at the dedication.

CHAP. IX. God's covenant with Solomon.

ple of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house which I have builded is called by thy name.

44 ¶ If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy

name.

45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.

57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:

58 That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.

59 And let these my words wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, 46 If they sin against thee, (for there is be nigh unto the LORD our God day and no man that sinneth not,) and thou be an- night, that he maintain the cause of his gry with them and deliver them to the ene- servant, and the cause of his people Israel my, so that they carry them away captives at all times, as the matter shall require : unto the land of the enemy, far or near; 60 That all the people of the earth may 47 Yet if they shall bethink themselves know that the LORD is God, and that there in the land whither they were carried cap-is none else.

tives, and repent, and make supplication 61 Let your heart therefore be perfect unto thee in the land of them that carried with the LORD our God, to walk in his stathem captives, saying, We have sinned, tutes, and to keep his commandments, as and have done perversely, we have com- at this day.

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mitted wickedness; And the king, and all Israel with 48 And so return unto thee with all their him, offered sacrifice before the LORD. heart, and with all their soul, in the land 63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of of their enemies which led them away cap-peace-offerings, which he offered unto the tive, and pray unto thee toward their land, LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and which thou gavest unto their fathers, the a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. city which thou hast chosen, and the house So the king and all the children of Israel which I have built for thy name: dedicated the house of the LORD. 49 Then hear thou their prayer and 64 The same day did the king hallow their supplication in heaven thy dwelling- the middle of the court that was before the place, and maintain their cause, house of the LORD: for there he offered 50 And forgive thy people that have sin- burnt-offerings, and meat-offerings, and ned against thee, and all their transgres- the fat of the peace-offerings: because the sions wherein they have transgressed brazen altar that was before the LORD was against thee, and give them compassion be- too little to receive the burnt-offerings, and fore them who carried them captive, that meat-offerings, and the fat of the peacethey may have compassion on them: offerings. 51 For they be thy people, and thine in- 65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, heritance, which thou broughtest forth out of and all Israel with him, a great congregaEgypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron: tion, from the entering in of Hamath unto 52 That thine eyes may be open unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our the supplication of thy servant, and unto God, seven days and seven days, even fourthe supplication of thy people Israel, to teen days. hearken unto them in all that they call for 66 On the eighth day he sent the people unto thee. away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart tor all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people. CHAP. IX.

53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou

broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, AND it came to pass when Solomon had

Lord

finished the building of the house of

54 And it was so, that when Solomon the LORD, and the king's house, and all Sohad made an end of praying all this prayer lomon's desire which he was pleased to do, and supplication unto the LORD, he arose 2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon from before the altar of the LORD, from the second time, as he had appeared unto kneeling on his knees with his hands spread him at Gibeon. up to heaven.

3 And the LORD said unto him, I have 55 And he stood and blessed all the con- heard thy prayer and thy supplication that gregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, thou hast made before me: I have hallow56 Blessed be the LORD, that hath given ed this house, which thou hast built, to put rest unto his people Israel, according to all my name there for ever; and mine eyes

Presents of Solomon and Hiram. I. KINGS. Solomon's yearly sacrifices.

and my heart shall be there perpetually. | 18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the 4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as wilderness, in the land,

David thy father walked, in integrity of 19 And all the cities of store that Soloheart, and in uprightness, to do accord-mon had, and cities for his chariots, and ing to all that I have commanded thee, cities for his horsemen, and that which and wilt keep my statutes and my judg- Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his

ments:

5 Then I will establish the throne of dominion. thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as 1 20 And all the people that were left of promised to David thy father, saying, the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, There shall not fail thee a man upon the and Jebusites, which were not of the chilthrone of Israel. dren of Israel,

6 But if ye shall at all turn from follow- 21 Their children that were left after ing me, ye or your children, and will not them in the land, whom the children of keep my commandments and my statutes Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, which I have set before you, but go and upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of serve other gods, and worship them: bond-service unto this day. 7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the 22 But of the children of Israel did Soland which I have given them; and this lomon make no bond-men: but they were house which I have hallowed for my name, men of war, and his servants, and his will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall princes, and his captains, and rulers of his be a proverb and a by-word among all chariots, and his horsemen. people:

23 These were the chief of the officers 8 And at this house, which is high, every that were over Solomon's work, five hunone that passeth by it shall be astonished, dred and fifty, which bare rule over the and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why people that wrought in the work. hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?

24 T But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house 9 And they shall answer, Because they which Solomon had built for her: then did forsook the LORD their God, who brought he build Millo.

forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, 25 ¶ And three times in a year did Soloand have taken hold upon other gods, and mon offer burnt-offerings and peace-offerhave worshipped them, and served them: ings upon the altar which he built unto the therefore hath the LORD brought upon LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar them all this evil. that was before the LORD. So he finished

10 T And it came to pass at the end of the house. twenty years, when Soloinon had built the 26 T And king Solomon made a navy two houses, the house of the LORD, and of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside the king's house, Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.

11 (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar-trees and 27 And Hiram sent in the navy his serfir-trees, and with gold, according to all vants, shipmen that had knowledge of the his desire,) that then king Solomon gave sea, with the servants of Solomon. Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched 12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to from thence gold, four hundred and twenty see the cities which Solomon had given talents, and brought it to king Solomon. him; and they pleased him nct.

CHAP. X.

13 And he said, What cities are these of the fame of Solomon concerning ND when the queen of Sheba heard which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.

this day.

14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare 15 And this is the reason of the levy spices, and very much gold, and precious which king Solomon raised; for to build stones: and when she was come to Solothe house of the LORD, and his own house, mon, she communed with him of all that and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and was in her heart. Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

3 And Solomon told her all her ques16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone tions: there was not any thing hid from up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with the king, which he told her not. fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.

17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethboron the nether,

4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built,

5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance