So do this: Dismiss the kings from their command, and replace them with military commanders.

Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live.<n id="1" /> May you answer your servant&#8217;s prayer for this place.<n id="2" />

Respond to the request of your servant and your people Israel for this place.<n id="1" /> Hear from inside your heavenly dwelling place<n id="2" /> and respond favorably.<n id="3" />p>

Each one also brought to the assigned location his quota of barley and straw for the various horses.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The priests brought the ark of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s covenant to its assigned<n id="1" /> place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, in the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubs.

The cherubs&#8217; wings extended over the place where the ark sat; the cherubs overshadowed the ark and its poles.<n id="1" />

and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the <sc>Lordsc> made with our ancestors<n id="1" /> when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.&#8221;p>

There were six steps leading up to the throne, and the back of it was rounded on top. The throne had two armrests with a statue of a lion standing on each side.<n id="1" />

But he replied, &#8220;I can&#8217;t go back with you<n id="1" /> or eat and drink<n id="2" /> with you in this place.

My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate.<n id="1" /> There I will separate the logs<n id="2" /> and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The time will come when<n id="1" /> the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people<n id="2" /> sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you,<n id="3" /> and turn away from their sin because you punish<n id="4" /> them,

But the prophet said to the king, &#8220;Even if you were to give me half your possessions,<n id="1" /> I could not go with you and eat and drink<n id="2" /> in this place.

You went back and ate and drank in this place, even though he said to you, &#8220;Do not eat or drink there.&#8221;<n id="1" /> Therefore<n id="2" /> your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Say to him, &#8216;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says: &#8220;Haven&#8217;t you committed murder and taken possession of the property of the deceased?&#8221;&#8217; Then say to him, &#8216;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says: &#8220;In the spot where dogs licked up Naboth&#8217;s blood they will also lick up your blood &#8211; yes, yours!&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;p>