1 Kings 9
The LORD's Covenant with Solomon |
2 Chr. 7.11-22 |
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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,
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that the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at
Gibeon. 1 Kgs. 3.5 · 2 Chr. 1.7
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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.
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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;
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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. 1
Kgs. 2.4
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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;
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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 people:
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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? 2 Kgs. 25.9 · 2 Chr. 36.19
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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.
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Solomon's Further
Activities |
2 Chr. 8.1-18 |
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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,
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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 thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of
Cabul unto 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; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of
Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megid'do, and Gezer.
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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.
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And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-ho'ron
the nether.
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And Ba'alath, and Tadmor in the
wilderness, in the land,
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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.
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And all the people that
were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Per'izzites, Hivites, and
Jeb'usites, which 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 also were not able utterly
to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice
unto this day.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And three times in a year Ex.
23.17 ; 34.23 · Deut. 16.16 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.
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And king Solomon made a navy of ships
in E'zi-on-ge'ber, 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
thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
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