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7 And 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 House,
2 so that the priests could not enter into the House of the LORD because the Glory of the LORD had filled the LORD’s House.
3 And when all the children of Israel saw the fire, and the Glory of the LORD come down upon the House, they bowed themselves with their faces to the earth, upon the pavement, and worshipped and praised the LORD, saying, “For He is good, because His mercy endures forever!”
4 Then the king and all the people offered Sacrifices before the LORD.
5 And King Solomon offered a Sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So, the king and all the people dedicated the House of God.
6 And the Priests waited on their offices, and the Levites, with the instruments of music of the LORD which King David had made to “praise the LORD, because His mercy endures forever”. When David praised with them, the priests also blew trumpets opposite them. And all those of Israel stood by.
7 Moreover, Solomon sanctified the middle of the court that was in front of the House of the LORD. For he had prepared Burnt Offerings there, and the fat of the Peace Offerings, because the bronze Altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the Burnt Offering and the Meat Offering and the fat.
8 And Solomon made a seven-day Feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a very great Congregation, from the entrance of Hamath to the River of Egypt.
9 And on the eighth day, they had a solemn assembly. For they had made the dedication of the Altar for seven days, and the Feast for seven days.
10 And the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away into their tents, joyous and with glad hearts, because of the goodness that the LORD had done for David and for Solomon and for Israel, His people.
11 So, Solomon finished the House of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in the House of the LORD. And he prospered in his house.
12 And the LORD appeared to Solomon at night, and said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself, to be a House of Sacrifice.
13 “If I shut the heaven, so that there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people—
14 “if my people among whom My Name is called upon will humble themselves and pray and seek My presence and turn from their wicked ways—then will I hear in Heaven and be merciful to their sin and will heal their land.
15 “Then My Eyes shall be open and My Ears attentive to the prayers in this place.
16 “For I have now chosen and sanctified this House, so that My Name may be there forever. And My Eyes and My Heart shall be there perpetually.
17 “And if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, to do according to all that I have Commanded you, and shall observe My Statutes and My Judgments,
18 “then will I establish the throne of your kingdom, just as I made the Covenant with David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to be ruler in Israel.’
19 “But if you turn away, and forsake My Statutes and My Commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them,
20 “then will I pluck them up out of My land which I have given them. And I will cast this House which I have sanctified for My Name out of My sight and will make it a proverb and common talk among all people.
21 “And this House which is Most High shall be an astonishment to everyone who passes by it, so that he shall say, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this land, and to this House?’
22 “And they shall answer, ‘Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, Who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold of other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them. Therefore, He has brought all this misery upon them.”
8 And after twenty years, once Solomon had built the House of the LORD and his own house,
2 then Solomon built the cities that Huram gave to Solomon and had the children of Israel live there.
3 And Solomon went to Hamath Zobah and overcame it.
4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and repaired all the storage cities which he built in Hamath.
5 And he built Beth Horon the upper, and Beth Horon the lower, cities defensed with walls, gates and bars,
6 also Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and every pleasant place that Solomon had a mind to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.
7 All the people who were left to the Hittites and the Amorites and Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites—who were not of Israel
8 but of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel had not consumed—those Solomon made tributaries until this day.
9 But Solomon made no children of Israel servants for his work. For they were men of war, and his chief princes, and the captains of his chariots and of his horsemen.
10 So, these were the chief of the officers whom Solomon had, two hundred fifty who bore rule over the people.
11 Then, Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David, into the house that he had built for her. For he said, “My wife shall not dwell in the house of David, king of Israel. For it is holy, because the Ark of the LORD came to it.”
12 Then Solomon offered Burnt Offerings to the LORD on the Altar of the LORD which he had built in front of the porch,
13 to offer according to the commandment of Moses every day, on the Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the solemn Feasts, three times in the year: at the Feast of the Unleavened Bread, and at the Feast of the Weeks, and at the Feast of the Tabernacles.
14 And he set the divisions of the priests to their offices, according to the order of David his father and the Levites in their watches, to praise and minister before the priests every day and the gatekeepers by their divisions, at every gate. For so was the commandment of David, the man of God.
15 And they did not decline from the commandment of the king concerning the priests and the Levites, touching all things and touching the treasures.
16 Now, Solomon had made provision for all the work, from the day of the foundation of the House of the LORD until it was finished. The House of the LORD was perfect.
17 Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and to Eloth by the Seaside, in the land of Edom.
18 And by the hands of his servants, Huram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of the sea. And they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir and brought four hundred fifty talents of gold from there, and brought them to King Solomon.
9 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came with a very great train, and camels that bore sweet odors and much gold and precious stones, to Jerusalem to test Solomon with hard questions. And when she came to Solomon, she spoke with him of all that was in her heart.
2 And Solomon answered all her questions. And there was nothing hidden from Solomon which he did not tell her.
3 Then the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, and the House that he had built,
4 and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the order of his waiters, and their apparel, and his butlers, and their apparel, and his Burnt Offerings which he offered in the House of the LORD. And she was greatly astonished.
5 And she said to the king, “It was a true word which I heard in my own land of your sayings, and of your wisdom!
6 “However, I did not believe their report until I came and my eyes had seen it. And behold, one half of your great wisdom was not told to me! You exceed the fame that I heard!
7 “Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants who stand before you always and hear your wisdom.
8 “Blessed be the LORD your God! Who loved you, setting you on His throne as king in the place of the LORD your God! Because your God loves Israel, to establish it forever, He has therefore made you king over them, to execute judgments and justice.”
9 Then she gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and an abundance of sweet odors, and precious stones. Never were there such sweet odors as the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
10 And also the servants of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought Algummim wood and precious stones.
11 And the king made from the Algummim wood stairs in the House of the LORD, and in the king’s house, and harps and viols for singers. And there was no such thing seen before in the land of Judah.
12 And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba every pleasant thing that she asked, more than that which she had brought to the king. So she returned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
13 Also, the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents of gold,
14 besides that which traders and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia, and the princes of the country, brought gold and silver to Solomon.
15 And King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold. Six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one large shield.
16 And for three hundred shields of beaten gold, three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the wood of Lebanon.
17 And the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.
18 And the throne had six steps, with a footstool of gold fastened to the throne and supports on either side on the place of the seats, and two lions standing by the supports.
19 And twelve lions stood there on the six steps on either side. There was not any like it made in any kingdom.
20 And all King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold. And all the vessels of the house of the wood of Lebanon were of pure gold; for silver was considered nothing special in the days of Solomon.
21 For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram. Every three years the ships of Tarshish came and brought gold and silver, ivory, and apes and peacocks.
22 So, King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the Earth in riches and wisdom.
23 And all the kings of the Earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom that God had put in his heart.
24 And every man brought his present: vessels of silver and vessels of gold and clothing, armor, sweet odors, horses and mules, year after year.
25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls of horses, and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.
26 And he reigned over all the kings, from the River to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt.
27 And the king gave silver in Jerusalem as stones and gave cedar trees as the wild fig trees (which are abundant in the plain).
28 And they brought horses out of Egypt to Solomon, and out of all lands.
29 Concerning the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the Book of Nathan the Prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the Seer against Jeroboam, the son of Nebat?
30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem, over all Israel, for forty years.
31 And Solomon slept with his fathers. And they buried him in the city of David, his father. And Rehoboam, his son, reigned in his place.
11 And a certain man was sick - Lazarus of Bethany (the town of Mary and her sister Martha).
2 And this was that same Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
3 Therefore, the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.”
4 When Jesus heard it, He said, “This sickness does not end in death, but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God might be glorified by it.”
5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 And after He had heard that he was sick, He still stayed two days in the same place where He was.
7 Then after that, He said to His disciples, “Let us go into Judea again.”
8 The disciples said to Him, “Master, the Jews sought to stone You recently, and yet You go there again?”
9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If someone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
10 “But if someone walks in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.”
11 He spoke these things. And afterward, He said to them, “Our friend Lazarus sleeps. But I go to wake him up.”
12 Then His disciples said, “Lord, if he sleeps, he shall heal.”
13 However, Jesus spoke of his death. But they thought that He had spoken of the natural sleep.
14 Then Jesus said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead.
15 “And I am glad, for your sakes, that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
16 Then said Thomas (who is called Didymus) to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with Him.”
17 Then Jesus came and found that he had already been in the grave four days.
18 (Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away.)
19 And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them for their brother.
20 Then Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet Him. But Mary still sat in the house.
21 Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 “But now, I also know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”
23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother shall rise again.”
24 “Martha said to Him, “I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection, at the last day.”
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
26 “And whoever lives, and believes in Me, shall never die. Do you believe this?”
27 She said to Him, “Yes, Lord. I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, the One coming into the world.”
28 And when she had said this, she went her way, and secretly called Mary, her sister, saying, “The Master has come, and calls for you.”
29 And when she heard it, she arose quickly, and came to Him.
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