐκεῖ τὴν ὁλοκαύτωσιν καὶ τὰς θυσίας καὶ τὰ στέατα τῶν εἰρηνικῶν, ὅτι τὸ θυσιαστήριον τὸ χαλκοῦν τὸ ἐνώπιον Κυρίου μικρὸν τοῦ μὴ δλτβασυαθ τὴν ὁλοκαυτωσιν καὶ τὰς θυσίας τῶν εἰρηνικῶν ὑπενεγκεῖν.

καὶ ἐποίησεν Σαλωμὼν τὴν ἑορτὴν ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείηῃ καὶ πᾶς
¹³¹⁴ Ἰσραὴλ μετ’ αὐτοῦ, ἐκκλησία μεγάλη ἀπὸ τῆς εἰσόδου Ἡμὰθ ἕως ¹⁵ ποταμοῦ Αἰγίπτου, ἐνώπιον Κυρίου θεοῦ ἡμῶν ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ ᾧ ᾠκοδό- μησεν, ἐσθίων καὶ πίνων καὶ εὐφραινόμενος ἐνώπιον Κυρίου θεοῦ
ἡμῶν ἐπτὰ ἡμερας.

καὶ ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ ὀγδόῃ ἐξαέστειλεν τὸν λαίν, καὶ εὐλόγησεν αὐτόν, καὶ ἀπῆλθεν ἕκαστος εἰς τὰ σκηνώματα αὐτοῦ χαίροντες· καὶ ἀγαθὴ ἡ καρδία ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς οἷς ἐποίησεν κύριος τῷ Λαυεὶδ δούλῳ αὐτοῦ καὶ τῷ Ἰσραὴλ λαῷ αὐτοῦ.

I Kings. Septuaginta. ed. Henry Barclay Swete. Germany. 2015.

Current edition First1KGreek

Βασιλειῶν Γʹ (Greek) (Septuaginta. The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint. Volume 1: Genesis-IV Kings. Swete, Henry Barclay, editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1901.)

Translations (1)

I Kings Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 8 focus

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ [houses] of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion.

All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

All the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

They brought up the ark of Yahweh, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these did the priests and the Levites bring up.

King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.

The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.

For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the poles of it above.

The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there they are to this day.

There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

It came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh,

so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh.

Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.

The king turned his face about, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood.

He said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

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 there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

But Yahweh said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart:

nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.

Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

There have I set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;

and he said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keep covenant and lovingkindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;

who have kept with your servant David my father that which you did promise him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.

Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.

Now therefore, God of Israel, Please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.

But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you this day;

that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place whereof you have said, My name shall be there; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place.

Listen you to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling-place; and when you hear, forgive.

If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid on him to cause him to swear, and he come [and] swear before your altar in this house;

then hear you in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house:

then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.

When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you do afflict them:

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting [or] mildew, locust [or] caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there be;

whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, [or] by all your people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:

then hear in heaven, your dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)

that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for your name’s sake

(for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he shall come and pray toward this house;

hear in heaven, your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by my name.

If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;

then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly;

if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name:

then hear you their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling-place, and maintain their cause;

and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them

(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron);

that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.

For you did separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.

It was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven.

He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.

Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us;

that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.

Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day shall require;

that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God; there is none else.

Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh.

Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, two and twenty thousand oxen, and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of Yahweh.

The same day did the king make the middle of the court holy that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings.

So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.

On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.

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Septuaginta I Kings 8

ed. Henry Barclay Swete

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