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1 Kings 9 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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God's Promise and Warning

(2Ch 7:12–22 )

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:1 - Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires, which he had in mind were effected;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:2 - The Lord came to him again in a vision, as he had done at Gibeon;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:3 - And the Lord said to him, Your prayers and your requests for grace have come to my ears: I have made holy this house which you have made, and I have put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:4 - As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:5 - Then I will make the seat of your rule over Israel certain for ever, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be king in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:6 - But if you are turned from my ways, you or your children, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods and give them worship:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:7 - Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:8 - And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds; and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:9 - And their answer will be, Because they were turned away from the Lord their God, who took their fathers out of the land of Egypt; they took for themselves other gods and gave them worship and became their servants: that is why the Lord has sent all this evil on them.

Cities Given to Hiram

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:10 - Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11 - (Hiram, king of Tyre, had given Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees and gold, as much as he had need of,) King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:12 - But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns which Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:13 - And he said, What sort of towns are these which you have given me, my brother? So they were named the land of Cabul, to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:14 - And Hiram sent the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.
(2Ch 8:3–16 )

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:15 - Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:16 - Pharaoh, king of Egypt, came and took Gezer, burning it down and putting to death the Canaanites living in the town, and he gave it for a bride-offering to his daughter, Solomon's wife. ...

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:17 - ... and Solomon was the builder of Gezer and Beth-horon the lower,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:18 - And Baalath and Tamar in the waste land, in that land;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:19 - And all the store-towns and the towns which Solomon had for his war-carriages and for his horsemen, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:20 - As for the rest of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not children of Israel;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:21 - Their children who were still in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not been able to put to complete destruction, them did Solomon put to forced work, to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:22 - But Solomon did not put the children of Israel to forced work; they were the men of war, his servants, his captains, and his chiefs, captains of his war-carriages and of his horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:23 - These were the chiefs of the overseers of Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, in authority over the people who did the work.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:24 - At that time Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her: then he made the Millo.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:25 - Three times in the year it was Solomon's way to give burned offerings and peace-offerings on the altar he had made to the Lord, causing his fire-offering to go up on the altar before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:26 - And King Solomon made a sea-force of ships in Ezion-geber, by Eloth, on the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:27 - Hiram sent his servants, who were experienced seamen, in the sea-force with Solomon's men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:28 - And they came to Ophir, where they got four hundred and twenty talents of gold, and took it back to King Solomon.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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