Quotes About Divine

“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ëI am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.í”

So Gad went and said to David, “This is what the LORD says: ëYou must choose

between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.í Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”

So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.

Now Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.

Then the LORD spoke to the angel, who put his sword back into its sheath.

At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.

but David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,

Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, and Peullethai the eighth. For God had blessed Obed-edom.

Consider now that the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong and do it.”

“All this,” said David, “all the details of this plan, the LORD has made clear to me in writing by His hand upon me.”

Both riches and honor come from You, and You are the ruler over all. In Your hands are power and might to exalt and give strength to all.

The LORD highly exalted Solomon in the sight of all Israel and bestowed on him royal majesty such as had not been bestowed on any king in Israel before him.

Now Solomon son of David established himself securely over his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him and highly exalted him.

That night God appeared to Solomon and said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”

therefore wisdom and knowledge have been granted to you. And I will also give you riches and wealth and honor unlike anything given to the kings before you or after you.”

Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.

For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.

so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.

Then Solomon declared: “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud;

ëSince the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over My people Israel.

But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.í