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You have kept the promise you made to your servant David, my father. You spoke it with your own mouth and finished it with your hands today.
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"Now, Lord, God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant David, my father. You said, 'If your sons are careful to obey my teachings as you have obeyed, there will always be someone from your family ruling Israel.'
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Now, Lord, God of Israel, please continue to keep that promise you made to your servant.
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"But, God, can you really live here on the earth with people? The sky and the highest place in heaven cannot contain you. Surely this house which I have built cannot contain you.
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But please listen to my prayer and my request, because I am your servant. Lord my God, hear this prayer your servant prays to you.
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Day and night please watch over this Temple where you have said you would be worshiped. Hear the prayer I pray facing this Temple.
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Hear my prayers and the prayers of your people Israel when we pray facing this place. Hear from your home in heaven, and when you hear, forgive us.
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"If someone wrongs another person, he will be brought to the altar in this Temple. If he swears an oath that he is not guilty,
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then hear in heaven. Judge the case, punish the guilty, but declare that the innocent person is not guilty.
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"When your people, the Israelites, sin against you, their enemies will defeat them. But if they come back to you and praise you and pray to you in this Temple,
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then listen from heaven. Forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to them and their ancestors.