10 The prince shall then be in their midst. When they go in, he shall go in; and when they go out, he shall go out.

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When I remember these things,
(A)I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go with the multitude;
(B)I went with them to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise,
With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.

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22 So they ate and drank before the Lord with great gladness on that day. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and (A)anointed him before the Lord to be the leader, and Zadok to be priest.

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20 Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless the Lord your God.” So all the assembly blessed the Lord God of their fathers, and bowed their heads and prostrated themselves before the Lord and the king.

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The Loveless Church

“To the [a]angel of the church of Ephesus write,

‘These things says (A)He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, (B)who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands:

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  1. Revelation 2:1 Or messenger

Our Compassionate High Priest

14 Seeing then that we have a great (A)High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, (B)let us hold fast our confession. 15 For (C)we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but (D)was in all points tempted as we are, (E)yet without sin. 16 (F)Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

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but Christ as (A)a Son over His own house, (B)whose house we are (C)if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope [a]firm to the end.

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  1. Hebrews 3:6 NU omits firm to the end

20 (A)teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am (B)with you always, even to the end of the age.” [a]Amen.

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  1. Matthew 28:20 NU omits Amen.

20 For where two or three are gathered (A)together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”

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The Joy of Going to the House of the Lord

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

122 I was glad when they said to me,
(A)“Let us go into the house of the Lord.”
Our feet have been standing
Within your gates, O Jerusalem!

Jerusalem is built
As a city that is (B)compact together,
(C)Where the tribes go up,
The tribes of the Lord,
[a]To (D)the Testimony of Israel,
To give thanks to the name of the Lord.

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  1. Psalm 122:4 Or As a testimony to

So they read distinctly from the book, in the Law of God; and they gave the sense, and helped them to understand the reading.

(A)And Nehemiah, who was the [a]governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, (B)“This day is holy to the Lord your God; (C)do not mourn nor weep.” For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the Law.

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  1. Nehemiah 8:9 Heb. Tirshatha

30 The king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem—the priests and the Levites, and all the people, great and small. And he (A)read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which had been found in the house of the Lord. 31 Then the king (B)stood in (C)his place and made a (D)covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

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28 So all the assembly worshiped, the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded; all this continued until the burnt offering was finished. 29 And when they had finished offering, (A)the king and all who were present with him bowed and worshiped.

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27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat in front of them, to go back to Jerusalem with joy, for the Lord had (A)made them rejoice over their enemies. 28 So they came to Jerusalem, with stringed instruments and harps and trumpets, to the house of the Lord.

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(A)Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the Lord. King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand bulls and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

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I have surely built You an exalted house,
And (A)a place for You to dwell in forever.”

Solomon’s Speech upon Completion of the Work(B)

Then the king turned around and (C)blessed the whole assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel was standing. And he said: “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who has fulfilled with His hands what He spoke with His mouth to my father David, (D)saying,

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14 Then David (A)danced[a] before the Lord with all his might; and David was wearing (B)a linen ephod. 15 (C)So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.

16 Now as the ark of the Lord came into the City of David, (D)Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window and saw King David leaping and whirling before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart. 17 So (E)they brought the ark of the Lord, and set it in (F)its place in the midst of the tabernacle that David had erected for it. Then David (G)offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. 18 And when David had finished offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, (H)he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts. 19 (I)Then he distributed among all the people, among the whole multitude of Israel, both the women and the men, to everyone a loaf of bread, a piece of meat, and a cake of raisins. So all the people departed, everyone to his house.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 6:14 whirled about

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