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ylt @1Kings:9:1 @And it cometh to pass , at Solomon 's finishing to build the house of Jehovah , and the house of the king , and all the desire of Solomon that he delighted to do , ylt @1Kings:9:2 @that Jehovah appeareth unto Solomon a second time , as He appeared unto him in Gibeon , ylt @1Kings:9:3 @and Jehovah saith unto him , 'I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication with which thou hast made supplication before Me ; I have hallowed this house that thou hast built to put My name there -- unto the age , and Mine eyes and My heart have been there all the days . ylt @1Kings:9:4 @'And thou -- if thou dost walk before Me as David thy father walked , in simplicity of heart , and in uprightness , to do according to all that I have commanded thee -- My statutes and My judgments thou dost keep -- ylt @1Kings:9:5 @then I have established the throne of thy kingdom over Israel -- to the age , as I spake unto David thy father , saying , There is not cut off to thee a man from [being ] on the throne of Israel . ylt @1Kings:9:6 @'If ye at all turn back -- you and your sons -- from after Me , and keep not My commands -- My statutes , that I have set before you , and ye have gone and served other gods , and bowed yourselves to them , ylt @1Kings:9:7 @then I have cut off Israel from the face of the ground that I have given to them , and the house that I have hallowed for My name I send away from My presence , and Israel hath been for a simile and for a byword among all the peoples ; ylt @1Kings:9:8 @as to this house , [that ] is high , every one passing by it is astonished , and hath hissed , and they have said , Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house ? ylt @1Kings:9:9 @and they have said , Because that they have forsaken Jehovah their God , who brought out their fathers from the land of Egypt , and they lay hold on other gods , and bow themselves to them , and serve them ; therefore hath Jehovah brought in upon them all this evil .' ylt @1Kings:9:10 @And it cometh to pass , at the end of twenty years , that Solomon hath built the two houses , the house of Jehovah , and the house of the king . ylt @1Kings:9:11 @Hiram king of Tyre hath assisted Solomon with cedar-trees , and with fir-trees , and with gold , according to all his desire ; then doth king Solomon give to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee . ylt @1Kings:9:12 @And Hiram cometh out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon hath given to him , and they have not been right in his eyes , ylt @1Kings:9:13 @and he saith , 'What [are ] these cities that thou hast given to me , my brother ?' and one calleth them the land of Cabul unto this day . ylt @1Kings:9:14 @And Hiram sendeth to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold . ylt @1Kings:9:15 @And this [is ] the matter of the tribute that king Solomon hath lifted up , to build the house of Jehovah , and his own house , and Millo , and the wall of Jerusalem , and Hazor , and Megiddo , and Gezer , ylt @1Kings:9:16 @(Pharaoh king of Egypt hath gone up and doth capture Gezer , and doth burn it with fire , and the Canaanite who is dwelling in the city he hath slain , and giveth it [with ] presents to his daughter , wife of Solomon .) ylt @1Kings:9:17 @And Solomon buildeth Gezer , and Beth-Horon the lower , ylt @1Kings:9:18 @and Baalath , and Tadmor in the wilderness , in the land ; ylt @1Kings:9:19 @and all the cities of stores that king Solomon hath , and the cities of the 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 . ylt @1Kings:9:20 @The whole of the people that is left of the Amorite , the Hittite , the Perizzite , the Hivite , and the Jebusite , who [are ] not of the sons of Israel -- ylt @1Kings:9:21 @their sons who are left behind them in the land , whom the sons of Israel have not been able to devote -- he hath even lifted up [on ] them a tribute of service unto this day . ylt @1Kings:9:22 @And out of the sons of Israel Solomon hath not appointed a servant , for they [are ] the men of war , and his servants , and his heads , and his captains , and the heads of his chariots , and his horsemen . ylt @1Kings:9:23 @These [are ] the heads of the officers who [are ] over the work of Solomon , fifty and five hundred , those ruling among the people who are labouring in the work . ylt @1Kings:9:24 @Only , the daughter of Pharaoh went up out of the city of David unto her house that [Solomon ] built for her ; then he built Millo . ylt @1Kings:9:25 @And Solomon caused to ascend , three times in a year , burnt-offerings and peace-offerings on the altar that he built to Jehovah , and he perfumed it with that which [is ] before Jehovah , and finished the house . ylt @1Kings:9:26 @And a navy hath king Solomon made in Ezion-Geber , that is beside Eloth , on the edge of the Sea of Suph , in the land of Edom . ylt @1Kings:9:27 @And Hiram sendeth in the navy his servants , shipmen knowing the sea , with servants of Solomon , ylt @1Kings:9:28 @and they come in to Ophir and take thence gold , four hundred and twenty talents , and bring [it ] in unto king Solomon .

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