Solomon’s Prayer at the

Dedication of the Temple

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth

� So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

� God saw all that he had made and it was very good.

Genesis 1:27,31

Expelled from Garden of Eden

� After God drove the man out of the

Garden of Eden, he placed on the east

side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a

flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way

to the tree of life.

Genesis 3:23

Covenant with Abraham

� I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you.

� I will bless those who bless you.

� And all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.

� Your offspring will be as countless as the stars of the heavens

� Genesis 12:2, 15:5

Calling of Moses

� God said to Moses,

I Am who I Am.

� This is what you are to say

to the Israelites: I Am has sent

me to you

Exodus 3:14-15

Moses went up to God

� And God spoke all these words:

I Am the Lord your God

who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of

slavery.

� Make this tabernacle

and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.

� Exodus 20:1, 25:9

Moses sets up the Tabernacle

� The Israelites had done all the work just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

� Moses inspected the work and saw that they had done it just as the Lord had commanded. So Moses blessed them.

Moses sets up the Tabernacle

� Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting and

the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

� Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud had

settled upon it and the glory of the Lord filled

the tabernacle.

Exodus 40:34-35

King David plans to build a Temple for the Name of the Lord

� David said: here I am living in a palace of cedar while the ark of God remains in a tent.

� God said: your offspring is the one who will build a house for my Name and I will establish his kingdom for ever.

2 Samuel 7:2, 7:13

King Solomon builds a Temple for the Name of the Lord

� Solomon began to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah. 2 Chronicles 3:1

Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication.

Solomon prays to God:� keeps his covenant promises.� kept his promises to King David.� promised that His Name would dwell in the

Temple.� when sin is confessed at the Temple that

God would forgive those sins.� That people of all nations would hear of

God and honour Him.� That God would always hear those who

call to Him.

God replies to Solomon:� I have heard your prayer� I have consecrated the Temple and put my

Name there for ever.� My eyes and my heart will always be there.

1 Kings 8 and 2 Chronicles 6

King Solomon builds a Temple for the Name of the Lord

� Then the temple of the Lord was filled with cloud and the

priests could not perform their service because of the cloud

for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God. 1 Kings 8:10

The Way, the Truth and the Life

� Jesus answered, I am the way the truth and the life.

� No-one comes to the Father

except through me.John 14:6

From Paradise lost

to Paradise regained.

� Therefore brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy

Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new

and living way opened for us through

the curtain, that is by his body, and

since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God.

• Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.Hebrews 10:19,10:23