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Texts -- 1 Kings 9:6-28 (NET)

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9:6 “But if you or your sons ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep , and decide to serve and worship other gods , 9:7 then I will remove Israel from the land I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence , and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed among all the nations . 9:8 This temple will become a heap of ruins ; everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss out their scorn , saying , ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple ?’ 9:9 Others will then answer , ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God , who led their ancestors out of Egypt . They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served . That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”
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9:10 After twenty years , during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and the royal palace , 9:11 King Solomon gave King Hiram of Tyre twenty cities in the region of Galilee , because Hiram had supplied Solomon with cedars , evergreens , and all the gold he wanted . 9:12 When Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the cities Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them. 9:13 Hiram asked , “Why did you give me these cities , my friend ?” He called that area the region of Cabul , a name which it has retained to this day . 9:14 Hiram had sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold . 9:15 Here are the details concerning the work crews King Solomon conscripted to build the Lord’s temple , his palace , the terrace , the wall of Jerusalem , and the cities of Hazor , Megiddo , and Gezer . 9:16 (Pharaoh , king of Egypt , had attacked and captured Gezer . He burned it and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city . He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter , who had married Solomon .) 9:17 Solomon built up Gezer , lower Beth Horon , 9:18 Baalath , Tadmor in the wilderness , 9:19 all the storage cities that belonged to him , and the cities where chariots and horses were kept. He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem , Lebanon , and throughout his entire kingdom . 9:20 Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Amorites , Hittites , Perizzites , Hivites , and Jebusites . 9:21 Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out completely ). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews , and they continue in that role to this very day . 9:22 Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews ; the Israelites served as his soldiers , attendants , officers , charioteers , and commanders of his chariot forces . 9:23 These men were also in charge of Solomon’s work projects; there were a total of 550 men who supervised the workers . 9:24 Solomon built the terrace as soon as Pharaoh’s daughter moved up from the city of David to the palace Solomon built for her. 9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord , burning incense along with them before the Lord . He made the temple his official worship place. 9:26 King Solomon also built ships in Ezion Geber , which is located near Elat in the land of Edom , on the shore of the Red Sea . 9:27 Hiram sent his fleet and some of his sailors , who were well acquainted with the sea , to serve with Solomon’s men . 9:28 They sailed to Ophir , took from there four hundred twenty talents of gold , and then brought them to King Solomon .

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