1Kgs 9
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And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of YHWH,
and the king`s house, and all Solomon`s desire which he was pleased to do,
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that YHWH appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
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And YHWH said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have
made before me: I have hallowed this house, which you have built, to put my name there
for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
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And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity
of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and
will keep my statutes and mine ordinances;
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then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel for ever, according as
I promised to David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man upon the throne
of Israel.
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But if you shall turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my
commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other
gods, and worship them;
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then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house,
which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be
a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
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And though this house is so high, yet shall every one that passes by it be astonished,
and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has YHWH done thus to this land, and to this
house?
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and they shall answer, Because they forsook YHWH their God, who brought forth their
fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them,
and served them: therefore has YHWH brought all this evil upon them.
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And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the two
houses, the house of YHWH and the king`s house
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(now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar-trees and fir-trees,
and with gold, according to all his desire), that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty
cities in the land of Galilee.
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And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they
pleased him not.
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And he said, What cities are these which you have given me, my brother? And he called
them the land of Cabul to this day.
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And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
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And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of
YHWH, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo,
and Gezer.
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Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain
the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a portion to his daughter,
Solomon`s wife.
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And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,
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and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,
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and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the
cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure
in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
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As for all the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites,
the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;
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their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel
were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants
to this day.
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But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants; but they were the
men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his
chariots and of his horsemen.
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These were the chief officers that were over Solomon`s work, five hundred and fifty,
who bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.
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But Pharaoh`s daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which [Solomon]
had built for her: then did he build Millo.
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And three times a year did Solomon offer burnt-offerings and peace-offerings upon
the altar which he built to YHWH, burning incense therewith, [upon the altar] that
was before YHWH. So he finished the house.
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And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the
shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
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And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with
the servants of Solomon.
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And they came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents,
and brought it to king Solomon.