Quotes About Faith

then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.

Now, my God, may Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

O LORD God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David.”

Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.

On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the good things that the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel.

the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,

and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.

And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ëWhy has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?í

Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own palace,

Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.

He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath.

At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD he had built in front of the portico.

He observed the daily requirement for offerings according to the commandment of Moses for Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual appointed feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.

So to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David.

But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God:

Rehoboam continued to live in Jerusalem, and he built up cities for defense in Judah.

He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam,

Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,

Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, the fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.

Moreover, the priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel stood with Rehoboam.