1 Kings 8:6-7
King James Version
6 And the priests brought in
the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place,
into the oracle of the house,
to the most holy place,
even under the wings of the cherubims.
7 For the cherubims spread forth their two wings
over the place of the ark,
and the cherubims covered the ark
and the staves thereof above.
After the HOUSE of GOD was built, Solomon had the ark of the covenant brought into the holy place built for it.
Here's what the ark contained:
1 Kings 8:9
King James Version
9 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone,
which Moses put there at Horeb,
when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel,
when they came out of the land of Egypt.
After the priests came out of the holy place, the GLORY of GOD filled the HOUSE of the LORD.
1 Kings 8:10-12
King James Version
10 And it came to pass,
when the priests were come out of the holy place,
that the cloud filled the house of the Lord,
11 So that the priests could not stand to minister
because of the cloud:
for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.
12 Then spake Solomon,
The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
Then Solomon prays to GOD:
1 Kings 8:22
King James Version
22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord
in the presence of all the congregation of Israel,
and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
1 Kings 8:23-53
King James Version
23 And he said,
Lord God of Israel,
there is no God like thee,
in heaven above, or on earth beneath,
who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants
that walk before thee with all their heart:
24 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father
that thou promisedst him:
thou spakest also with thy mouth,
and hast fulfilled it with thine hand,
as it is this day.
25 Therefore now,
Lord God of Israel,
keep with thy servant David my father
that thou promisedst him, saying,
There shall not fail thee a man in my sight
to sit on the throne of Israel;
so that thy children take heed to their way,
that they walk before me
as thou hast walked before me.
26 And now,
O God of Israel,
let thy word, I pray thee, be verified,
which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth?
behold,
the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee;
how much less this house that I have builded?
28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant,
and to his supplication,
O Lord my God,
to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer,
which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
29 That thine eyes
may be open toward this house night and day,
even toward the place of which thou hast said,
My name shall be there:
that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer
which thy servant shall make toward this place.
30 And hearken thou
to the supplication of thy servant,
and of thy people Israel,
when they shall pray toward this place:
and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place:
and when thou hearest,
forgive.
31 If any man trespass against his neighbour,
and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear,
and the oath come before thine altar in this house:
32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do,
and judge thy servants,
condemning the wicked,
to bring his way upon his head;
and justifying the righteous,
to give him according to his righteousness.
33 When thy people Israel
be smitten down before the enemy,
because they have sinned against thee,
and shall turn again to thee,
and confess thy name,
and pray,
and make supplication unto thee in this house:
34 Then hear thou in heaven,
and forgive the sin of thy people Israel,
and bring them again unto the land
which thou gavest unto their fathers.
35 When heaven is shut up,
and there is no rain,
because they have sinned against thee;
if they pray toward this place,
and confess thy name,
and turn from their sin,
when thou afflictest them:
36 Then hear thou in heaven,
and forgive the sin of thy servants,
and of thy people Israel,
that thou teach them the good way
wherein they should walk,
and give rain upon thy land,
which thou hast given to thy people
for an inheritance.
37 If there be in the land famine,
if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust,
or if there be caterpiller;
if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities;
whatsoever plague,
whatsoever sickness there be;
38 What prayer and supplication soever
be made by any man,
or by all thy people Israel,
which shall know every man
the plague of his own heart,
and spread forth his hands toward this house:
39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place,
and forgive, and do,
and give to every man according to his ways,
whose heart thou knowest;
(for thou, even thou only,
knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live
in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
41 Moreover concerning a stranger,
that is not of thy people Israel,
but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;
42 (For they shall hear of thy great name,
and of thy strong hand,
and of thy stretched out arm;)
when he shall come and pray toward this house;
43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place,
and do according to all
that the stranger calleth to thee for:
that all people of the earth may know thy name,
to fear thee,
as do thy people Israel;
and that they may know that this house,
which I have builded,
is called by thy name.
44 If thy people go out to battle against their enemy,
whithersoever thou shalt send them,
and shall pray unto the Lord toward the city
which thou hast chosen,
and toward the house that I have built for thy name:
45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer
and their supplication,
and maintain their cause.
46 If they sin against thee,
(for there is no man that sinneth not,)
and thou be angry with them,
and deliver them to the enemy,
so that they carry them away
captives unto the land of the enemy,
far or near;
47 Yet if they shall bethink themselves
in the land whither they were carried captives,
and repent,
and make supplication unto thee
in the land of them that carried them captives,
saying,
We have sinned,
and have done perversely,
we have committed wickedness;
48 And so return unto thee with all their heart,
and with all their soul,
in the land of their enemies,
which led them away captive,
and pray unto thee toward their land,
which thou gavest unto their fathers,
the city which thou hast chosen,
and the house which I have built for thy name:
49 Then hear thou their prayer
and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place,
and maintain their cause,
50 And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee,
and all their transgressions
wherein they have transgressed against thee,
and give them compassion
before them who carried them captive,
that they may have compassion on them:
51 For they be thy people,
and thine inheritance,
which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt,
from the midst of the furnace of iron:
52 That thine eyes may be open
unto the supplication of thy servant,
and unto the supplication of thy people Israel,
to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.
53 For thou didst separate them
from among all the people of the earth,
to be thine inheritance,
as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant,
when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt,
O Lord God.
What did GOD do?
He answers Solomon's prayer and supplication.
That's for the next page.
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