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So Solomon and all the Congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for there was the Tabernacle of the Congregation of God, which Moses the seruant of the LORD had made in the wildernesse.

1611 marginal note1.King. 3.4. 1.Chro. 16.39. and 21.29.

Giue mee now wisedome and knowledge, that I may goe out and come in before this people. For who can iudge this thy people, that is so great?

1611 marginal note1.King. 3.11,12. num. 27.17.

And they fetcht vp and brought foorth out of Egypt, a charet for sixe hundred shekels of siluer, and an horse for an hundred and fiftie: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their meanes.

1611 marginal noteHeb. by their hand.

¶ And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou diddest deale with Dauid my father, and diddest send him Cedars to builde him an house to dwell therein, euen so deale with me.

1611 marginal noteOr, Hiram, 1.King. 5.1.

So that the Priests could not stand to minister, by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.

Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keepe with thy seruant Dauid my father, that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not faile thee a man in my sight, to sit vpon the throne of Israel: yet so, that thy children take heede to their way, to walke in my Law, as thou hast walked before me.

1611 marginal noteHeb. there shall not a man be cut off.

1611 marginal note2.Sam. 7.12. 1.king. 2.4. and 6.12.

1611 marginal notePsal. 132.12.

That they may feare thee, to walke in thy waies so long as they liue in the land which thou gauest vnto our fathers.

1611 marginal noteHebr. all the dayes which.

1611 marginal noteHebr. vpon the face of the land.

And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twentie and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twentie thousand sheepe. So the King and all the people, dedicated the house of God.

And this house which is high, shall be an astonishment to euery one that passeth by it; so that hee shall say; Why hath the LORD done thus vnto this land, and vnto this house?

1611 marginal noteDeut. 29.24. iere. 22.8,9.

¶ And he appointed, according to the order of Dauid his father, the courses of the Priests to their seruice, and the Leuites to their charges, to praise and minister before the Priests, as the duety of euery day required: the porters also by their courses, at euery gate: for so had Dauid the man of God commanded.

1611 marginal noteHeb. so was the commandement of Dauid the man of God.

1611 marginal note1.Chron. 24.1.

1611 marginal note1.Chron. 9.17.