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Bagian: Salomo memindahkan peti perjanjian ke rumah TUHAN

1 Kemudian Salomo mengundang para tua-tua Israel, semua pemimpin suku, dan kepala kaum untuk datang berkumpul di Yerusalem untuk membicarakan pemindahan peti perjanjian TUHAN dari bagian lama Yerusalem, yang disebut Sion dan Kota Daud, ke rumah TUHAN. 2 Lalu, pada waktu perayaan Hari Raya Pondok di bulan Oktober seluruh rakyat Israel berkumpul di Yerusalem. 3 Setelah semua tua-tua bangsa Israel hadir, para imam mengangkat peti perjanjian TUHAN, 4 dibantu oleh orang-orang Lewi yang mengangkut kemah pertemuan dan semua barang kudus di dalam kemah itu. 5 Raja Salomo dan seluruh umat Israel hadir mengiringi pemindahan peti perjanjian. Mereka mempersembahkan domba dan sapi yang tidak terhitung banyaknya. 6 Para imam membawa masuk peti perjanjian ke tempat yang sudah disiapkan untuknya, yaitu ruang mahakudus di bagian paling dalam rumah TUHAN, dan meletakkannya di bawah sayap kedua bentuk malaikat penjaga. 7 Sayap-sayap malaikat penjaga itu terbentang penuh sehingga dapat menaungi peti perjanjian beserta tongkat-tongkat pengusungnya. 8 Tongkat pengusung itu sangat panjang sehingga ujung-ujungnya terlihat dari ruang kudus, tetapi tidak terlihat dari luar rumah TUHAN. Tongkat pengusung itu masih terpasang pada peti perjanjian sampai saat kitab ini ditulis. 9 Di dalam peti perjanjian TUHAN hanya ada dua lempengan batu yang dahulu Musa letakkan di dalamnya. Kedua lempengan itu bertuliskan perjanjian yang TUHAN buat dengan bangsa Israel di gunung Sinai, setelah mereka keluar dari Mesir. 10 Ketika para imam meninggalkan ruang kudus, tiba-tiba awan memenuhi rumah TUHAN, 11 yaitu awan yang menandakan kemuliaan TUHAN hadir, sehingga para imam tidak sanggup melanjutkan tugas pelayanan di dalam rumah TUHAN.

Bagian: Salomo membuka acara peresmian rumah TUHAN

12 Kemudian Salomo berdoa, “Ya TUHAN, Engkau pernah mengatakan bahwa di kemah-Mu, Engkau hadir di balik awan tebal. 13 Sekarang aku sudah membangun rumah yang mulia bagi-Mu supaya Engkau berdiam di sini untuk selamanya.” 14 Kemudian raja berbalik menghadap rakyat Israel yang sedang berdiri di tempat itu, lalu mengucapkan doa berkat atas mereka. 15 Salomo berkata, “Terpujilah TUHAN, Allah Israel, yang sudah memenuhi janji-Nya kepada ayahku, Daud. 16 Dalam janji-Nya itu, TUHAN berkata, ‘Sejak Aku membawa umat-Ku Israel keluar dari Mesir sampai mereka sudah menetap di negeri Kanaan, Aku tidak pernah memilih satu pun kota di daerah suku-suku Israel untuk mendirikan rumah sebagai tempat menyembah Aku. Akan tetapi, Aku memilih Daud untuk memimpin umat-Ku Israel.’ 17 Sesungguhnya, ayahku Daud sangat ingin mendirikan sebuah rumah untuk menghormati TUHAN, Allah Israel. 18 Namun, TUHAN berkata kepadanya, ‘Niat dan rencanamu itu baik, 19 tetapi bukan kamu yang akan membangun rumah itu, melainkan anak kandungmu yang akan lahir kelak. Dialah yang akan membangun rumah bagi kehormatan-Ku.’ 20 Dan sekarang, TUHAN sudah menepati janji-Nya dengan membuat saya menjadi raja menggantikan ayah saya untuk memimpin kerajaan Israel, dan saya sudah membangun rumah ini bagi TUHAN, Allah Israel. Semua terjadi sesuai janji-Nya. 21 Di dalam rumah ini saya sudah menyiapkan sebuah ruangan untuk menaruh peti yang berisi dua lempengan batu bertuliskan perjanjian yang TUHAN buat dengan nenek moyang kita ketika Dia membawa mereka keluar dari Mesir.”

Bagian: Doa peresmian Salomo

22 Kemudian raja Salomo berbalik lagi menghadap mezbah TUHAN, dan di depan seluruh rakyat Israel dia menengadahkan tangannya ke langit. 23 Dia berdoa, “Ya TUHAN, Allah Israel, selain Engkau tidak ada yang ilahi, baik di langit maupun di bumi. Engkau memegang janji-Mu dengan selalu setia mengasihi kami semua hamba-hamba-Mu yang menaati Engkau dengan segenap hati. 24 Engkau menepati janji-Mu kepada hamba-Mu Daud, ayahku. Hari ini Engkau sudah menggenapi perkataan-Mu itu. 25 Dahulu Engkau berjanji kepada ayahku, ‘Anak-cucumu akan terus memerintah sebagai raja Israel turun temurun, asalkan mereka selalu hidup menaati Aku sepertimu.’ Karena itu, ya TUHAN, Allah Israel, tetaplah memegang janji-Mu itu 26 dan genapilah apa yang Engkau ucapkan kepada hamba-Mu, Daud. 27 “Tetapi, ya Allah, aku tahu bahwa Engkau terlalu agung untuk tinggal di rumah yang aku bangun ini. Jangankan bumi, seluruh tingkat surga dan langit pun tidak cukup untuk menjadi tempat kediaman-Mu! 28 Meski begitu, mohon dengarlah doa hamba-Mu ini, permintaan yang aku serukan kepada-Mu hari ini, ya TUHAN Allahku. 29 Kiranya Engkau selalu memperhatikan rumah ini, yang Engkau janjikan untuk menjadi tempat kehadiran-Mu, dan selalu mendengar doa-doa yang dipanjatkan hamba-Mu dengan menghadap ke rumah ini. 30 Baik aku maupun rakyat Israel, ketika kami berdoa dengan menghadap ke rumah ini, kiranya Engkau mendengar doa kami dari rumah-Mu di surga dan mengampuni dosa-dosa kami. 31 “Ketika ada orang berselisih karena yang satu berbuat salah terhadap yang lain, lalu dia diminta bersumpah di hadapan mezbah-Mu di rumah ini, dengan mengatakan, ‘Jika aku bersalah, biarlah TUHAN menghukumku,’ 32 maka, ya TUHAN, dengarlah dari surga perkara-perkara para hamba-Mu itu, dan berilah keadilan. Nyatakanlah siapa yang benar dan siapa yang salah, supaya yang salah mendapat hukuman dan yang benar mendapat pembelaan. 33 “Ketika umat-Mu Israel dikalahkan oleh musuh karena mereka berdosa terhadap Engkau, lalu terpaksa mengungsi ke negeri lain, tetapi kemudian mereka bertobat, mengakui kekuasaan-Mu, dan memanjatkan permohonan mereka dengan menghadap ke rumah-Mu ini, 34 dengarlah doa mereka dari surga. Ampunilah dosa-dosa umat-Mu Israel dan bawalah mereka kembali ke negeri ini, yang sudah Engkau berikan kepada nenek moyang kami. 35 “Ketika umat-Mu berdosa terhadap Engkau sehingga Engkau menghukum mereka dengan menahan hujan dan mengadakan kekeringan, lalu mereka berdoa dengan menghadap ke rumah-Mu ini untuk mengakui kekuasaan-Mu dan bertobat dari dosa-dosa mereka, 36 dengarlah doa mereka dari surga dan ampunilah dosa hamba-hamba-Mu, umat Israel. Ajarilah mereka cara hidup yang benar, dan turunkanlah hujan ke atas negeri yang sudah Engkau berikan menjadi milik mereka turun temurun. 37 “Apabila di negeri ini terjadi bencana kelaparan, atau wabah penyakit, atau serangan hama seperti belalang dan ulat, atau jika musuh datang menyerang gerbang kota, apa pun musibah atau penyakit yang melanda negeri ini, 38 lalu seseorang atau seluruh umat-Mu Israel menghadap ke rumah ini, menengadahkan tangan untuk mendoakan kesulitan apa pun dalam hati mereka masing-masing, 39 dengarlah doa mereka dari rumah-Mu di surga. Ampunilah mereka dan berikanlah jawaban doa kepada setiap orang sesuai dengan sikap dan perbuatan mereka, karena hanya Engkau sajalah yang mengetahui isi hati setiap orang. 40 Dengan begitu, mereka belajar takut dan hormat kepada-Mu sepanjang hidup mereka di tanah yang Engkau berikan kepada nenek moyang kami. 41 “Begitu juga, ketika ada orang-orang asing, yang bukan umat-Mu Israel, datang dari negeri jauh untuk berdoa di rumah-Mu ini karena mendengar tentang nama-Mu yang termasyhur, kekuasaan-Mu yang hebat, dan kekuatan-Mu yang dahsyat, 43 dengarlah juga doa mereka dari rumah-Mu di surga dan kabulkanlah permohonan mereka, supaya semua bangsa di bumi mengenal Engkau dan belajar takut dan hormat kepada-Mu seperti umat-Mu Israel. Mereka juga akan tahu bahwa rumah yang aku dirikan ini adalah untuk kehormatan-Mu. 44 “Apabila umat-Mu pergi berperang melawan musuh ke daerah mana pun Engkau mengutus mereka, lalu mereka berdoa kepada-Mu dengan menghadap ke arah kota ini, yang sudah Engkau pilih, yaitu ke arah rumah yang aku dirikan untuk menghormati Engkau, 45 dengarlah doa permohonan mereka dari surga dan berilah mereka kemenangan. 46 “Suatu hari nanti, tentu umat-Mu akan berdosa terhadap Engkau, karena memang tidak ada manusia yang tak berdosa. Ketika itu terjadi, Engkau akan marah dan menyerahkan umat-Mu untuk ditawan ke negeri musuh, baik yang dekat maupun yang jauh. 47 Tetapi jika kemudian di sana umat-Mu menyadari dosa mereka dan memohon belas kasihan-Mu dengan berkata, ‘Kami sudah berdosa dan berbuat sangat jahat, ya TUHAN,’ 48 lalu dengan sepenuh hati mereka kembali kepada-Mu dan berdoa dengan menghadap ke rumah-Mu ini, yang berada di kota dan negeri yang sudah Engkau pilih dan berikan kepada nenek moyang kami, 49 dengarlah doa permohonan mereka dari rumah-Mu di surga, dan kasihanilah mereka. 50 Ampunilah segala dosa dan pelanggaran yang sudah dilakukan umat-Mu terhadap Engkau. Buatlah musuh-musuh yang menawan mereka berbelas kasihan kepada mereka. 51 Karena mereka adalah umat-Mu, milik kepunyaan-Mu yang istimewa, yang sudah Engkau bawa keluar dari Mesir, negeri perbudakan yang menyiksa seperti panasnya tempat peleburan besi. 52 “Kiranya Engkau memperhatikan dan mendengar permohonan hamba-hamba-Mu umat Israel, setiap kali mereka berseru kepada-Mu, 53 sebab Engkau ya, TUHAN, sudah mengkhususkan mereka dari antara segala bangsa di bumi untuk menjadi milik-Mu yang istimewa, sebagaimana Engkau katakan melalui hamba-Mu Musa, ketika Engkau membawa nenek moyang kami keluar dari Mesir.”

Bagian: Acara selanjutnya

54 Demikianlah Salomo berdoa di depan mezbah TUHAN sambil berlutut dan menengadahkan tangannya ke langit. Sesudah selesai, dia pun berdiri 55 dan mengucapkan berkat atas seluruh umat Israel dengan suara nyaring, 56 “Terpujilah TUHAN, yang sudah memberikan tempat tinggal yang tenang bagi umat-Nya Israel sesuai janji-Nya! Semua yang baik, yang sudah TUHAN janjikan melalui hamba-Nya, Musa, sudah Dia penuhi. 57 Kiranya TUHAN, Allah kita, selalu menyertai kita, seperti Dia menyertai nenek moyang kita. Kiranya Dia tidak pernah meninggalkan dan mengabaikan kita. 58 Kiranya Dia mengarahkan hati kita kepada-Nya, agar kita selalu menuruti petunjuk-Nya, dan menaati segala perintah, ketetapan, serta keputusan-Nya, yang telah Dia perintahkan kepada nenek moyang kita. 59 Kiranya TUHAN, Allah kita, selalu mengingat permohonanku ini setiap waktu, juga memperhatikan dan memelihara hamba-Nya ini serta seluruh umat-Nya, dengan menyediakan apa pun yang kita perlukan tiap-tiap hari. 60 Maka segala bangsa di bumi akan tahu bahwa TUHAN adalah satu-satunya Allah yang sejati. Selain Dia tidak ada yang ilahi. 61 Dan kiranya kalian masing-masing tetap setia kepada TUHAN Allah kita dengan sepenuh hati, dan selalu hidup mengikuti seluruh ketetapan dan perintah-Nya, seperti yang kalian lakukan sekarang.” 62 Kemudian Raja Salomo dan seluruh rakyat Israel yang berkumpul di sana mempersembahkan kurban-kurban bagi TUHAN. 63 Salomo mempersembahkan 22.000 ekor sapi dan 120.000 ekor domba sebagai kurban tanda damai kepada TUHAN. Demikianlah raja dan seluruh Israel meresmikan rumah TUHAN. 64 Pada hari itu juga, Salomo menyucikan bagian tengah halaman di depan rumah TUHAN. Tempat itu dia gunakan untuk mempersembahkan kurban yang dibakar habis, persembahan gandum-ganduman, dan lemak dari kurban tanda damai, karena mezbah kurban bakaran di depan rumah TUHAN tidak cukup untuk menampung semua kurban persembahan itu. 65 Salomo dan seluruh orang Israel yang berkumpul merayakan peresmian selama satu minggu, lalu menambah satu minggu lagi. Sangat besar jumlah orang yang berkumpul. Mereka datang dari daerah Lebo Hamat di bagian utara sampai daerah cabang sungai Mesir di bagian selatan. 66 Setelah dua minggu, Salomo membubarkan seluruh rakyat itu. Mereka pun mendoakan berkat bagi raja, lalu masing-masing pulang dengan sangat gembira karena segala kebaikan yang sudah TUHAN lakukan kepada hamba-Nya Daud dan umat-Nya Israel.

1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion. 2 All the men of Israel assembled themselves to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. 3 All the elders of Israel came, and the priests picked up the ark. 4 They brought up Yahweh’s ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent. The priests and the Levites brought these up. 5 King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered for multitude. 6 The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings. 7 For the cherubim spread their wings out over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above. 8 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen outside. They are there to this day. 9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. 10 It came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled Yahweh’s house, 11 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house. 12 Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. 13 I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.” 14 The king turned his face around and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood. 15 He said, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying, 16 ‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.’ 17 “Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 18 But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart. 19 Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’ 20 Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 21 There I have set a place for the ark, in which is Yahweh’s covenant, which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.” 22 Solomon stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven; 23 and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants who walk before you with all their heart; 24 who has kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today. 25 Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’ 26 “Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father. 27 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built! 28 Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today; 29 that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place. 30 Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive. 31 “If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house, 32 then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. 33 “When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, if they turn again to you and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house, 34 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers. 35 “When the sky is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and confess your name, and turn from their sin when you afflict them, 36 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land which you have given to your people for an inheritance. 37 “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is, 38 whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house, 39 then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men); 40 that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers. 41 “Moreover, concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a far country for your name’s sake 42 (for they shall hear of your great name and of your mighty hand and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house, 43 hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name. 44 “If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name, 45 then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. 46 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near; 47 yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly,’ 48 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen and the house which I have built for your name, 49 then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause; 50 and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them 51 (for they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace); 52 that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you. 53 For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.” 54 It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before Yahweh’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven. 55 He stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying, 56 “Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant. 57 May Yahweh our God be with us as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us, 58 that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers. 59 Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as every day requires; 60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh himself is God. There is no one else. 61 “Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.” 62 The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh. 63 Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, twenty two thousand head of cattle and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated Yahweh’s house. 64 The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before Yahweh’s house; for there he offered the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings. 65 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days. 66 On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.