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The Lord Appears to Solomon

When Solomon had finished building the temple of the Lord and the royal palace, and had achieved all he had desired to do,

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God’s Second Appearance to Solomon

And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he wanted to do,

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the Lord appeared to him a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

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that the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.

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The Lord said to him:
“I have heard the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

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And the Lord said to him: “I have heard your prayer and your supplication 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 perpetually.

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“As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart and uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws,

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Now if you walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments,

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I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’

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then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, ‘You shall not fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’

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“But if youa or your descendants turn away from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given youb and go off to serve other gods and worship them,

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But if you or your sons at all [a]turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My 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 Israel from the land I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. Israel will then become a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

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then I will [b]cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight. Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

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This temple will become a heap of rubble. Allc who pass by will be appalled and will scoff and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

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And as for this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

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People will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them — that is why the Lord brought all this disaster on them.’ ”

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Then they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore the Lord has brought all this calamity on them.’ ”

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Solomon’s Other Activities

At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings — the temple of the Lord and the royal palace —

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Solomon and Hiram Exchange Gifts

Now it happened at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house

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King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and juniper and gold he wanted.

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(Hiram the king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress and gold, as much as he desired), that King Solomon then gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

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But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.

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Then Hiram went from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, but they did not please him.

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“What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?” he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul,d a name they have to this day.

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So he said, “What kind of cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” And he called them the land of [c]Cabul, as they are to this day.

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Now Hiram had sent to the king 120 talentse of gold.

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Then Hiram sent the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

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Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the terraces,f the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer.

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Solomon’s Additional Achievements

And this is the reason for the labor force which King Solomon raised: to build the house of the Lord, his own house, [d]the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

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(Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire. He killed its Canaanite inhabitants and then gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

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(Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer and burned it with fire, had killed the Canaanites who dwelt in the city, and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.)

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And Solomon rebuilt Gezer.) He built up Lower Beth Horon,

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And Solomon built Gezer, Lower Beth Horon,

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Baalath, and Tadmorg in the desert, within his land,

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Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,

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as well as all his store cities and the towns for his chariots and for his horsesh — whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.

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all the storage cities that Solomon had, cities for his chariots and cities for his cavalry, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

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There were still people left from the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these peoples were not Israelites).

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All the people who were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel —

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Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these peoples remaining in the land — whom the Israelites could not exterminatei — to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day.

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that is, their descendants who were left in the land after them, whom the children of Israel had not been able to destroy completely — from these Solomon raised forced labor, as it is to this day.

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But Solomon did not make slaves of any of the Israelites; they were his fighting men, his government officials, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and charioteers.

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But of the children of Israel Solomon made no forced laborers, because they were men of war and his servants: his officers, his captains, commanders of his chariots, and his cavalry.

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They were also the chief officials in charge of Solomon’s projects — 550 officials supervising those who did the work.

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Others were chiefs of the officials who were over Solomon’s work: five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people who did the work.

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After Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace Solomon had built for her, he constructed the terraces.

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But Pharaoh’s daughter came up from the City of David to her house which [e]Solomon had built for her. Then he built the Millo.

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Three times a year Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense before the Lord along with them, and so fulfilled the temple obligations.

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Now three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he had built for the Lord, and he burned incense with them on the altar that was before the Lord. So he finished the temple.

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King Solomon also built ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.j

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King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion Geber, which is near [f]Elath on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

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And Hiram sent his men — sailors who knew the sea — to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s men.

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Then Hiram sent his servants with the fleet, seamen who knew the sea, to work with the servants of Solomon.

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They sailed to Ophir and brought back 420 talentsk of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.

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And they went to Ophir, and acquired four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon.

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1 Kings 9

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