1It happened, 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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2 Chronicles 7:11, 2 Chronicles 8:6, 2 Chronicles 7:11, 2 Chronicles 8:6, 1 Kings 9:19

2that the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

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1 Kings 3:5, 1 Kings 3:5, 2 Chronicles 7:12, 2 Chronicles 7:12, 1 Kings 11:9

3The Lord said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

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2 Kings 20:5, Psalms 10:17, 1 John 5:14, 1 Kings 8:29, 2 Kings 20:5

4As for you, 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 will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

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1 Kings 15:5, 1 Kings 15:5, 1 Kings 3:14, 1 Kings 3:14, 1 Kings 11:6

5then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, according as I promised to David your father, saying, 'There shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.'

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1 Kings 2:4, 1 Kings 2:4, 1 Kings 6:12, 1 Kings 6:12, 2 Samuel 7:16

6But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

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1 Chronicles 28:9, 2 Samuel 7:14, 2 Samuel 7:16, 1 Chronicles 28:9, 2 Samuel 7:14

7then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

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Psalms 44:14, Jeremiah 24:9, Psalms 44:14, Jeremiah 24:9, Deuteronomy 4:26

8Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, 'Why has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?'

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Deuteronomy 29:24, Deuteronomy 29:26, Jeremiah 22:8, Jeremiah 22:9, Deuteronomy 29:24

9and they shall answer, 'Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold of other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore the Lord has brought all this disaster on them.'"

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Jeremiah 2:19, Jeremiah 2:19, Jeremiah 5:19, Jeremiah 5:19, 2 Chronicles 7:22

10It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house

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1 Kings 6:37, 1 Kings 7:1, 1 Kings 6:37, 1 Kings 7:1, 2 Chronicles 8:1

11(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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2 Chronicles 8:2, 2 Chronicles 8:2, 1 Kings 5:6, 1 Kings 5:10, 2 Chronicles 2:8

12Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they did not please him.

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Judges 14:3, Numbers 22:34, Judges 14:3, Numbers 22:34

13He said, "What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?" He called them the land of Cabul to this day.

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Joshua 19:27, Joshua 19:27, Amos 1:9, Amos 1:9, 1 Kings 5:1

14Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.

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1 Kings 9:11, 1 Kings 9:11, 1 Kings 10:21, 1 Kings 10:10, 1 Kings 9:28

15This is the reason of the levy which 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.

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2 Samuel 5:9, 1 Kings 9:24, Joshua 17:11, 1 Kings 5:13, 2 Samuel 5:9

16Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a portion to his daughter, Solomon's wife.

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1 Kings 3:1, 1 Kings 3:1, 1 Kings 9:24, 1 Kings 7:8, Joshua 16:10

17Solomon built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower,

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Joshua 16:3, Joshua 16:3, Joshua 21:22, Joshua 21:22, Joshua 10:10

18and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,

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Joshua 19:44, Joshua 19:44, 2 Chronicles 8:4, 2 Chronicles 8:4

19and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

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1 Kings 9:1, 1 Kings 9:1, 1 Kings 10:26, 2 Chronicles 1:14, Exodus 1:11

20As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;

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2 Chronicles 8:7, 2 Chronicles 8:18, Genesis 15:19, Genesis 15:21, Exodus 23:23

21their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day.

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Joshua 17:12, Judges 1:21, Joshua 15:63, Joshua 17:12, Judges 1:21

22But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

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Leviticus 25:39, Leviticus 25:39, 1 Samuel 8:11, 1 Samuel 8:12, 1 Kings 4:1

23These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.

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1 Kings 5:16, 1 Kings 5:16, 2 Chronicles 8:10, 2 Chronicles 8:10, 2 Chronicles 2:18

24But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her: then he built Millo.

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2 Chronicles 32:5, 1 Kings 11:27, 1 Kings 7:8, 2 Samuel 5:9, 2 Chronicles 32:5

25Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to the Lord three times a year, burning incense with them, on the altar that was before the Lord. So he finished the house.

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Exodus 23:14, Exodus 23:17, Deuteronomy 16:16, 2 Chronicles 8:16, 2 Chronicles 8:12

26King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

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1 Kings 22:48, 1 Kings 22:48, Deuteronomy 2:8, Numbers 33:35, Deuteronomy 2:8

27Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

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1 Kings 10:11, 1 Kings 5:9, 1 Kings 5:6, 1 Kings 10:11, 1 Kings 5:9

28They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

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2 Chronicles 8:18, 1 Chronicles 29:4, 2 Chronicles 8:18, 1 Chronicles 29:4, 1 Kings 10:11