and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

Now, our God, we give thanks to you and praise your majestic name!

Now my father David had a strong desire to build a temple to honor the Lord God of Israel.

When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon, she came to challenge him with difficult questions.

(1:18) Solomon ordered a temple to be built to honor the Lord, as well as a royal palace for himself.

Now my father David had a strong desire to build a temple to honor the Lord God of Israel.

Deliver us, O Lord, our God! Gather us from among the nations! Then we will give thanks to your holy name, and boast about your praiseworthy deeds.

The tribes go up there, the tribes of the Lord, where it is required that Israel give thanks to the name of the Lord.

All the people of the land will bury them, and it will be a memorial for them on the day I magnify myself, declares the sovereign Lord.

They told him, “Your subjects have come from a very distant land because of the reputation of the Lord your God, for we have heard the news about all he did in Egypt

Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the Lord.

Say this prayer: “Deliver us, O God who delivers us! Gather us! Rescue us from the nations! Then we will give thanks to your holy name, and boast about your praiseworthy deeds.”

David said to Solomon: “My son, I really wanted to build a temple to honor the Lord my God.

O Lord our God, all this wealth, which we have collected to build a temple for you to honor your holy name, comes from you; it all belongs to you.

He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I would be discredited.

Evergreens will grow in place of thorn bushes, firs will grow in place of nettles; they will be a monument to the Lord, a permanent reminder that will remain.

I will prepare for them a healthy planting. They will no longer be victims of famine in the land and will no longer bear the insults of the nations.

“Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob, and I will have mercy on the entire house of Israel. I will be zealous for my holy name.

(The Danites failed to conquer their territory, so they went up and fought with Leshem and captured it. They put the sword to it, took possession of it, and lived in it. They renamed it Dan after their ancestor.)