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Now king David was old and stricken in years ;
and they covered him with clothes ,
but he gat no heat .
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Wherefore his servants said unto him ,
Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin :
and let her stand before the king ,
and let her cherish him ,
and let her lie in thy bosom ,
that my lord the king may get heat .
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So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel ,
and found Abishag a Shunammite ,
and brought her to the king .
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And the damsel was very fair ,
and cherished the king ,
and ministered to him :
but the king knew her not .
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Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself ,
saying ,
I will be king :
and he prepared him chariots and horsemen ,
and fifty men to run before him .
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And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying ,
Why hast thou done so ?
and he also was a very goodly man ;
and his mother bare him after Absalom .
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And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah ,
and with Abiathar the priest :
and they following Adonijah helped him .
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But Zadok the priest ,
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ,
and Nathan the prophet ,
and Shimei ,
and Rei ,
and the mighty men which belonged to David ,
were not with Adonijah .
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And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth ,
which is by Enrogel ,
and called all his brethren the king '
s sons ,
and all the men of Judah the king '
s servants :
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But Nathan the prophet ,
and Benaiah ,
and the mighty men ,
and Solomon his brother ,
he called not .
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Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon ,
saying ,
Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign ,
and David our lord knoweth it not ?
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Now therefore come ,
let me ,
I pray thee ,
give thee counsel ,
that thou mayest save thine own life ,
and the life of thy son Solomon .
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Go and get thee in unto king David ,
and say unto him ,
Didst not thou ,
my lord ,
O king ,
swear unto thine handmaid ,
saying ,
Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me ,
and he shall sit upon my throne ?
why then doth Adonijah reign ?
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Behold ,
while thou yet talkest there with the king ,
I also will come in after thee ,
and confirm thy words .
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And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber :
and the king was very old ;
and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king .
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And Bathsheba bowed ,
and did obeisance unto the king .
And the king said ,
What wouldest thou ?
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And she said unto him ,
My lord ,
thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid ,
saying ,
Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me ,
and he shall sit upon my throne .
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And now ,
behold ,
Adonijah reigneth ;
and now ,
my lord the king ,
thou knowest it not :
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And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance ,
and hath called all the sons of the king ,
and Abiathar the priest ,
and Joab the captain of the host :
but Solomon thy servant hath he not called .
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And thou ,
my lord ,
O king ,
the eyes of all Israel are upon thee ,
that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him .
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Otherwise it shall come to pass ,
when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers ,
that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders .
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And ,
lo ,
while she yet talked with the king ,
Nathan the prophet also came in .
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And they told the king ,
saying ,
Behold Nathan the prophet .
And when he was come in before the king ,
he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground .
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And Nathan said ,
My lord ,
O king ,
hast thou said ,
Adonijah shall reign after me ,
and he shall sit upon my throne ?
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For he is gone down this day ,
and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance ,
and hath called all the king '
s sons ,
and the captains of the host ,
and Abiathar the priest ;
and ,
behold ,
they eat and drink before him ,
and say ,
God save king Adonijah .
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But me ,
even me thy servant ,
and Zadok the priest ,
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ,
and thy servant Solomon ,
hath he not called .
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Is this thing done by my lord the king ,
and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant ,
who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him ?
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Then king David answered and said ,
Call me Bathsheba .
And she came into the king '
s presence ,
and stood before the king .
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And the king sware ,
and said ,
As the LORD liveth ,
that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress ,
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Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel ,
saying ,
Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me ,
and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead ;
even so will I certainly do this day .
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Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth ,
and did reverence to the king ,
and said ,
Let my lord king David live for ever .
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And king David said ,
Call me Zadok the priest ,
and Nathan the prophet ,
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada .
And they came before the king .
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The king also said unto them ,
Take with you the servants of your lord ,
and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule ,
and bring him down to Gihon :
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And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel :
and blow ye with the trumpet ,
and say ,
God save king Solomon .
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Then ye shall come up after him ,
that he may come and sit upon my throne ;
for he shall be king in my stead :
and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah .
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And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king ,
and said ,
Amen :
the LORD God of my lord the king say so too .
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As the LORD hath been with my lord the king ,
even so be he with Solomon ,
and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David .
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So Zadok the priest ,
and Nathan the prophet ,
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ,
and the Cherethites ,
and the Pelethites ,
went down ,
and caused Solomon to ride upon king David '
s mule ,
and brought him to Gihon .
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And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle ,
and anointed Solomon .
And they blew the trumpet ;
and all the people said ,
God save king Solomon .
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And all the people came up after him ,
and the people piped with pipes ,
and rejoiced with great joy ,
so that the earth rent with the sound of them .
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And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating .
And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet ,
he said ,
Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar ?
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And while he yet spake ,
behold ,
Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came :
and Adonijah said unto him ,
Come in ;
for thou art a valiant man ,
and bringest good tidings .
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And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah ,
Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king .
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And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest ,
and Nathan the prophet ,
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ,
and the Cherethites ,
and the Pelethites ,
and they have caused him to ride upon the king '
s mule :
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And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon :
and they are come up from thence rejoicing ,
so that the city rang again .
This is the noise that ye have heard .
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And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom .
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And moreover the king '
s servants came to bless our lord king David ,
saying ,
God make the name of Solomon better than thy name ,
and make his throne greater than thy throne .
And the king bowed himself upon the bed .
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And also thus said the king ,
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel ,
which hath given one to sit on my throne this day ,
mine eyes even seeing it .
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And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid ,
and rose up ,
and went every man his way .
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And Adonijah feared because of Solomon ,
and arose ,
and went ,
and caught hold on the horns of the altar .
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And it was told Solomon ,
saying ,
Behold ,
Adonijah feareth king Solomon :
for ,
lo ,
he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar ,
saying ,
Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword .
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And Solomon said ,
If he will shew himself a worthy man ,
there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth :
but if wickedness shall be found in him ,
he shall die .
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So king Solomon sent ,
and they brought him down from the altar .
And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon :
and Solomon said unto him ,
Go to thine house .
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Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die ;
and he charged Solomon his son ,
saying ,
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I go the way of all the earth :
be thou strong therefore ,
and shew thyself a man ;
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And keep the charge of the LORD thy God ,
to walk in his ways ,
to keep his statutes ,
and his commandments ,
and his judgments ,
and his testimonies ,
as it is written in the law of Moses ,
that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest ,
and whithersoever thou turnest thyself :
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That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me ,
saying ,
If thy children take heed to their way ,
to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul ,
there shall not fail thee (
said he )
a man on the throne of Israel .
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Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me ,
and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel ,
unto Abner the son of Ner ,
and unto Amasa the son of Jether ,
whom he slew ,
and shed the blood of war in peace ,
and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins ,
and in his shoes that were on his feet .
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Do therefore according to thy wisdom ,
and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace .
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But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite ,
and let them be of those that eat at thy table :
for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother .
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And ,
behold ,
thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera ,
a Benjamite of Bahurim ,
which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim :
but he came down to meet me at Jordan ,
and I sware to him by the LORD ,
saying ,
I will not put thee to death with the sword .
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Now therefore hold him not guiltless :
for thou art a wise man ,
and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him ;
but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood .
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So David slept with his fathers ,
and was buried in the city of David .
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And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years :
seven years reigned he in Hebron ,
and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem .
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Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father ;
and his kingdom was established greatly .
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And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon .
And she said ,
Comest thou peaceably ?
And he said ,
Peaceably .
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He said moreover ,
I have somewhat to say unto thee .
And she said ,
Say on .
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And he said ,
Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine ,
and that all Israel set their faces on me ,
that I should reign :
howbeit the kingdom is turned about ,
and is become my brother '
s :
for it was his from the LORD .
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And now I ask one petition of thee ,
deny me not .
And she said unto him ,
Say on .
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And he said ,
Speak ,
I pray thee ,
unto Solomon the king , (
for he will not say thee nay ,)
that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife .
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And Bathsheba said ,
Well ;
I will speak for thee unto the king .
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Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon ,
to speak unto him for Adonijah .
And the king rose up to meet her ,
and bowed himself unto her ,
and sat down on his throne ,
and caused a seat to be set for the king '
s mother ;
and she sat on his right hand .
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Then she said ,
I desire one small petition of thee ;
I pray thee ,
say me not nay .
And the king said unto her ,
Ask on ,
my mother :
for I will not say thee nay .
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And she said ,
Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife .
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And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother ,
And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah ?
ask for him the kingdom also ;
for he is mine elder brother ;
even for him ,
and for Abiathar the priest ,
and for Joab the son of Zeruiah .
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Then king Solomon sware by the LORD ,
saying ,
God do so to me ,
and more also ,
if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life .
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Now therefore ,
as the LORD liveth ,
which hath established me ,
and set me on the throne of David my father ,
and who hath made me an house ,
as he promised ,
Adonijah shall be put to death this day .
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And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ;
and he fell upon him that he died .
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And unto Abiathar the priest said the king ,
Get thee to Anathoth ,
unto thine own fields ;
for thou art worthy of death :
but I will not at this time put thee to death ,
because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father ,
and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted .
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So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD ;
that he might fulfil the word of the LORD ,
which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh .
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Then tidings came to Joab :
for Joab had turned after Adonijah ,
though he turned not after Absalom .
And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD ,
and caught hold on the horns of the altar .
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And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD ;
and ,
behold ,
he is by the altar .
Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ,
saying ,
Go ,
fall upon him .
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And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD ,
and said unto him ,
Thus saith the king ,
Come forth .
And he said ,
Nay ;
but I will die here .
And Benaiah brought the king word again ,
saying ,
Thus said Joab ,
and thus he answered me .
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And the king said unto him ,
Do as he hath said ,
and fall upon him ,
and bury him ;
that thou mayest take away the innocent blood ,
which Joab shed ,
from me ,
and from the house of my father .
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And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head ,
who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he ,
and slew them with the sword ,
my father David not knowing thereof ,
to wit ,
Abner the son of Ner ,
captain of the host of Israel ,
and Amasa the son of Jether ,
captain of the host of Judah .
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Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab ,
and upon the head of his seed for ever :
but upon David ,
and upon his seed ,
and upon his house ,
and upon his throne ,
shall there be peace for ever from the LORD .
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So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up ,
and fell upon him ,
and slew him :
and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness .
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And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host :
and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar .
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And the king sent and called for Shimei ,
and said unto him ,
Build thee an house in Jerusalem ,
and dwell there ,
and go not forth thence any whither .
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For it shall be ,
that on the day thou goest out ,
and passest over the brook Kidron ,
thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die :
thy blood shall be upon thine own head .
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And Shimei said unto the king ,
The saying is good :
as my lord the king hath said ,
so will thy servant do .
And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days .
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And it came to pass at the end of three years ,
that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath .
And they told Shimei ,
saying ,
Behold ,
thy servants be in Gath .
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And Shimei arose ,
and saddled his ass ,
and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants :
and Shimei went ,
and brought his servants from Gath .
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And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath ,
and was come again .
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And the king sent and called for Shimei ,
and said unto him ,
Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD ,
and protested unto thee ,
saying ,
Know for a certain ,
on the day thou goest out ,
and walkest abroad any whither ,
that thou shalt surely die ?
and thou saidst unto me ,
The word that I have heard is good .
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Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD ,
and the commandment that I have charged thee with ?
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The king said moreover to Shimei ,
Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to ,
that thou didst to David my father :
therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head ;
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And king Solomon shall be blessed ,
and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever .
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So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ;
which went out ,
and fell upon him ,
that he died .
And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon .
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And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt ,
and took Pharaoh '
s daughter ,
and brought her into the city of David ,
until he had made an end of building his own house ,
and the house of the LORD ,
and the wall of Jerusalem round about .
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