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And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loudvoice,saying,
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Blessed be the LORD, that hath givenrest unto his peopleIsrael, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed[a]oneword of all his goodpromise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
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The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
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That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
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And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplicationbefore the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our Godday and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his peopleIsrael at all times*, as the matter shall require:
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That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.
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Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
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And the king, and all Israel with him, offeredsacrificebefore the LORD.
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And Solomonoffered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD,two and twentythousandoxen, and an hundred and twentythousandsheep. So the king and all the children of Israeldedicated the house of the LORD.
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The same day did the kinghallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasenaltar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
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And at that timeSolomonheld a feast, and all Israel with him, a greatcongregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt,before the LORD our God,sevendays and sevendays, even fourteen*days.