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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,
02 That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second
time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
03 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.
04 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:
05 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.
06 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:
07 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:
08 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?
09 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.
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,
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.
12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities
which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him
not.
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.
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14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of
gold.
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.
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.
17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the
nether,
18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in
the land,
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.
20 And all the people that were left of the
Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and
Jebusites, which were not of the children of
Israel,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants,
shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the
servants of Solomon.
28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from
thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and
brought it to king Solomon.
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