Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹²⁹ Your testimonies are wonderful [far exceeding anything conceived by man]; therefore my [penitent] self keeps them [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying them].

¹³⁰ The entrance and unfolding of Your words give light; their unfolding gives understanding (discernment and comprehension) to the simple.

¹³¹ I opened my mouth and panted [with eager desire], for I longed for Your commandments.

¹³² Look upon me, be merciful unto me, and show me favor, as is Your way to those who love Your name.

¹³³ Establish my steps and direct them by [means of] Your word; let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

¹³⁴ Deliver me from the oppression of man; so will I keep Your precepts [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying them].^(A)

¹³⁵ Make Your face shine [with pleasure] upon Your servant, and teach me Your statutes.^(B)

¹³⁶ Streams of water run down my eyes, because men do not keep Your law [they hear it not, nor receive it, love it, or obey it].

³⁸ So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites [the king’s bodyguards] went down and caused Solomon to ride upon King David’s mule and brought him to Gihon.

³⁹ Zadok the priest took a horn of oil out of the tent and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet and all the people said, Long live King Solomon!

⁴⁰ All the people followed him; they played on pipes and rejoiced greatly, so that the earth [resounded] with the joyful sound.

⁴¹ And Adonijah and all the guests with him heard it as they finished feasting. When Joab heard the trumpet sound, he said, What does this uproar in the city mean?

⁴² While he was still speaking, behold, Jonathan son of Abiathar the priest came. And Adonijah said, Come in, for you are a trustworthy man and bring good news.

⁴³ Jonathan replied, Adonijah, truly our lord King David has made Solomon king!

⁴⁴ The king has sent him with Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king’s mule.

⁴⁵ Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon; they have come up from there rejoicing, so the city resounds. This is the noise you heard.

⁴⁶ Solomon sits on the royal throne.

⁴⁷ Moreover, the king’s servants came to congratulate our lord King David, saying, May God make the name of Solomon better than your name and make his throne greater than your throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed

⁴⁸ And said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, Who has granted me to see one of my offspring sitting on my throne this day.

⁴⁴ Our forefathers had the tent (tabernacle) of witness in the wilderness, even as He Who directed Moses to make it had ordered, according to the pattern and model he had seen.^(A)

⁴⁵ Our forefathers in turn brought it [this tent of witness] in [with them into the land] with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations which God drove out before the face of our forefathers. [So it remained here] until the time of David,^(B)

⁴⁶ Who found grace (favor and spiritual blessing) in the sight of God and prayed that he might be allowed to find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.^(C)

⁴⁷ But it was Solomon who built a house for Him.^(D)

⁴⁸ However, the Most High does not dwell in houses and temples made with hands; as the prophet says,^(E)

⁴⁹ Heaven [is] My throne, and earth the footstool for My feet. What [kind of] house can you build for Me, says the Lord, or what is the place in which I can rest?

⁵⁰ Was it not My hand that made all these things?^(F)

⁵¹ You stubborn and stiff-necked people, still heathen and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are always ^[a]actively resisting the Holy Spirit. As your forefathers [were], so you [are and so you do]!^(G)

⁵² Which of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? And they slew those who proclaimed beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, Whom you now have betrayed and murdered—

⁵³ You who received the Law as it was ordained and set in order and delivered by angels, and [yet] you did not obey it!