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9 : 1 As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of theLordand the king's house andall that Solomon desired to build,
9 : 2 theLordappeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
9 : 3 And theLordsaid to him,I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built,by putting my name there forever.My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
9 : 4 And as for you, if you willwalk before me,as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules,
9 : 5 then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying,You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.
9 : 6 But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,
9 : 7 then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them,and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight,and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
9 : 8 And this house will become a heap of ruins.Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say,Why has theLorddone thus to this land and to this house?
9 : 9 Then they will say,Becausethey abandoned theLordtheir God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore theLordhas brought all this disaster on them.
9 : 10 At the end oftwenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of theLordand the king's house,
9 : 11 and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
9 : 12 But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, they did not please him.
9 : 13 Therefore he said,What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?So they are called the land ofCabul to this day.
9 : 14 Hiram had sent to the king 120 talentsof gold.
9 : 15 And this is the account ofthe forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of theLordand his own house andthe Millo and the wall of Jerusalem andHazor andMegiddo and Gezer
9 : 16 (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killedthe Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry tohis daughter, Solomon's wife;
9 : 17 so Solomon rebuilt Gezer) andLower Beth-horon
9 : 18 and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,
9 : 19 and all the store cities that Solomon had, andthe cities for his chariots, and the cities forhis horsemen, and whatever Solomondesired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
9 : 20 All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel&emdash;
9 : 21 their descendants who were left after them in the land,whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction&emdash;these Solomon drafted to beslaves, and so they are to this day.
9 : 22 Butof the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves. They were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.
9 : 23 These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work:550who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
9 : 24 ButPharaoh's daughter went up from the city of David toher own house that Solomon had built for her.Then he builtthe Millo.
9 : 25 Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he built to theLord, making offerings with itbefore theLord. So he finished the house.
9 : 26 King Solomon built a fleet of ships atEzion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
9 : 27 And Hiram sentwith the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon.
9 : 28 And they went toOphir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon.