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* And it happened , as Solomon finished building the house of Jehovah , and the house of the king , and all the desire of Solomon that he delighted to do , * that Jehovah appeared to Solomon a second time , as He appeared to him in Gibeon . * And Jehovah said to him , I have heard your prayer and your supplication with which you have made supplication before Me ; I have sanctified this house that you have built to put My name there forever ; and My eyes and My heart shall be there forever . * And you , if you walk before me as your father David walked , in singleness of heart , and in uprightness , to do according to all that I have commanded you ; you shall keep My statutes and My judgments ; * then I shall establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever , as I spoke to your father David , saying , there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel . * If you at all turn back , you and your sons , from following me , and do not keep My commands , My statutes which I have set before you , and you shall go and serve other gods and bow yourselves to them , * then I shall cut off Israel from the face of the land that I have given to them , and the house that I have hallowed for My name I shall send away from My face , and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples . * As to this house , which is high , everyone passing by it shall be astonished and shall hiss , and they shall say , Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house ? * And they shall say , Because they have forsaken Jehovah their God , who brought their fathers out from the land of Egypt , and they laid hold on other gods and bowed themselves to them and served them . On account of this Jehovah has brought in upon them all this evil . * And it happened , at the end of twenty years Solomon had built the two houses , the house of Jehovah and the house of the king . * Hiram the king of Tyre had lifted Solomon with cedar trees and with fir trees , and with gold , according to all his desire ; then king Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee . * And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given to him , and they were not right in his eyes . * And he said , What are these cities that you have given to me , my brother ? And one called them the land of Cabul to this day . * And Hiram sent to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold . * And this is the reason of the labor force that king Solomon raised , to build the house of Jehovah , and his own house , and Millo , and the wall of Jerusalem , and Hazor , and Megiddo , and Gezer . * (Pharaoh the king of Egypt had gone up and had captured Gezer , and had burned it with fire . And he killed the Canaanites who lived in the city , and gave it as a dowry to his daughter , the wife of Solomon .) * and Solomon built Gezer , and Beth-horon the lower , * and Baalath , and Tadmor in the wilderness , in the land ; * and all the store cities which Solomon had , and the cities for his chariots , and the cities of the horsemen , and the desire of Solomon that he desired to build in Jerusalem , and in Lebanon , and in all the land of his dominion . * All the people that were left of the Amorites , the Hittites , the Perizzites , the Hivites , and the Jebusites who were not of the sons of Israel , * their sons left behind them in the land , whom the sons of Israel had not been able to exterminate , Solomon even caused to go on them a burden of forced labor to this day . * But Solomon did not choose a slave out of the sons of Israel , for they were the men of war , and his servants , and his rulers , and his commanders , and the commanders of his chariots , and his horsemen . * These were the commanders of the officers who were over the work of Solomon : five hundred and fifty , those ruling among the people who were laboring in the work . * But the daughter of Pharaoh went up out of the city of David to her house that he built for her ; then he built Millo . * And three times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he built to Jehovah , and he burned incense on the altar before Jehovah , and finished the house . * And king Solomon built a navy in Ezion-geber , which is beside Eloth , on the lip of the Sea of Reeds , in the land of Edom . * And Hiram sent his servants in the navy , shipmen who knew the sea , with the servants of Solomon ; * and they came to Ophir and took gold from there , four hundred and twenty talents , and brought it in to king Solomon .

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