 1 As Solomon finished building the house of the Lord and the king's house and all of Solomon's desire that he was pleased to do, 2 the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon. 3 The Lord said to him, I have heard your prayer and your cry that you have made before me. I have made this house that you have built holy, to put my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there perpetually. 4 If you will walk before me as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you will keep my statutes and my judgments, 5 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom on Israel forever, as I promised to David your father saying, There shall not be cut off to you a man on the throne of Israel. 6 If you shall at all turn from following me, you or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, 7 then I will cut off Israel from the face of the land that I have given them. And this house that I have made holy for my name I will cast out of my sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people. 8 As to this house that is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be amazed and will hiss. They will say, Why has the Lord done this to this land and to this house? 9 They shall answer, Because they left the Lord their God who brought out their fathers from the land of Egypt, and have taken hold on other gods and have worshiped them and served them. On account of this the Lord has brought on them all this evil. 10 At the end of 20 years, Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house. 11 King Hiram of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desires. Then King Solomon gave Hiram 20 cities in the land of Galilee. 12 Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him. They did not please him. 13 He said, What cities are these that you have given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul to this day. 14 Hiram sent to the king 120 talents of gold. 15 This is the reason for the labor force that King Solomon raised to build the house of the Lord and his own house and Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer. 16 For Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had gone up and had taken Gezer and had burned it with fire, and had slain the Canaanites who lived in the city. And he had given it for a present to his daughter, Solomon's wife. 17 Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the lower, 18 and Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land. 19 He built all the store cities that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. 20 All the people who were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel, 21 their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able to destroy completely, on those Solomon laid a tribute of bond service to this day. 22 But Solomon did not make any slave out of the children of Israel. But they were men of war, and his servants, and his rulers, and his commanders, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen. 23 These were the chief of the officers who were over Solomon's work, 550 who ruled over the people who labored in the work. 24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up from the city of David to her house that had been built for her. And he built Millo. 25 Three times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he had built to the Lord, and he burned incense on the altar that was before the Lord. And he finished the house. 26 King Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 27 Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. 28 They came to Ophir, and brought gold from there, 420 talents, and brought it to King Solomon.
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