When your people<n id="1" /> come to their senses<n id="2" /> in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, &#8216;We have sinned and gone astray;<n id="3" /> we have done evil.&#8217;

May he make us submissive,<n id="1" /> so we can follow all his instructions<n id="2" /> and obey<n id="3" /> the commandments, rules, and regulations he commanded our ancestors.

<t /><p class="bodytext">After Solomon finished building the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned,<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">After twenty years, during which Solomon built the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple and the royal palace,<n id="1" />

When Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the cities Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.<n id="1" />

Hiram asked,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Why did you give me these cities, my friend<n id="2" />?&#8221; He called that area the region of Cabul, a name which it has retained to this day.<n id="3" />

Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.<n id="1" />

These men were also in charge of Solomon&#8217;s work projects; there were a total of 550 men who supervised the workers.<n id="1" />

Solomon built the terrace as soon as Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter moved up from the city of David<n id="1" /> to the palace Solomon built for her.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">King Solomon also built ships<n id="1" /> in Ezion Geber, which is located near Elat in the land of Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.

Solomon answered all her questions; there was no question too complex for the king.<n id="1" />

the food in his banquet hall,<n id="1" /> his servants and attendants,<n id="2" /> their robes, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he presented in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, she was amazed.<n id="3" />

She said to the king, &#8220;The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight<n id="1" /> was true!

(Hiram&#8217;s fleet, which carried gold from Ophir, also brought from Ophir a very large quantity of fine timber and precious gems.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Solomon received 666 talents<n id="1" /> of gold per year,<n id="2" />

Everyone<n id="1" /> in the world wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom.<n id="2" />

The king made silver as plentiful<n id="1" /> in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was<n id="2" /> as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the lowlands.<n id="3" />

Furthermore,<n id="1" /> on the hill east of Jerusalem<n id="2" /> Solomon built a high place<n id="3" /> for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh<n id="4" /> and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom.<n id="5" />

and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods.<n id="1" /> But he did not obey<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s command.

But I will not tear away the entire kingdom; I will leave<n id="1" /> your son one tribe for my servant David&#8217;s sake and for the sake of my chosen city Jerusalem.&#8221;p>