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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 .
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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 .
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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 ?
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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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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 Megiddo ,
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 Bethhoron the nether ,
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And Baalath ,
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 ,
Perizzites ,
Hivites ,
and Jebusites ,
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 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 Eziongeber ,
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 .