FIRST
KINGS
1 Kings Chapter 9
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¶ After Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD, and the king’s
house, and all that Solomon desired to build,
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The LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at
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And the LORD said to him, I have heard your prayer and the request, that you
have made before me: I have consecrated this house, which you have built, to
put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.
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And 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 my judgments:
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Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over
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But if you or your children turn away from following me, and will not
keep my commandments and the statutes which I have set before you, but
go and serve other gods, and worship them:
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Then I will cut off
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And everyone who passes by this house, which is now exalted, shall be
astonished, and shall hiss; and shall say, Why has the LORD done this to this
land, and to this house?
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And they will answer, Because they forsook the LORD
their God, who brought their fathers out of the
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¶ At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had
built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king’s house,
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(For which Hiram the king of
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But when Hiram came from
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And he said, What are these towns that you have
given me worth, my brother? So they are called the worthless land to
this day.
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For Hiram had sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.
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¶ Now this is the account of the draft which
king Solomon raised; to build the house of the LORD, his own house, Millo, the wall of
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For Pharaoh king of
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So Solomon rebuilt
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And Baalath, and Tadmor in
the desert, in the
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And all the cities of stores that Solomon had, cities for his chariots, cities
for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon wanted to build in
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And all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not of the children of
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Their descendants who remained in the land, whom the
children of
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But Solomon did not make any slaves of the children of
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These were the chief officers over Solomon’s work, five hundred and
fifty, who had charge over the people who did the work.
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But Pharaoh’s daughter moved up out of the city of
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And three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on
the altar that he built to the LORD, and he burned incense on the altar that was
before the LORD. So he finished the house.
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And king Solomon built a fleet of ships at Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth,
on the shore of the
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And Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, seamen who had knowledge of the
sea, along with Solomon’s servants.
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And they went to Ophir, and brought four hundred and
twenty talents of gold from there, and took it to king
Solomon.