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Ethan: Welcome To Immerse: The
Daily Bible Reading Experience.

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Day 200 and 16

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then Solomon stood before the
altar of the Lord in front of

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the entire community of Israel.

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He lifted his hands toward heaven
and he prayed, oh Lord God of Israel.

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There is no God like you in all of
heaven above or on the earth below.

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You keep your covenant and show
unfailing love to all who walk

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before you in wholehearted devotion.

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You have kept your promise to
your servant, David, my father.

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You made that promise with your
own mouth and with your own hands.

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You have fulfilled it today.

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And now, oh Lord God of Israel, carry
out the additional promise you made

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to your servant David, my father.

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For you said to him, if your descendants
guard their behavior and faithfully

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follow me as you have done, one of
them will always sit on the throne

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of Israel now, oh God of Israel.

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Fulfill this promise to your
servant, David, my father.

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But will God really live on earth?

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Why even the highest
heavens cannot contain you?

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How much less this temple I have built?

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Nevertheless, listen to
my prayer and my plea.

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Oh Lord, my God.

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Hear the cry and the prayer that
your servant is making to you today.

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May you watch over this temple
night and day, this place where you

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have said My name will be there.

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May you always hear the prayers
I make toward this place.

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May you hear the humble and earnest
requests from me and your people

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Israel, when we pray toward this place.

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Yes, hear us from heaven where you
live and when you hear forgive.

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If someone wrongs another person and is
required to take an oath of innocence in

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front of your altar in this temple, then
hear from heaven and judge between your

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servants, the accuser, and the accused.

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Punish the guilty as they deserve.

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Acquit the innocent
because of their innocence.

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If your people, Israel are defeated
by their enemies because they have

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sinned against you, and if they turn
to you and acknowledge your name and

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pray to you here in this temple, then
hear from heaven and forgive the sin

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of your people Israel, and return them
to this land you gave their ancestors.

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If the skies are shut up and there
is no rain, because your people have

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sinned against you, and if they pray
toward this temple and acknowledge

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your name and turn from their sins
because you have punished them, then

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hear from heaven and forgive the sins
of your servants, your people, Israel.

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Teach them to follow the right
path and send rain on your land

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that you have given to your people
as their special possession.

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If there is a famine in the land or a
plague or crop disease or attacks of

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locusts or caterpillars, or if your
people's enemies are in the land,

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besieging their towns, whatever disaster
or disease there is, and if your people

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Israel pray about their troubles raising
their hands toward this temple, then hear

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from heaven where you live and forgive.

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Give your people what their
actions deserve for you alone.

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Know each human heart, then they
will fear you as long as they live in

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the land you gave to our ancestors.

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In the future.

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Foreigners who do not belong to your
people, Israel will hear of you.

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They will come from distant lands
because of your name, for they will

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hear of your great name and your
strong hand and your powerful arm.

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And when they pray toward this temple,
then hear from heaven where you

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live and grant what they ask of you.

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In this way, all the people of
the earth will come to know and

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fear you, just as your own people.

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Israel do.

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They too will know that this temple
I have built honors your name.

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If your people go out where you send
them to fight their enemies, and if

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they pray to the Lord by turning toward
this city you have chosen, and toward

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this temple I have built to honor
your name, then hear their prayers

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from heaven and uphold their cause.

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If they sin against you and who has
never sinned, you might become angry

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with them and let their enemies
conquer them and take them captive

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to their land far away or near.

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But in that land of exile, they might
turn to you in repentance and pray.

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We have sinned, done,
evil and acted wickedly.

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If they turn to you with their whole
heart and soul in the land of their

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enemies, and pray toward the land you
gave to their ancestors toward this

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city you have chosen and toward this
temple I have built to honor your name.

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Then hear their prayers and their
petition from heaven where you

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live and uphold their cause.

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Forgive your people who
have sinned against you.

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Forgive all the offenses they
have committed against you.

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Make their captors merciful to
them for they are your people.

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Your special possession, whom you brought
out of the iron smelting furnace of Egypt.

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May your eyes be open to my requests
and to the requests of your people.

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Israel.

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May you hear and answer them whenever
they cry out to you for when you

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brought our ancestors out of Egypt.

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Oh, sovereign Lord.

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You told your servant Moses, that you
had set Israel apart from all the nations

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of the earth to be your own special
possession when Solomon finished making

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these prayers and petitions to the Lord.

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He stood up in front of the altar of
the Lord where he had been kneeling

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with his hands raised toward heaven.

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He stood and in a loud voice, blessed
the entire congregation of Israel.

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Praise the Lord who has
given rest to his people.

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Israel, just as he promised,
not one word has failed.

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Of all the wonderful promises he
gave through his servant Moses.

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May the Lord our God be with us
as he was with our ancestors.

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May he never leave us or abandon us.

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May he give us the desire to do
his will in everything and to obey

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all the commands, decrees, and
regulations that he gave our ancestors.

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And may these words that I have
prayed in the presence of the Lord be

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before him constantly day and night.

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So that the Lord, our God may give
justice to me and to his people, Israel,

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according to each day's needs, then people
all over the earth will know that the

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Lord alone is God and there is no other.

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And may you be com completely
faithful to the Lord our God.

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May you always obey his decrees and
commands just as you are doing today.

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Then the king and all Israel with
him offered sacrifices to the Lord.

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Solomon offered to the Lord a
peace offering of 22,000 cattle

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and 120,000 sheep and goats.

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And so the king and all the people of
Israel dedicated the temple of the Lord.

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That same day, the king consecrated
the central area of the courtyard

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in front of the Lord's temple.

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He offered burnt offerings, grain
offerings, and the fat of peace offerings

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there because the bronze altar in
the Lord's presence was too small to

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hold all the burnt offerings, grain
offerings, and the fat of the peace

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offerings, then Solomon and all Israel
celebrated the festival of shelters

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in the presence of the Lord our God.

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A large congregation had gathered from
as far away as Libo Hamoth in the north

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and the brook of Egypt in the south.

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The celebration went on for 14
days, in all seven days for the

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dedication of the altar, and seven
days for the festival of shelters.

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After the festival was over,
Solomon sent the people home.

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They blessed the king and went to
their homes, joyful and glad because

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the Lord had been good to his servant
David and to his people Israel.

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So Solomon finished building the temple
of the Lord as well as the royal palace.

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He completed everything
he had planned to do.

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Then the Lord appeared to Solomon a second
time as he had done before at Gibeon.

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The Lord said to him, I have heard
your prayer and your petition.

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I have set this temple apart to be holy.

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This place you have built where
my name will be honored forever.

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I will always watch over it.

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For it is dear to my heart.

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As for you, if you will follow
me with integrity and godliness.

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As David, your father did obeying all
my commands, decrees and regulations.

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Then I will establish the throne of
your dynasty over Israel forever.

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For I made this promise
to your father David.

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One of your descendants will
always sit on the throne of Israel.

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But if you or your descendants
abandon me and disobey the commands

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and decrees I have given you, and
if you serve and worship other

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gods, then I will uproot Israel from
this land that I have given them.

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I will reject this temple that I
have made holy to honor my name.

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I will make Israel an object of
mockery and ridicule among the nations.

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And though this temple is impressive,
now all who pass by will be appalled

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and will gasp in horror, they will
ask, why did the Lord do such terrible

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things to this land and to this temple?

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And the answer will be, Because
his people abandoned the Lord their

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God, who brought their ancestors out
of Egypt, and they worshiped other

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gods instead and bowed down to them.

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That is why the Lord has brought
all these disasters on them.

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This concludes today's
immerse reading experience.

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Thank you for joining us.