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1 Kings chapter 9

When Solomon had finished building , , and everything else he had wanted to build,Yahweh to Solomon a second time — just as he had appeared to him at .Yahweh told him: “I have heard your prayer and your plea that you brought before me. I have you built , putting there permanently. will be there every single day.”“As for you — if you the way your father David walked, with an and , following everything I have commanded you and keeping my rules and my decisions,”“then I will over Israel permanently, just as I promised your father David when I said, ‘You will never lack a man on the throne of Israel.’”“But if you or your descendants and do not keep my commands and my rules that I set in front of you, and instead go and —““then I will from the land I gave them, and this house that I , I will throw out of my sight. Israel will become among all the peoples.”“And this house — — everyone passing by it will . They will ask, ‘Why did Yahweh do this to this land and to this house?’”“And people will answer, ‘Because they Yahweh their God, who , and they other gods and bowed down to them and served them — that is why Yahweh brought all this disaster on them.’”At the end of the during which Solomon had built the two buildings — Yahweh’s house and the royal palace —— had supplied Solomon with , and gold, as much as he wanted — so King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in .But when Hiram came from Tyre to inspect the cities Solomon had given him, .He said, “What kind of cities are these you’ve given me, ?” And he named them the land of — and that name has stuck to this day.Now Hiram had sent the king .Here is the account of the that King Solomon conscripted to build Yahweh’s house, his own palace, , the wall of Jerusalem, and the cities of . had attacked and captured Gezer, burned it down, and killed the Canaanites living in the city. Then he gave it as to his daughter — Solomon’s wife.So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, along with ,, and — within the land —all of Solomon’s , the cities for his , the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon wanted to build — in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom.As for all the people remaining from the — who were not Israelites —their descendants who remained in the land after them — the ones the Israelites had not been able to — Solomon conscripted them for , and they remain so to this day.But Solomon of any Israelites. Instead, they served as his soldiers, his officials, his , his captains, and the officers over his chariots and horsemen.These were the over Solomon’s projects: five hundred and fifty of them overseeing the people doing the work.As soon as moved up from to the house Solomon had built for her, he built the Millo. Solomon offered on the altar he had built for Yahweh, and he before Yahweh. So he .King Solomon also built at , which is near Elath on the shore of , in the land of Edom.Hiram sent his own men with the fleet — — to serve alongside Solomon’s men.They sailed to and brought back , which they delivered to King Solomon.