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heaven and the heaven of heavens c much less this house which I hay therefore to the prayer of thy serv tion, O Lord my God, to hearke prayer which thy servant prayeth eyes may be open upon this house place whereof thou hast said that th there, to hearken unto the prayer w toward this place.

3. Hearken therefore unto the vant, and of thy people Israel, whic this place hear thou from thy dw heaven; and when thou hearest, i against his neighbor, and an oath be him swear, and the oath come be house; then hear thou from heaver servants, by requiting the wicked, b upon his own head; and by justifyi ing him according to his righteousn

4. And if thy people Israel be pu enemy, because they have sinned ag turn and confess thy name, and pray before thee in this house; then hear and forgive the sin of thy people again unto the land which thou gav fathers. When the heaven is shut u because they have sinned against th ward this place, and confess thy na sin, when thou dost afflict them; ther and forgive the sin of thy servants, a

owest; (for thou only knowest the men;) that they may fear thee, to as they live in the land, which

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g the stranger, which is not of thy e from a far country for thy great ghty hand, and thy stretched-out ray in this house, then hear thou om thy dwelling-place, and do acanger calleth to thee for; that all know thy name, and fear thee, as may know that this house which y name. If thy people go out to s by the way that thou shalt send o thee toward this city which thou e which I have built for thy name; eavens their prayer and their supeir cause.

hee, (for there is no man which angry with them, and deliver them , and they carry them away capr near; yet if they bethink themthey are carried captive, and turn land of their captivity, saying, We e amiss, and have dealt wickedly:

all their heart, and with all their aptivity, whither they have carried to'ward their land, which thou and to'ward the city, which thou the house, which I have built for u from the heavens, even from thy

9. Now whe fire came down ing and the sa house. And th the Lord, becau house. And w fire came down they bowed the the pavement, a For he is good

ELIJA

1. AND in
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fire came down from heaven, and co

ing and the sacrifices; and the glor house. And the priests could not the Lord, because the glory of the Lo house. And when all the children fire came down, and the glory of the they bowed themselves with their fac the pavement, and worshipped, and p For he is good; for his mercy endur

LESSON XXV

ELIJAH AND THE PROPHE

[1 Kings xviii. 29.] 1. AND in the thirty-and-eighth Judah, began Ahab the son of Om and Ahab the son of Omri reigned twenty-and-two years. And Ahab t in the sight of the Lord above all And it came to pass, as if it had be to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the took to wife Jez'ebel, the daughter o Zido'nians, and went and served Ba'a And he reared up an altar for Baal which he had built in Samaria. And and Ahab did more to provoke the anger than all the kings of Israel tha

e answered him not a word.

the people, I, even I only, remain Baal's prophets are four hundred therefore, give us two bullocks; lock for themselves, and cut it in nd put no fire under and I will lay it on wood, and put no fire name of your gods, and I will call and the God that answereth by all the people answered and said, lijah said unto the prophets of ock for yourselves, and dress it call on the name of your gods,

lock which was given them, and the name of Baal from morning Baal, hear us! But there was no

ed. And they leaped upon the d it came to pass at noon, that aid, Cry aloud! for he is a god; pursuing, or he is in a journey, , and must be awaked! And emselves after their manner with blood gushed out upon them. en mid-day was past, and they the offering of the evening sacrivoice, nor any to answer, nor any

all the people, Come near unto ne near unto him. And he rethat was broken down. And

e altar; an 6. And it evening sacri said, LORD ISRAEL, let Israel, and th these things this people m that thou hast of the Lord f wood, and the that was in t they fell on t the GOD! th

ELIJ

1. AND AH withal how he Then Jezebe the gods do to the life of on when he saw to Be-er'she-b servant there. wilderness, an

t a word.
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of your gods,
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evening sacrifice, that Elijah the said, LORD GOD OF ABRAHA ISRAEL, let it be known this d Israel, and that I am thy servant, these things at thy word. Hear m

this people may know that thou ar that thou hast turned their heart ba of the Lord fell, and consumed the wood, and the stones, and the dust, that was in the trench. And whe they fell on their faces: and they the GOD! the LORD, he is the G

LESSON XX

ELIJAH'S DISTRUST OF G

(1 Kings xix. 1.

1. AND Ahab told Jezebel all th withal how he had slain all the p Then Jezebel sent a messenger u the gods do to me, and more also, the life of one of them by to-morrow when he saw that, he arose, and we to Be-er'she-ba, which belongeth servant there. But he himself wen wilderness, and came and sat dow

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