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Then will I cut offIsraelout 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 byword among all people:
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And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORDdone thus unto this land, and to this house?
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And 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 othergods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORDbrought upon them all this evil.
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(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnishedSolomon with cedartrees and firtrees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that thenkingSolomongaveHiramtwentycities in the land of Galilee.
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And this is the reason of the levy which kingSolomonraised; 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.
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For Pharaohking of Egypt had gone up, and takenGezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter,Solomon'swife.