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2 Chronicles 6:11 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" There I have set the ark, in which is the LORD’s covenant, which he made with the children of Israel.” "
2 Chronicles 6:11
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9 nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’
10 “The LORD has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
11 There I have set the ark, in which is the LORD’s covenant, which he made with the children of Israel.”
12 He stood before the LORD’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands
13 (for Solomon had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the middle of the court; and he stood on it, and knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven).
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2 Chronicles 6:1
"Then Solomon said, “The LORD has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness."
2 Chronicles 6:2
"But I have built you a house and home, a place for you to dwell in forever.”"
2 Chronicles 6:3
"The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood."
2 Chronicles 6:4
"He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying,"
2 Chronicles 6:5
"‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there, and I chose no man to be prince over my people Israel;"
2 Chronicles 6:6
"but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’"
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