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| 9:1 | And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the
building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house,
and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do, |
| 9:2 | That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as
he had appeared unto him at Gibeon. |
| 9:3 | And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer
and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I
have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put
my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart
shall be there perpetually. |
| 9:4 | And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father
walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do
according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt
keep my statutes and my judgments: |
| 9:5 | Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon
Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father,
saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne
of Israel. |
| 9:6 | But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or
your children, and will not keep my commandments and my
statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve
other gods, and worship them: |
| 9:7 | 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 people: |
| 9:8 | And at this house, which is high, every one that
passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and
they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this
land, and to this house? |
| 9:9 | And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD
their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the
land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and
have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the
LORD brought upon them all this evil. |
| 9:10 | And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when
Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD,
and the king's house, |
| 9:11 | (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. |
| 9:12 | And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which
Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not. |
| 9:13 | And he said, What cities are these which thou hast
given me, my brother? And he called them the land of
Cabul unto this day. |
| 9:14 | And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold. |
| 9:15 | And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon
raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own
house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor,
and Megiddo, and Gezer. |
| 9:16 | For 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 present unto
his daughter, Solomon's wife. |
| 9:17 | And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether, |
| 9:18 | And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the
land, |
| 9:19 | And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and
cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and
that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in
Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. |
| 9:20 | And all the people that were left of the Amorites,
Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were
not of the children of Israel, |
| 9:21 | Their children that were left after them in the land,
whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to
destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of
bondservice unto this day. |
| 9:22 | But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no
bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and
his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his
chariots, and his horsemen. |
| 9:23 | These were the chief of the officers that were over
Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule
over the people that wrought in the work. |
| 9:24 | But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of
David unto her house which Solomon had built for her:
then did he build Millo. |
| 9:25 | And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt
offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he
built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar
that was before the LORD. So he finished the house. |
| 9:26 | And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber,
which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in
the land of Edom. |
| 9:27 | And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that
had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. |
| 9:28 | And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold,
four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king
Solomon. |