1 Kings 9:5-15 (Today's New International Version)

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5 I will establish¹ your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father when I said, 'You shall never fail² to have a successor on the throne of Israel.' 6 "But if you^a or your descendants turn away³ from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you^b and go off to serve other gods⁴ and worship them, 7 then I will cut off Israel from the land⁵ I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name.⁶ Israel will then become a byword⁷ and an object of ridicule⁸ among all peoples. 8 This temple will become a heap of rubble. All^c who pass by will be appalled⁹ and will scoff and say, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?'¹⁰ 9 People will answer,¹¹ 'Because they have forsaken¹² the LORD their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them--that is why the LORD brought all this disaster¹³ on them.' "

Solomon's Other Activities

9:10-28pp -- 2Ch 8:1-18

10 At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings--the temple of the LORD and the royal palace-- 11 King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and juniper and gold¹⁴ he wanted. 12 But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them. 13 "What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?" he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul,^d¹⁵ a name they have to this day. 14 Now Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents^e of gold.¹⁶ 15 Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted¹⁷ to build the LORD's temple, his own palace, the terraces,^f¹⁸ the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor,¹⁹ Megiddo and Gezer.²⁰

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