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1.    And it came to pass when Solomon had completed the building  of the house of Jehovah, and the king`s house, and all  Solomon`s desire which he was pleased to do,
 
2.    that Jehovah appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had  appeared to him at Gibeon.
 
3.    And Jehovah said to him, I have heard thy prayer and thy  supplication which thou hast made before me: I have hallowed  this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for  ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
 
4.    And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy  father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do  according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my  statutes and mine ordinances;
 
5.    then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel  for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There  shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
 
6.    But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your  children, and will not keep my commandments, my statutes which  I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship  them;
 
7.    then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have  given them; and the house, which I have hallowed to my name,  will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and  a by word among all peoples;
 
8.    and this house, which is high, every one that passes by it  shall be astonished at, and shall hiss, and they shall say, Why  has Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?
 
9.    And they shall say, Because they forsook Jehovah their God,  who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and  have attached themselves to other gods, and have worshipped  them and served them; therefore has Jehovah brought upon them  all this evil.
 
10.    And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when  Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the  king`s house,
 
11.    Hiram the king of Tyre having furnished Solomon with  cedar-trees and cypress-trees, and with gold, according to all  his desire, -- that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities  in the land of Galilee.
 
12.    And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon  had given him; and they did not please him.
 
13.    And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given  me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul to this  day.
 
14.    And Hiram had sent to the king one hundred and twenty  talents of gold.
 
15.    And this is the account of the levy which king Solomon  raised, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and  Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and  Gezer.
 
16.    -- Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer, and  burned it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the  city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon`s wife.
 
17.    -- And Solomon built Gezer, and lower Beth-horon,
 
18.    and Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
 
19.    and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and cities for  chariots, and cities for the horsemen, and that which Solomon  desired to build in Jerusalem, and on Lebanon, and in all the  land of his dominion.
 
20.    All the people that were left of the Amorites, the  Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who  were not of the children of Israel,
 
21.    their children that were left after them in the land, whom  the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, upon  them did Solomon impose a tribute of bondservice until this  day.
 
22.    But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen;  but they were men of war, and his servants, and his chiefs, and  his captains, and captains of his chariots, and his horsemen.
 
23.    These were the chief superintendents that were over  Solomon`s work, five hundred and fifty, that ruled over the  people that wrought in the work.
 
24.    But Pharaoh`s daughter came up out of the city of David to  her house which he had built for her: then he built Millo.
 
25.    And three times in the year did Solomon offer up  burnt-offerings and peace-offerings upon the altar that he had  built to Jehovah, and he burned incense upon that which was  before Jehovah. So he finished the house.
 
26.    And king Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion-Geber,  which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land  of Edom.
 
27.    And Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, shipmen that had  knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon;
 
28.    and they went to Ophir, and fetched thence gold, four  hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.