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Joshua 8:33 (NIV)

All the Israelites, with their elders, officials and judges, were standing on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the Lord , facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Both the foreigners living among them and the native-born were there. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had formerly commanded when he gave instructions to bless the people of Israel.

Joshua 8:34 (NIV)

Afterward, Joshua read all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses—just as it is written in the Book of the Law.

Joshua 8:35 (NIV)

There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read to the whole assembly of Israel, including the women and children, and the foreigners who lived among them.

1 Corinthians 8:1 (NIV)

Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.

1 Corinthians 8:2 (NIV)

Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know.

1 Corinthians 8:3 (NIV)

But whoever loves God is known by God.

1 Corinthians 8:4 (NIV)

So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world” and that “There is no God but one.”

1 Corinthians 8:5 (NIV)

For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”),

1 Corinthians 8:6 (NIV)

yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.

1 Corinthians 8:7 (NIV)

But not everyone possesses this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.

1 Corinthians 8:8 (NIV)

But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

1 Corinthians 8:9 (NIV)

Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

1 Corinthians 8:10 (NIV)

For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols?

1 Corinthians 8:11 (NIV)

So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.

1 Corinthians 8:12 (NIV)

When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

1 Corinthians 8:13 (NIV)

Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.

1 Kings 8:1 (NIV)

Then King Solomon summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the Lord ’s covenant from Zion, the City of David.

1 Kings 8:2 (NIV)

All the Israelites came together to King Solomon at the time of the festival in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month.

1 Kings 8:3 (NIV)

When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests took up the ark,

1 Kings 8:4 (NIV)

and they brought up the ark of the Lord and the tent of meeting and all the sacred furnishings in it. The priests and Levites carried them up,

1 Kings 8:5 (NIV)

and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted.

1 Kings 8:6 (NIV)

The priests then brought the ark of the Lord ’s covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim.

1 Kings 8:7 (NIV)

The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its carrying poles.

1 Kings 8:8 (NIV)

These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today.

1 Kings 8:9 (NIV)

There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.