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* 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 was pleased to execute : * That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time , as he had appeared unto him at Gib ’on . * And the Lord said unto him , I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication , that thou hast offered before me ; I have hallowed this house , which thou hast built , to put my name there for ever ; and my eyes and my heart shall be there at all times . * And as for thee , if thou wilt walk before me , as David thy father walked , in integrity of heart , and in rectitude , to do in accordance with all that I have commanded thee , wilt keep my statutes and my ordinances : * Then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever ; as I have spoken concerning David thy father , saying , There shall never fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel . * But if ye will at all turn away , ye or your children , from following me , and will not keep my commandments my statutes which I have set before you , and go and serve other gods , and bow down to them : * Then will I cut off Israel from the face of the land which I have given them ; and the house , which I have hallowed unto my name , will I cast away from my sight ; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by –word among all the nations ; * And at this house , should be so exalted , every one that passeth by it shall be astonished , and shall hiss ; and men will say , Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land , and unto this house ? * And they shall say , For the cause that they forsook the Lord their God , who had brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt , and took hold of other gods , and bowed down to them , and served them : therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil . * 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 , * (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar –trees and fir –trees , and with gold , according to all his desire ,) that king Solomon then gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee . * And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him ; but they were not right in his eyes . * And he said , What kind of cities are these which thou hast given me , my brother ? And he called them , The land of Cabul , until this day . * And Hiram sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold . * And this is the manner of the levy which king Solomon raised , to build the house of the Lord , and his own house , and the Millo , and the wall of Jerusalem , and Chazor , and Megiddo , and Gezer . * (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up , and captured Gezer , and burnt it with fire , and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city , and given it as a marriage –present unto his daughter , Solomon ’s wife . * And Solomon built Gezer , and lower Beth –choron , * And Ba ’alath , and Thadmor in the wilderness , in the land , * And all the treasure –cities that Solomon had , and the cities for the chariots , and the cities for the horsemen , and the desire of Solomon which 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 Emorites , the Hittites , the Perizzites , the Hivites , and the Jebusites , who were not of the children of Israel , * Their children that were left after them in the land , whom the children of Israel had not been able utterly to destroy , these did Solomon levy as tributary laborers until this day . * Yet of the children of Israel did Solomon make no one a bond –man ; but they were the men of war , and his servants , and his princes , and his captains , and the officers of his chariots , and of his horsemen . * These were the chiefs of the superintendents that were over Solomon ’s work , five hundred and fifty , who ruled over the people that wrought on the work . * But Pharaoh ’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which he had built for her : then did he build the Millo . * And Solomon did offer three times in every year burnt –offerings and peace –offerings upon the altar which he had built unto the Lord , and he burnt incense upon the one that was before the Lord . So he finished the house . * And king Solomon made a ship in ‘Ezyon –geber , which is near Eloth , on the shore of the Red Sea , in the land of Edom . * And Hiram sent in the ship his servants , seamen , that had knowledge of the sea , with the servants of Solomon . * And they came to Ophir , and fetched from there gold , four hundred and twenty talents , and brought it to king Solomon .

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