1 Kings 3:1-10:29
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v Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into w the city of David until he had finished x building his own house y and the house of the Lord z and the wall around Jerusalem.
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a The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the Lord.
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Solomon b loved the Lord, c walking in the statutes of David his father, only he sacrificed and made offerings at the high places.
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And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, d for that was the great high place. Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
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e At Gibeon f the Lord appeared to Solomon g in a dream by night, and God said, "Ask what I shall give you."
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And Solomon said, "You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant David my father, because h he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward you. And you have kept for him this great and steadfast love and i have given him a son to sit on his throne this day.
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And now, O Lord my God, j you have made your servant king in place of David my father, k although I am but a little child. I do not know l how to go out or come in.
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m And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, n too many to be numbered or counted for multitude.
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o Give your servant therefore an understanding mind p to govern your people, that I may q discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?"
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It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this.
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And God said to him, "Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right,
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behold, r I now do according to your word. Behold, s I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.
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t I give you also what you have not asked, u both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days.
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And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, v as your father David walked, then w I will lengthen your days."
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And Solomon x awoke, and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up burnt offerings and peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.
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Then two prostitutes came to the king y and stood before him.
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The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house.
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Then on the third day after I gave birth, this woman also gave birth. And we were alone. There was no one else with us in the house; only we two were in the house.
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And this woman's son died in the night, because she lay on him.
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And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid him at her breast, and laid her dead son at my breast.
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When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead. But when I looked at him closely in the morning, behold, he was not the child that I had borne."
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But the other woman said, "No, the living child is mine, and the dead child is yours." The first said, "No, the dead child is yours, and the living child is mine." Thus they spoke before the king.
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Then the king said, "The one says, 'This is my son that is alive, and your son is dead'; and the other says, 'No; but your son is dead, and my son is the living one.'"
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And the king said, "Bring me a sword." So a sword was brought before the king.
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And the king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other."
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Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because z her heart yearned for her son, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death." But the other said, "He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him."
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Then the king answered and said, "Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means put him to death; she is his mother."
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And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that a the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.
1 Kings 4
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King Solomon was king over all Israel,
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and these were his high officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was b the priest;
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Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; c Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
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d Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the army; e Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
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Azariah the son of Nathan was over f the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and g king's friend;
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Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and h Adoniram the son of Abda was in charge of i the forced labor.
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Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for one month in the year.
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These were their names: Ben-hur, in j the hill country of Ephraim;
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Ben-deker, in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elonbeth-hanan;
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Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him belonged Socoh and all the land of Hepher);
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Ben-abinadab, in all k Naphath-dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);
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Baana the son of Ahilud, in l Taanach, Megiddo, and all l Beth-shean that is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, and from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the other side of Jokmeam;
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Ben-geber, m in Ramoth-gilead (he had n the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and he had o the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
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Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
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Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he had taken Basemath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);
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Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
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Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
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p Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
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Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, q the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. And there was one governor who was over the land.
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Judah and Israel were as many r as the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy.
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s Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the t Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. u They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
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Solomon's provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour and sixty cors of meal,
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ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.
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For he had dominion over all the region west of the Euphrates from Tiphsah to v Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphrates. w And he had peace on all sides around him.
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And Judah and Israel x lived in safety, y from Dan even to Beersheba, z every man under his vine and under his fig tree, all the days of Solomon.
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a Solomon also had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.
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And those officers supplied provisions for King Solomon, and for all who came to King Solomon's table, each one in his month. They let nothing be lacking.
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Barley also and straw for the horses and b swift steeds they brought to the place where it was required, each according to his duty.
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c And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind d like the sand on the seashore,
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so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all e the people of the east f and all the wisdom of Egypt.
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For he was c wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all the surrounding nations.
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g He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, h and his songs were 1,005.
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He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall. He spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fish.
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And people of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from i all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
1 Kings 5
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Now j Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, k for Hiram always loved David.
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And Solomon sent word to Hiram,
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l "You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the Lord his God m because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.
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n But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side. There is neither adversary nor misfortune.
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And so I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, o as the Lord said to David my father, 'Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.'
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Now therefore command that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. And my servants will join your servants, and I will pay you for your servants such wages as you set, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians."
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As soon as Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly and said, "Blessed be the Lord this day, who has given to David a wise son to be over this great people."
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And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, "I have heard the message that you have sent to me. I am ready to do all you desire in the matter of cedar and cypress timber.
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My servants shall bring it down to the sea from Lebanon, and I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct. And I will have them broken up there, and you shall receive it. And you shall meet my wishes p by providing food for my household."
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So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired,
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while Solomon gave Hiram 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, and 20,000 cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.
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And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, q as he promised him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
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King Solomon drafted r forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men.
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And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. s Adoniram was in charge of the draft.
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Solomon also t had 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country,
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besides Solomon's 3,300 u chief officers who were over the work, v who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
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At the king's command w they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.
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So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and x the men of Gebal did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.
1 Kings 6
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y In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, z he began to build the house of the Lord.
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a The house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
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The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.
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And b he made for the house windows with recessed frames.
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c He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and d the inner sanctuary. And he made e side chambers all around.
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The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.
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When the house was built, f it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.
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The entrance for the lowest story was on the south side of the house, and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.
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g So he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.
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He built the structure against the whole house, five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.
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Now the word of the Lord came to Solomon,
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"Concerning this house that you are building, h if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, i which I spoke to David your father.
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And j I will dwell among the children of Israel k and will not forsake my people Israel."
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l So Solomon built the house and finished it.
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He lined the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar. From the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood, m and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.
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n He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as o the Most Holy Place.
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The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.
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The cedar within the house was carved in the form of p gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen.
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The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
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The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid an altar of cedar.
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And Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold, and he drew chains of gold across, in front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.
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And he overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. q Also the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.
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r In the inner sanctuary s he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high.
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Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the length of the other wing of the cherub; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.
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The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form.
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The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.
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He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house. t And the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one touched the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; their other wings touched each other in the middle of the house.
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And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
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Around all the walls of the house he carved engraved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms.
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The floor of the house he overlaid with gold in the inner and outer rooms.
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For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors of olivewood; the lintel and the doorposts were five-sided.
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He covered the two doors of olivewood with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. He overlaid them with gold and spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.
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So also he made for the entrance to the nave doorposts of olivewood, in the form of a square,
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and two doors of cypress wood. u The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
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On them he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the carved work.
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v He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and one course of cedar beams.
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w In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, in the month of Ziv.
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And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.
1 Kings 7
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Solomon was x building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.
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He built y the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was a hundred cubits and its breadth fifty cubits and its height thirty cubits, and it was built on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.
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And it was covered with cedar above the chambers that were on the forty-five pillars, fifteen in each row.
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There were window frames in three rows, and window opposite window in three tiers.
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All the doorways and windows had square frames, and window was opposite window in three tiers.
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And he made z the Hall of Pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits. There was a porch in front with pillars, and a a canopy in front of them.
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And he made the Hall of the Throne where he was to pronounce judgment, even the Hall of Judgment. b It was finished with cedar from floor to rafters.
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His own house where he was to dwell, in the other court back of the hall, was of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter c whom he had taken in marriage.
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All these were made of costly stones, cut according to measure, sawed with saws, back and front, even from the foundation to the coping, and from the outside to the great court.
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The foundation was of costly stones, huge stones, stones of eight and ten cubits.
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And above were costly stones, cut according to measurement, and cedar.
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d The great court had three courses of cut stone all around, and a course of cedar beams; so had the inner court of the house of the Lord and e the vestibule of the house.
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And King Solomon sent and brought f Hiram from Tyre.
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He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze. And g he was full of wisdom, understanding, and skill for making any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work.
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h He cast i two pillars of bronze. j Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference. It was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers. The second pillar was the same.
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He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of the one capital was five cubits, and j the height of the other capital was five cubits.
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There were lattices of checker work with wreaths of chain work for the capitals on the tops of the pillars, a lattice for the one capital and a lattice for the other capital.
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Likewise he made pomegranates in two rows around the one latticework to cover the capital that was on the top of the pillar, and he did the same with the other capital.
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Now the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars in the vestibule were of lily-work, four cubits.
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The capitals were on the two pillars and also above the rounded projection which was beside the latticework. There were k two hundred pomegranates in two rows all around, and so with the other capital.
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l He set up the pillars at the vestibule of the temple. He set up the pillar on the south and called its name Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the north and called its name Boaz.
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And on the tops of the pillars was lily-work. Thus the work of the pillars was finished.
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m Then he made n the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
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Under its brim were o gourds, for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.
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It stood on p twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on them, and all their rear parts were inward.
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Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.
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He also made the q ten stands of bronze. Each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.
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This was the construction of the stands: they had panels, and the panels were set in the frames,
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and on the panels that were set in the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the frames, both above and below the lions and oxen, there were wreaths of beveled work.
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Moreover, each stand had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze, and at the four corners were supports for a basin. The supports were cast with wreaths at the side of each.
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Its opening was within a crown that projected upward one cubit. Its opening was round, as a pedestal is made, a cubit and a half deep. At its opening there were carvings, and its panels were square, not round.
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And the four wheels were underneath the panels. The axles of the wheels were of one piece with the stands, and the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.
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The wheels were made like a chariot wheel; their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast.
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There were four supports at the four corners of each stand. The supports were of one piece with the stands.
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And on the top of the stand there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the stand its stays and its panels were of one piece with it.
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And on the surfaces of its stays and on its panels, he carved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths all around.
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After this manner he made q the ten stands. All of them were cast alike, of the same measure and the same form.
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And he made r ten basins of bronze. Each basin held forty baths, each basin measured four cubits, and there was a basin for each of the ten stands.
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And he set the stands, five on the south side of the house, and five on the north side of the house. And he set the sea at the southeast corner of the house.
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s Hiram also made t the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished all the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of the Lord:
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the two pillars, the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars, and the two u latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars;
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and the v four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars;
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the ten stands, and the ten basins on the stands;
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and w the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath the sea.
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Now x the pots, the shovels, and the basins, all these vessels in the house of the Lord, which Hiram made for King Solomon, were of burnished bronze.
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In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between y Succoth and z Zarethan.
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And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; a the weight of the bronze was not ascertained.
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So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the Lord: b the golden altar, c the golden table for d the bread of the Presence,
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e the lampstands of pure gold, five on the south side and five on the north, before the inner sanctuary; f the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;
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the cups, snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and g fire pans, of pure gold; and the sockets of gold, for the doors of the innermost part of the house, h the Most Holy Place, and for the doors of the nave of the temple.
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Thus all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in i the things that David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and stored them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.
1 Kings 8
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j Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, k the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, l to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of m the city of David, which is Zion.
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And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon at n the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
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And all the elders of Israel came, and o the priests took up the ark.
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And they brought up the ark of the Lord, p the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up.
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And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were with him before the ark, q sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
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r Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord s to its place in t the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.
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For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles.
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u And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place before t the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day.
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There was nothing in the ark except v the two tablets of stone that Moses put there at Horeb, where w the Lord made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
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And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, x a cloud filled the house of the Lord,
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so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.
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y Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he would dwell z in thick darkness.
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a I have indeed built you an exalted house, b a place for you to dwell in forever."
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Then the king turned around and c blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.
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And he said, d "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled e what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying,
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f 'Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, g that my name might be there. h But I chose David to be over my people Israel.'
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i Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
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But the Lord said to David my father, 'Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.
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j Nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.'
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Now the Lord has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, k as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
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And there I have provided a place for the ark, l in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt."
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Then Solomon m stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and n spread out his hands toward heaven,
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and said, "O Lord, God of Israel, o there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, p keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart,
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who have kept with your servant David my father what you declared to him. e You spoke with your mouth, and with your hand have fulfilled it this day.
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Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, q 'You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.'
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r Now therefore, O God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David my father.
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"But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, s heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
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Yet have regard to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O Lord my God, listening to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you this day,
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t that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you have said, u 'My name shall be there,' that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.
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And listen to the plea of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen in heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.
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"If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take v an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,
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then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, w condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
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x "When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and y if they turn again to you and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house,
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then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to their fathers.
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z "When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,
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then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when a you teach them b the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.
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c "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
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whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house,
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then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways ( d for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),
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that they may fear you e all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.
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"Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for your name's sake
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(for they shall hear of your great name f and your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house,
43
hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order g that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and h fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.
44
"If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the Lord i toward the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,
45
then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.
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"If they sin against you - j for there is no one who does not sin - and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive k to the land of the enemy, far off or near,
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yet l if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, m 'We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,'
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n if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you o toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name,
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then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause
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and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions that they have committed against you, and p grant them compassion in the sight of those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them
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( q for they are your people, and your heritage, which you brought out of Egypt, r from the midst of the iron furnace).
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s Let your eyes be open to the plea of your servant and to the plea of your people Israel, giving ear to them whenever they call to you.
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For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your heritage, t as you declared through Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God."
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u Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and plea to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, where he had v knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven.
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And he stood and w blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
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"Blessed be the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. x Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant.
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The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. y May he not leave us or forsake us,
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that he may z incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his rules, which he commanded our fathers.
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Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires,
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that a all the peoples of the earth may know that b the Lord is God; there is no other.
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c Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the Lord our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day."
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d Then e the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.
63
Solomon offered as peace offerings to the Lord 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.
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The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord, for there he offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings, because f the bronze altar that was before the Lord was too small to receive the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings.
65
So Solomon held g the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from h Lebo-hamath to i the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days.
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On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king and went to their homes joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people.
1 Kings 9
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j As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord k and the king's house and l all that Solomon desired to build,
2
m the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
3
And the Lord said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, n by putting my name there forever. o My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
4
And as for you, if you will p walk before me, q as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules,
5
r then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, 'You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.'
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s But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,
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t then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, u and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, v and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
8
And this house will become a heap of ruins. Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, w 'Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?'
9
Then they will say, 'Because x they abandoned the Lord their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore the Lord has brought all this disaster on them.'"
10
y At the end of z twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,
11
and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12
But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, they did not please him.
13
Therefore he said, "What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?" So they are called the land of a Cabul to this day.
14
Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents of gold.
15
And this is the account of b the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the Lord and his own house and c the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and d Hazor and e Megiddo and Gezer
16
(Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed f the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to g his daughter, Solomon's wife;
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so Solomon rebuilt Gezer) and h Lower Beth-horon
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and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,
19
and all the store cities that Solomon had, and i the cities for his chariots, and the cities for j his horsemen, and whatever Solomon k desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
20
All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel -
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l their descendants who were left after them in the land, m whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction - n these Solomon drafted to be o slaves, and so they are to this day.
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But p of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves. They were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.
23
These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work: q 550 r who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
24
But g Pharaoh's daughter went up from the city of David to s her own house that Solomon had built for her. t Then he built u the Millo.
25
Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he built to the Lord, making offerings with it before the Lord. So he finished the house.
26
King Solomon built a fleet of ships at v Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
27
And Hiram sent w with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon.
28
And they went to x Ophir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon.
1 Kings 10
1
y Now when z the queen of a Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came b to test him with hard questions.
2
She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels c bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.
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And Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing hidden from the king that he could not explain to her.
4
And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
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the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, their clothing, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of the Lord, there was no more breath in her.
6
And she said to the king, "The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom,
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but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, the half was not told me. Your wisdom and prosperity surpass the report that I heard.
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e Happy are your men! Happy are your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!
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f Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! g Because the Lord loved Israel forever, he has made you king, h that you may execute justice and righteousness."
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i Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices and precious stones. Never again came such an abundance of spices as these that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
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Moreover, j the fleet of Hiram, which brought k gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir a very great amount of almug wood and precious stones.
12
And the king made of the almug wood supports for the house of the Lord and for the king's house, also lyres and harps for the singers. No such almug wood has come or been seen to this day.
13
And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked besides what was given her by the bounty of King Solomon. So she turned and went back to her own land with her servants.
14
l Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,
15
besides that which came from the explorers and from the business of the merchants, and from all the kings of the west and from the governors of the land.
16
King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold; 600 shekels of gold went into each shield.
17
And he made 300 m shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in n the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
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The king also made a great ivory throne and overlaid it with the finest gold.
19
The throne had six steps, and at the back of the throne was a calf's head, and on each side of the seat were armrests and two lions standing beside the armrests,
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while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. The like of it was never made in any kingdom.
21
All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of n the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver; silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.
22
For the king had o a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet of ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
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p Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
24
And the whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.
25
Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
26
q And Solomon gathered together r chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the s chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
27
And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as t the sycamore of the Shephelah.
28
And Solomon's u import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king's traders received them from Kue at a price.
29
A chariot could be imported from Egypt for 600 shekels of silver and a horse for 150, and so through the king's traders they were exported to all the kings of v the Hittites and the kings of Syria.
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1 Kings 7:8
His own house where he was to dwell, in the other court back of the hall, was of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter whom he had taken in marriage.
1 Kings 9:16
(Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
1 Kings 9:24
But Pharaoh's daughter went up from the city of David to her own house that Solomon had built for her. Then he built the Millo.
2 Chronicles 8:11
Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the city of David to the house that he had built for her, for he said, "My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, for the places to which the ark of the Lord has come are holy.
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1 Kings 2:10
Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.
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1 Kings 7:1
Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.
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1 Kings 6:1
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.
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1 Kings 9:15
And this is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the Lord and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer
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1 Kings 22:43
He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord. Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
Deuteronomy 12:2 - 3
You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
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Deuteronomy 6:5
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 30:16
If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Deuteronomy 30:20
Loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Psalms 31:23
Love the Lord, all you his saints! The Lord preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.
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1 Kings 3:6
And Solomon said, "You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant David my father, because he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward you. And you have kept for him this great and steadfast love and have given him a son to sit on his throne this day.
1 Kings 3:14
And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.
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2 Chronicles 1:3
And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness, was there.
2 Chronicles 1:6
And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the Lord, which was at the tent of meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it.
2 Chronicles 1:13
So Solomon came from the high place at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem. And he reigned over Israel.
1 Chronicles 16:39
And he left Zadok the priest and his brothers the priests before the tabernacle of the Lord in the high place that was at Gibeon
1 Chronicles 21:29
For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
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1 Kings 3:5 - 14
At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, "Ask what I shall give you.
2 Chronicles 1:7 - 12
In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, "Ask what I shall give you.
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1 Kings 9:2
The Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
1 Kings 11:9
And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice
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Numbers 12:6
And he said, "Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.
Matthew 1:20
But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 2:13
Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.
Matthew 2:19
But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt.
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1 Kings 2:4
That the Lord may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.
1 Kings 9:4
And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules.
Psalms 15:2
He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart.
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1 Kings 1:48
And the king also said, 'Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has granted someone to sit on my throne this day, my own eyes seeing it.'
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1 Chronicles 28:5
And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons) he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
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1 Chronicles 29:1
And David the king said to all the assembly, "Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is young and inexperienced, and the work is great, for the palace will not be for man but for the Lord God.
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Numbers 27:17
Who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be as sheep that have no shepherd.
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Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be.
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Proverbs 2:6
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 2:9
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path.
James 1:5
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
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Psalms 72:1 - 2
Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son!
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2 Samuel 14:17
And your servant thought, 'The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,' for my lord the king is like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The Lord your God be with you!
Isaiah 7:15
He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.
Hebrews 5:14
But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
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1 John 5:14 - 15
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
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1 Kings 4:29 - 31
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind like the sand on the seashore.
1 Kings 5:12
And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
1 Kings 10:23 - 24
Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 1:16
I said in my heart, "I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
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Matthew 6:33
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
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1 Kings 4:21 - 24
Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
1 Kings 10:23
Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
1 Kings 10:27
And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.
Proverbs 3:16
Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
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1 Kings 3:6
And Solomon said, "You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant David my father, because he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward you. And you have kept for him this great and steadfast love and have given him a son to sit on his throne this day.
1 Kings 15:5
Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
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Psalms 91:16
With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.
Proverbs 3:2
For length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.
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Genesis 41:7
And the thin ears swallowed up the seven plump, full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
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Numbers 27:2
And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the chiefs and all the congregation, at the entrance of the tent of meeting, saying.
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Genesis 43:30
Then Joseph hurried out, for his compassion grew warm for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there.
Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he my darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the Lord.
Isaiah 49:15
Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
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1 Kings 3:9
Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?
1 Kings 3:11 - 12
And God said to him, "Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right.
Ezra 7:25
And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. And those who do not know them, you shall teach.
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1 Chronicles 6:10
And Johanan fathered Azariah ( it was he who served as priest in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem).
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2 Samuel 8:16
Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder.
2 Samuel 20:24
And Adoram was in charge of the forced labor; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder.
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1 Kings 2:35
The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada over the army in place of Joab, and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.
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2 Samuel 20:25
And Sheva was secretary; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests.
1 Kings 2:27
So Solomon expelled Abiathar from being priest to the Lord, thus fulfilling the word of the Lord that he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
1 Kings 2:35
The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada over the army in place of Joab, and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.
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1 Kings 4:7
Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for one month in the year.
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2 Samuel 15:37
So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city, just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 16:16
And when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, "Long live the king! Long live the king!
1 Chronicles 27:33
Ahithophel was the king's counselor, and Hushai the Archite was the king's friend.
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1 Kings 5:14
And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the draft.
1 Kings 12:18
Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam hurried to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 20:24
And Adoram was in charge of the forced labor; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder.
2 Chronicles 10:18
Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and the people of Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam quickly mounted his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.
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1 Kings 9:15
And this is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the Lord and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer
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Joshua 24:33
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
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Joshua 11:2
And to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphoth-dor on the west.
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Joshua 17:11
Also in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Naphath.
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Joshua 17:11
Also in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Naphath.
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1 Kings 22:3
And the king of Israel said to his servants, "Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, and we keep quiet and do not take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?
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Numbers 32:41
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair.
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Deuteronomy 3:4
And we took all his cities at that time - there was not a city that we did not take from them - sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
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1 Kings 1:8
But Zadok the priest and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei and David's mighty men were not with Adonijah.
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Deuteronomy 3:8 - 10
So we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon
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Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies.
1 Kings 3:8
And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, too many to be numbered or counted for multitude.
2 Chronicles 1:9
O Lord God, let your word to David my father be now fulfilled, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
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2 Chronicles 9:26
And he ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt.
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Genesis 15:18
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.
Exodus 23:31
And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
Joshua 1:4
From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.
Psalms 72:8
May he have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth!
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Psalms 68:29
Because of your temple at Jerusalem kings shall bear gifts to you.
Psalms 72:10 - 11
May the kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands render him tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts!
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Genesis 10:19
And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
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1 Chronicles 22:9
Behold, a son shall be born to you who shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his surrounding enemies. For his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days.
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Jeremiah 23:6
In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: 'The Lord is our righteousness.
Jeremiah 32:37
Behold, I will gather them from all the countries to which I drove them in my anger and my wrath and in great indignation. I will bring them back to this place, and I will make them dwell in safety.
Ezekiel 28:26
And they shall dwell securely in it, and they shall build houses and plant vineyards. They shall dwell securely, when I execute judgments upon all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.
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2 Samuel 3:10
To transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.
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Micah 4:4
But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.
Zechariah 3:10
In that day, declares the Lord of hosts, every one of you will invite his neighbor to come under his vine and under his fig tree.
2 Kings 18:31
Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: 'Make your peace with me and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern.
Isaiah 36:16
Do not listen to Hezekiah. For thus says the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern.
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1 Kings 10:26
And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 1:14
Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 9:25
And Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
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Esther 8:10
And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king's signet ring. Then he sent the letters by mounted couriers riding on swift horses that were used in the king's service, bred from the royal stud.
Esther 8:14
So the couriers, mounted on their swift horses that were used in the king's service, rode out hurriedly, urged by the king's command. And the decree was issued in Susa the citadel.
Micah 1:13
Harness the steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish; it was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for in you were found the transgressions of Israel.
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1 Kings 3:12
Behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.
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1 Kings 4:20
Judah and Israel were as many as the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy.
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Judges 6:3
For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.
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Acts 7:22
And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.
Isaiah 19:11
The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings"?
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1 Kings 4:29
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind like the sand on the seashore.
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Proverbs 1:1
The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
Ecclesiastes 12:9
Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs with great care.
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Song of Solomon 1:1
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.
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2 Chronicles 9:23
And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.
1 Kings 10:1
Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions.
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2 Chronicles 2:3
And Solomon sent word to Hiram the king of Tyre: "As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedar to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me.
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2 Samuel 5:11
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house.
1 Chronicles 14:1
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also masons and carpenters to build a house for him.
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1 Kings 5:3 - 11
You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.
2 Chronicles 2:3 - 16
And Solomon sent word to Hiram the king of Tyre: "As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedar to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me.
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1 Chronicles 22:8
But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 'You have shed much blood and have waged great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed so much blood before me on the earth.
1 Chronicles 28:3
But God said to me, 'You may not build a house for my name, for you are a man of war and have shed blood.
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1 Kings 4:24
For he had dominion over all the region west of the Euphrates from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphrates. And he had peace on all sides around him.
1 Chronicles 22:9
Behold, a son shall be born to you who shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his surrounding enemies. For his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days.
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2 Samuel 7:13
He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
1 Chronicles 17:12
He shall build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever.
1 Chronicles 22:10
He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.
1 Chronicles 28:6
He said to me, 'It is Solomon your son who shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
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Ezra 3:7
So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus king of Persia.
Ezekiel 27:17
Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, meal, honey, oil, and balm.
Acts 12:20
Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they came to him with one accord, and having persuaded Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king's country for food.
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1 Kings 3:12
Behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.
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1 Kings 4:6
Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram the son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.
1 Kings 9:15
And this is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the Lord and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer
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1 Kings 4:6
Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram the son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.
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2 Chronicles 2:18
Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.
1 Kings 9:20 - 22
All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel -
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1 Kings 4:5
Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and king's friend.
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1 Kings 9:23
These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work: 550 who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
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1 Kings 6:7
When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.
1 Chronicles 22:2
David commanded to gather together the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to prepare dressed stones for building the house of God.
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Joshua 13:5
And the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath.
Ezekiel 27:9
The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were in you, caulking your seams; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to barter for your wares.
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2 Chronicles 3:1 - 2
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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Acts 7:47
But it was Solomon who built a house for him.
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2 Chronicles 3:3 - 4
These are Solomon's measurements for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
Ezekiel 40:1 - 42:1
In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day, the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me to the city.
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Ezekiel 40:16
And the gateway had windows all around, narrowing inwards toward the side rooms and toward their jambs, and likewise the vestibule had windows all around inside, and on the jambs were palm trees.
Ezekiel 41:16
The thresholds and the narrow windows and the galleries all around the three of them, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, from the floor up to the windows (now the windows were covered).
Ezekiel 41:26
And there were narrow windows and palm trees on either side, on the sidewalls of the vestibule, the side chambers of the temple, and the canopies.
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Ezekiel 41:6
And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple.
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1 Kings 6:16
He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house...
1 Kings 6:19 - 20
The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermos...
1 Kings 6:23
In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of ...
1 Kings 6:31
For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made...
1 Kings 7:49
The lampstands of pure gold, five on the south ...
1 Kings 8:6
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenan...
1 Kings 8:8
And the poles were so long that the ends of the...
2 Chronicles 4:20
The lampstands and their lamps of pure gold to ...
2 Chronicles 5:7
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenan...
2 Chronicles 5:9
And the poles were so long that the ends of the...
Psalms 28:2
Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy, when I cr...
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Ezekiel 41:5 - 6
Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple.
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1 Kings 5:18
So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the men of Gebal did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.
Deuteronomy 27:5 - 6
And there you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones. You shall wield no iron tool on them.
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1 Kings 6:14
So Solomon built the house and finished it.
1 Kings 6:38
And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.
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1 Kings 9:4
And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules.
1 Kings 2:4
That the Lord may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.
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2 Samuel 7:13
He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
1 Chronicles 22:10
He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.
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Exodus 25:8
And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst.
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Deuteronomy 31:6
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.
Deuteronomy 31:8
It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.
Joshua 1:5
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.
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1 Kings 6:9
So he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.
1 Kings 6:38
And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.
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1 Kings 7:7
And he made the Hall of the Throne where he was to pronounce judgment, even the Hall of Judgment. It was finished with cedar from floor to rafters.
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2 Chronicles 3:8
And he made the Most Holy Place. Its length, corresponding to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth was twenty cubits. He overlaid it with 600 talents of fine gold.
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1 Kings 7:50
The cups, snuffers, basins, dishes for incense,...
1 Kings 8:6
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenan...
Exodus 26:33 - 34
And you shall hang the veil from the clasps, an...
2 Chronicles 3:8
And he made the Most Holy Place. Its length, co...
Ezekiel 45:3
And from this measured district you shall measu...
Hebrews 9:3
Behind the second curtain was a second section ...
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1 Kings 7:24
Under its brim were gourds, for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.
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Exodus 30:1
You shall make an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.
Exodus 30:3
You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And you shall make a molding of gold around it.
Exodus 30:6
And you shall put it in front of the veil that is above the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is above the testimony, where I will meet with you.
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1 Kings 6:23 - 27
In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high.
2 Chronicles 3:10 - 12
In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of wood and overlaid them with gold.
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Exodus 37:7 - 9
And he made two cherubim of gold. He made them of hammered work on the two ends of the mercy seat.
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1 Kings 8:7
For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles.
Exodus 25:20
The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.
Exodus 37:9
The cherubim spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat were the faces of the cherubim.
2 Chronicles 5:8
The cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles.
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Ezekiel 41:24
The double doors had two leaves apiece, two swinging leaves for each door.
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1 Kings 7:12
The great court had three courses of cut stone all around, and a course of cedar beams; so had the inner court of the house of the Lord and the vestibule of the house.
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1 Kings 6:1
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.
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1 Kings 3:1
Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.
1 Kings 9:10
At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house.
2 Chronicles 8:1
At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house.
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1 Kings 10:17
And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
1 Kings 10:21
All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver; silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.
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1 Kings 7:12
The great court had three courses of cut stone all around, and a course of cedar beams; so had the inner court of the house of the Lord and the vestibule of the house.
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Ezekiel 41:25 - 26
And on the doors of the nave were carved cherubim and palm trees, such as were carved on the walls. And there was a canopy of wood in front of the vestibule outside.
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1 Kings 6:15 - 16
He lined the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar. From the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood, and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.
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1 Kings 3:1
Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 8:11
Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the city of David to the house that he had built for her, for he said, "My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, for the places to which the ark of the Lord has come are holy.
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1 Kings 6:36
He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and one course of cedar beams.
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1 Kings 7:6
And he made the Hall of Pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits. There was a porch in front with pillars, and a canopy in front of them.
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2 Chronicles 2:14
The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father.
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Exodus 31:3 - 5
And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship.
Exodus 35:31
And he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship.
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1 Kings 7:15 - 21
He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference. It was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers. The second pillar was the same.
2 Chronicles 3:15 - 17
In front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, with a capital of five cubits on the top of each.
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2 Kings 25:17
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and on it was a capital of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits. A latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, were all around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with the latticework.
1 Chronicles 18:8
And from Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took a large amount of bronze. With it Solomon made the bronze sea and the pillars and the vessels of bronze.
2 Chronicles 4:12
The two pillars, the bowls, and the two capitals on the top of the pillars; and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars.
Jeremiah 52:21 - 23
As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, its circumference was twelve cubits, and its thickness was four fingers, and it was hollow.
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1 Kings 7:41
The two pillars, the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars, and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars.
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1 Kings 7:15
He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference. It was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers. The second pillar was the same.
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1 Kings 7:42
And the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars.
2 Chronicles 3:16
He made chains like a necklace and put them on the tops of the pillars, and he made a hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains.
2 Chronicles 4:13
And the 400 pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars.
Jeremiah 52:23
There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network all around.
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2 Chronicles 3:17
He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south, the other on the north; that on the south he called Jachin, and that on the north Boaz.
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1 Kings 7:23 - 26
Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
2 Chronicles 4:2 - 5
Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
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2 Kings 16:17
And King Ahaz cut off the frames of the stands and removed the basin from them, and he took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone pedestal.
2 Kings 25:13
And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon.
1 Chronicles 18:8
And from Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took a large amount of bronze. With it Solomon made the bronze sea and the pillars and the vessels of bronze.
Jeremiah 52:17
And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all the bronze to Babylon.
Exodus 30:18
You shall also make a basin of bronze, with its stand of bronze, for washing. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.
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1 Kings 6:18
The cedar within the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen.
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Jeremiah 52:20
As for the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea, and the stands, which Solomon the king had made for the house of the Lord, the bronze of all these things was beyond weight.
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2 Kings 25:13
And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 4:14
He made the stands also, and the basins on the stands.
Jeremiah 52:17
And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all the bronze to Babylon.
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1 Kings 7:27
He also made the ten stands of bronze. Each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.
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2 Chronicles 4:6
He also made ten basins in which to wash, and set five on the south side, and five on the north side. In these they were to rinse off what was used for the burnt offering, and the sea was for the priests to wash in.
Exodus 30:18
You shall also make a basin of bronze, with its stand of bronze, for washing. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.
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1 Kings 7:40 - 51
Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished all the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of the Lord :
2 Chronicles 4:11 - 5:1
Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of God:
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Exodus 27:3
You shall make pots for it to receive its ashes, and shovels and basins and forks and fire pans. You shall make all its utensils of bronze.
Exodus 38:3
And he made all the utensils of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its utensils of bronze.
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1 Kings 7:17 - 18
There were lattices of checker work with wreaths of chain work for the capitals on the tops of the pillars, a lattice for the one capital and a lattice for the other capital.
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1 Kings 7:20
The capitals were on the two pillars and also above the rounded projection which was beside the latticework. There were two hundred pomegranates in two rows all around, and so with the other capital.
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1 Kings 7:23
Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
1 Kings 7:25
It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on them, and all their rear parts were inward.
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Exodus 27:3
You shall make pots for it to receive its ashes, and shovels and basins and forks and fire pans. You shall make all its utensils of bronze.
Exodus 38:3
And he made all the utensils of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its utensils of bronze.
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Joshua 13:27
And in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of Chinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan.
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Joshua 3:16
The waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho.
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1 Chronicles 22:3
David also provided great quantities of iron for nails for the doors of the gates and for clamps, as well as bronze in quantities beyond weighing.
1 Chronicles 22:14
With great pains I have provided for the house of the Lord 100,000 talents of gold, a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone, too, I have provided. To these you must add.
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Exodus 37:25 - 29
He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. Its length was a cubit, and its breadth was a cubit. It was square, and two cubits was its height. Its horns were of one piece with it.
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2 Chronicles 4:8
He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. And he made a hundred basins of gold.
Exodus 37:10 - 16
He also made the table of acacia wood. Two cubits was its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.
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Exodus 25:30
And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly.
Leviticus 24:5 - 8
You shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.
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2 Chronicles 4:7
And he made ten golden lampstands as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.
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Exodus 25:31 - 38
You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.
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Exodus 27:3
You shall make pots for it to receive its ashes, and shovels and basins and forks and fire pans. You shall make all its utensils of bronze.
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1 Kings 6:16
He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.
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2 Samuel 8:11
These also King David dedicated to the Lord, together with the silver and gold that he dedicated from all the nations he subdued.
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1 Kings 8:1 - 9
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2 Chronicles 5:2 - 10
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
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Numbers 1:16
These were the ones chosen from the congregation, the chiefs of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel.
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2 Samuel 6:17
And they brought in the ark of the Lord and set it in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
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2 Samuel 5:7
Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.
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1 Kings 8:65
So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days.
Leviticus 23:34
Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the Lord.
2 Chronicles 7:8 - 10
At that time Solomon held the feast for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt.
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Numbers 4:15
And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the tent of meeting that the sons of Kohath are to carry.
Deuteronomy 31:9
Then Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel.
Joshua 3:3
And commanded the people, "As soon as you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it.
Joshua 3:6
And Joshua said to the priests, "Take up the ark of the covenant and pass on before the people." So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.
1 Chronicles 15:14 - 15
So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.
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1 Kings 3:4
And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
2 Chronicles 1:3
And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness, was there.
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2 Samuel 6:13
And when those who bore the ark of the Lord had gone six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal.
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2 Samuel 6:17
And they brought in the ark of the Lord and set it in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
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Exodus 26:33 - 34
And you shall hang the veil from the clasps, and bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil. And the veil shall separate for you the Holy Place from the Most Holy.
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1 Kings 6:5
He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around.
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Exodus 25:13 - 15
You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
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1 Kings 8:6
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.
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Exodus 25:21
And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you.
Exodus 40:20
He took the testimony and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark and set the mercy seat above on the ark.
Deuteronomy 10:2
And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.
Deuteronomy 10:5
Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark that I had made. And there they are, as the Lord commanded me.
Hebrews 9:4
Having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron's staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.
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Exodus 34:27 - 28
And the Lord said to Moses, "Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.
Deuteronomy 4:13
And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments, and he wrote them on two tablets of stone.
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Exodus 40:34 - 35
Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
2 Chronicles 5:13 - 14
And it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the Lord ), and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the Lord, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever," the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud.
2 Chronicles 7:1 - 2
As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.
Ezekiel 10:3 - 4
Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the house, when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.
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1 Kings 8:12 - 50
Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.
2 Chronicles 6:1 - 39
Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.
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Psalms 18:11
He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him, thick clouds dark with water.
Psalms 97:2
Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
Leviticus 16:2
And the Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother not to come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat.
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2 Samuel 7:13
He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
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Exodus 15:17
You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain, the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.
Psalms 132:14
This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
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1 Kings 8:55
And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying.
2 Samuel 6:18
And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts
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Luke 1:68
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people
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1 Kings 6:12
Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
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2 Samuel 7:4 - 16
But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan.
2 Samuel 7:25
And now, O Lord God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, and do as you have spoken.
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1 Kings 8:29
That your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you have said, 'My name shall be there,' that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.
Deuteronomy 12:11
Then to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the Lord.
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1 Samuel 16:1
The Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.
2 Samuel 7:8
Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.
1 Chronicles 28:4
Yet the Lord God of Israel chose me from all my father's house to be king over Israel forever. For he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father's house, and among my father's sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
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2 Samuel 7:2 - 3
The king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.
1 Chronicles 17:1 - 2
Now when David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, "Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under a tent.
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1 Kings 5:3
You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.
1 Kings 5:5
And so I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord said to David my father, 'Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.
2 Samuel 7:5
Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says the Lord : Would you build me a house to dwell in?
2 Samuel 7:12 - 13
When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
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1 Chronicles 28:5 - 6
And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons) he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
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1 Kings 8:9
There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone that Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 31:26
Take this Book of the Law and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.
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1 Kings 8:54
Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and plea to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, where he had knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven.
2 Chronicles 6:12 - 13
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.
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Exodus 9:33
So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and stretched out his hands to the Lord, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth.
Ezra 9:5
And at the evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment and my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the Lord my God.
Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
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Exodus 15:11
Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?
2 Samuel 7:22
Therefore you are great, O Lord God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
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Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.
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1 Kings 8:15
And he said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying.
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1 Kings 2:4
That the Lord may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.
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2 Samuel 7:25
And now, O Lord God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, and do as you have spoken.
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2 Chronicles 2:6
But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him?
Isaiah 66:1
Thus says the Lord : "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?
Jeremiah 23:24
Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.
Acts 7:49
'Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?
Acts 17:24
The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man.
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1 Kings 8:52
Let your eyes be open to the plea of your servant and to the plea of your people Israel, giving ear to them whenever they call to you.
2 Chronicles 7:15
Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
Nehemiah 1:6
Let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father's house have sinned.
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1 Kings 8:16
'Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there. But I chose David to be over my people Israel.'
1 Kings 9:3
And the Lord said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
Deuteronomy 12:11
Then to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the Lord.
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Exodus 22:11
An oath by the Lord shall be between them both to see whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor's property. The owner shall accept the oath, and he shall not make restitution.
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Deuteronomy 25:1
If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty.
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Leviticus 26:17
I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.
Deuteronomy 28:45
All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.
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Leviticus 26:40
But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me.
Nehemiah 1:9
But if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.
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Deuteronomy 11:17
Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.
Luke 4:25
But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land.
Leviticus 26:17
I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.
Deuteronomy 28:25
The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Psalms 25:4
Make me to know your ways, O Lord ; teach me your paths.
Psalms 27:11
Teach me your way, O Lord, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.
Psalms 86:11
Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.
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1 Samuel 12:23
Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
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Leviticus 26:16
Then I will do this to you: I will visit you wi...
Leviticus 26:25 - 26
And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall e...
Deuteronomy 28:21 - 22
The Lord will make the pestilence stick to you ...
Deuteronomy 28:37 - 38
And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a...
Deuteronomy 28:42
The cricket shall possess all your trees and th...
Deuteronomy 28:52
They shall besiege you in all your towns, until...
2 Chronicles 20:9
'If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment...
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1 Chronicles 28:9
And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Acts 1:24
And they prayed and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen
1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.
Jeremiah 17:10
"I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds."
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Deuteronomy 12:1
These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.
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Deuteronomy 3:24
O Lord God, you have only begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours?
2 Chronicles 6:32
Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for the sake of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when he comes and prays toward this house.
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1 Kings 8:60
That all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other.
Joshua 4:24
So that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty, that you may fear the Lord your God forever.
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Psalms 102:15
Nations will fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory.
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1 Kings 8:48
If they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name.
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Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, "I have made my heart pure; I am c...
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth wh...
Romans 3:23
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory...
James 3:2
For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone ...
1 John 1:8
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves,...
1 John 1:10
If we say we have not sinned, we make him a lia...
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Leviticus 26:34
Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths.
Leviticus 26:44
Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.
Deuteronomy 28:36
The Lord will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 28:64
And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
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Leviticus 26:40
But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me.
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Nehemiah 1:6
Let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father's house have sinned.
Psalms 106:6
Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.
Daniel 9:5
We have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.
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1 Samuel 7:3
And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, "If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
Jeremiah 29:12 - 14
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
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Daniel 6:10
When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.
1 Kings 8:44
If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the Lord toward the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name.
Psalms 5:7
But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you.
Jonah 2:4
Then I said, 'I am driven away from your sight; yet I shall again look upon your holy temple.
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Psalms 106:46
He caused them to be pitied by all those who held them captive.
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Deuteronomy 9:29
For they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.
Nehemiah 1:10
They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand.
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Deuteronomy 4:20
But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day.
Jeremiah 11:4
That I commanded your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Listen to my voice, and do all that I command you. So shall you be my people, and I will be your God.
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1 Kings 8:29
That your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you have said, 'My name shall be there,' that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.
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Exodus 19:5 - 6
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.
Deuteronomy 9:26
And I prayed to the Lord, 'O Lord God, do not destroy your people and your heritage, whom you have redeemed through your greatness, whom you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Deuteronomy 9:29
For they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.
Deuteronomy 14:2
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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2 Chronicles 7:1
As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.
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2 Chronicles 6:13
Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the court, and he stood on it. Then he knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven.
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1 Kings 8:14
Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.
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Joshua 21:45
Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.
Joshua 23:14
And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.
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Deuteronomy 31:6
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.
Joshua 1:5
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.
1 Samuel 12:22
For the Lord will not forsake his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.
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Psalms 119:36
Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain!
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1 Kings 8:43
Hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.
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Deuteronomy 4:35
To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.
Deuteronomy 4:39
Know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
1 Kings 18:39
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, "The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.
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2 Kings 20:3
Now, O Lord, please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
1 Kings 11:4
For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
1 Kings 15:3
And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.
1 Kings 15:14
But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the Lord all his days.
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1 Kings 8:62 - 66
Then the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.
2 Chronicles 7:4 - 10
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the Lord.
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Ezra 6:16 - 17
And the people of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the returned exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.
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2 Chronicles 4:1
He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.
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1 Kings 8:2
And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
Leviticus 23:34
Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the Lord.
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Numbers 13:21
So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near Lebo-hamath.
Numbers 34:8
From Mount Hor you shall draw a line to Lebo-hamath, and the limit of the border shall be at Zedad.
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Numbers 34:5
And the border shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and its limit shall be at the sea.
2 Kings 24:7
And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.
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1 Kings 9:1 - 9
As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the king's house and all that Solomon desired to build.
2 Chronicles 7:11 - 22
Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord and the king's house. All that Solomon had planned to do in the house of the Lord and in his own house he successfully accomplished.
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1 Kings 7:1
Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.
2 Chronicles 8:1
At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house.
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1 Kings 9:19
And all the store cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
2 Chronicles 8:6
And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had and all the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
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1 Kings 3:5
At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, "Ask what I shall give you.
1 Kings 11:9
And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice
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1 Kings 8:16
'Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there. But I chose David to be over my people Israel.'
1 Kings 8:29
That your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you have said, 'My name shall be there,' that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.
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Deuteronomy 11:12
A land that the Lord your God cares for. The eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
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Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
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1 Kings 11:4
For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
1 Kings 11:6
So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord, as David his father had done.
1 Kings 11:38
And if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
1 Kings 14:8
And tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, and yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, doing only that which was right in my eyes.
1 Kings 15:5
Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
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1 Kings 6:12
Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
1 Chronicles 22:10
He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.
1 Kings 2:4
That the Lord may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.
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2 Samuel 7:14
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men.
Psalms 89:30
If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my rules.
Psalms 89:32
Then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes.
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Deuteronomy 4:26
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed.
2 Kings 17:23
Until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.
2 Kings 25:21
And the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.
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Jeremiah 7:14
Therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
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Deuteronomy 28:37
And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away.
Psalms 44:14
You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
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Deuteronomy 29:24 - 26
All the nations will say, 'Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?
Jeremiah 22:8 - 9
"'And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, "Why has the Lord dealt thus with this great city?"
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1 Kings 18:18
And he answered, "I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father's house, because you have abandoned the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals.
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1 Kings 9:10 - 28
At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house.
2 Chronicles 8:1 - 18
At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house.
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1 Kings 6:37 - 38
In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, in the month of Ziv.
1 Kings 7:1
Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.
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Joshua 19:27
Then it turns eastward, it goes to Beth-dagon, and touches Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtahel northward to Beth-emek and Neiel. Then it continues in the north to Cabul.
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1 Kings 5:13
King Solomon drafted forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men.
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1 Kings 9:24
But Pharaoh's daughter went up from the city of David to her own house that Solomon had built for her. Then he built the Millo.
2 Samuel 5:9
And David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built the city all around from the Millo inward.
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Joshua 11:1
When Jabin, king of Hazor, heard of this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph.
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Joshua 17:11
Also in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Naphath.
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Joshua 16:10
However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor.
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1 Kings 3:1
Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.
1 Kings 7:8
His own house where he was to dwell, in the other court back of the hall, was of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter whom he had taken in marriage.
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Joshua 10:10
And the Lord threw them into a panic before Israel, who struck them with a great blow at Gibeon and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.
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1 Kings 10:26
And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 1:14
Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 9:25
And Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
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1 Kings 4:26
Solomon also had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.
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1 Kings 9:1
As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the king's house and all that Solomon desired to build.
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Judges 1:21
But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
Judges 1:27
Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.
Judges 1:29
And Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.
Judges 3:1
Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.
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Joshua 15:63
But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out, so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
Joshua 17:12
Yet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.
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Judges 1:28
When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not drive them out completely.
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Ezra 2:55 - 58
The sons of Solomon's servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Hassophereth, the sons of Peruda.
Nehemiah 7:57 - 60
The sons of Solomon's servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Perida.
Nehemiah 11:3
These are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the towns of Judah everyone lived on his property in their towns: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the descendants of Solomon's servants.
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Leviticus 25:39
If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:
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2 Chronicles 8:10
And these were the chief officers of King Solomon, 250, who exercised authority over the people.
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1 Kings 5:16
Besides Solomon's 3,300 chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
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1 Kings 9:16
(Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
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1 Kings 7:8
His own house where he was to dwell, in the other court back of the hall, was of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter whom he had taken in marriage.
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1 Kings 11:27
And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king. Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of David his father.
2 Samuel 5:9
And David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built the city all around from the Millo inward.
2 Chronicles 32:5
He set to work resolutely and built up all the wall that was broken down and raised towers upon it, and outside it he built another wall, and he strengthened the Millo in the city of David. He also made weapons and shields in abundance.
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1 Kings 9:15
And this is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the Lord and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer
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1 Kings 22:48
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go, for the ships were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
Numbers 33:35
And they set out from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber.
Deuteronomy 2:8
So we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber. "And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.
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1 Kings 10:11
Moreover, the fleet of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir a very great amount of almug wood and precious stones.
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1 Kings 10:11
Moreover, the fleet of Hiram, which brought gol...
1 Kings 22:48
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Oph...
1 Chronicles 29:4
3,000 talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, an...
Job 22:24
If you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir ...
Job 28:16
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in pr...
Psalms 45:9
Daughters of kings are among your ladies of hon...
Isaiah 13:12
I will make people more rare than fine gold, an...
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1 Kings 10:1 - 13
Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions.
2 Chronicles 9:1 - 12
Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions, having a very great retinue and camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.
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Matthew 12:42
The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Luke 11:31
The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
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Psalms 72:10
May the kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands...
Psalms 72:15
Long may he live; may gold of Sheba be given to...
Isaiah 60:6
A multitude of camels shall cover you, the youn...
Jeremiah 6:20
What use to me is frankincense that comes from ...
Ezekiel 27:22 - 23
The traders of Sheba and Raamah traded with you...
Ezekiel 38:13
Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish a...
Joel 3:8
I will sell your sons and your daughters into t...
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Judges 14:12
And Samson said to them, "Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes.
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1 Kings 10:10
Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices and precious stones. Never again came such an abundance of spices as these that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
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Proverbs 8:34
Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.
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1 Kings 5:7
As soon as Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly and said, "Blessed be the Lord this day, who has given to David a wise son to be over this great people.
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2 Chronicles 2:11
Then Hiram the king of Tyre answered in a letter that he sent to Solomon, "Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you king over them.
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2 Samuel 8:15
So David reigned over all Israel. And David administered justice and equity to all his people.
Psalms 72:2
May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice!
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1 Kings 10:2
She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.
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1 Kings 9:27
And Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon.
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1 Kings 9:28
And they went to Ophir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon.
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1 Kings 10:14 - 28
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold.
2 Chronicles 9:13 - 28
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold.
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1 Kings 14:26
He took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house. He took away everything. He also took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made.
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1 Kings 7:2
He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was a hundred cubits and its breadth fifty cubits and its height thirty cubits, and it was built on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.
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1 Kings 10:17
And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
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1 Kings 22:48
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Oph...
Genesis 10:4
The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, a...
1 Chronicles 1:7
The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, a...
2 Chronicles 20:36 - 37
He joined him in building ships to go to Tarshi...
Psalms 48:7
By the east wind you shattered the ships of Tar...
Psalms 72:10
May the kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands...
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1 Kings 3:12 - 13
Behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.
1 Kings 4:30
So that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
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1 Kings 10:26 - 29
And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 1:14 - 17
Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
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1 Kings 4:26
Solomon also had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.
2 Chronicles 9:25
And Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
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1 Kings 9:19
And all the store cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
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1 Chronicles 27:28
Over the olive and sycamore trees in the Shephelah was Baal-hanan the Gederite; and over the stores of oil was Joash.
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2 Chronicles 9:28
And horses were imported for Solomon from Egypt and from all lands.
Deuteronomy 17:16
Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, 'You shall never return that way again.
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Judges 1:26
And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city and called its name Luz. That is its name to this day.
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