KJV Easy Read Bible God’s second Appearance to Solomon 1And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do, 2That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon. 3And the Lord said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before Me: I have hallowed this house, which you have built, to put My name there for ever; and My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually. appeal; consecrated 4And if you will walk before Me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My judgments: 5Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man upon the throne of Israel. 6But if youp shall at all turn from following Me, youp or yourp children, and will not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before youp, but go and serve other gods, and worship them: 7Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, will I cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by word among all people: destroy 8And at this house, which is high, every one that passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house? scoff 9And they shall answer, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore has the Lord brought upon them all this evil. rejected Solomon and Hiram Exchange Gifts 10And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, 11(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 12And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not. 13And he said, What cities are these which you have given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul to this day. good for nothing 14And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold. 120 Solomon’s Additional Achievements 15And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. 16For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burned it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelled in the city, and given it for a present to his daughter, Solomon’s wife. 17And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether, lower 18And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land, 19And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. 20And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel, 21Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice to this day. labor force; slavery 22But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen. slaves 23These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, which bore rule over the people that wrought in the work. fashioned 24But Pharoah’s daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo. 25And three times in a year did Solomon offer burned offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built to the Lord, and he burned incense upon the altar that was before the Lord. So he finished the house. 26And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. 27And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. 28And they came to Ophir, and brought from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
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