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When Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and everything else he had set his heart on making,
the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
The LORD said to him: "I have heard your prayer and your plea that you have made before me. I have consecrated this house you have built, to put my name there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
As for you, if you walk before me as your father David walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing all that I have commanded you, keeping my statutes and my ordinances,
then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David when I said, 'You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.'
But if you and your children turn away from me and do not keep the commands and statutes I have set before you, and go off to serve other gods and bow down to them,
then I will cut Israel off from the land I have given them, and I will cast out of my sight this house that I have consecrated for my name. Israel will become a byword and an object of scorn among all peoples.
And though this house now stands so high, everyone who passes by it will be appalled and will hiss, saying, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this house?'
And the answer will be, 'Because they abandoned the LORD their God, who brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, bowing down to them and serving them—that is why the LORD has brought all this disaster on them.'"
At the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two buildings—the house of the LORD and the royal palace—
King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and cypress timber and gold he desired.
But when Hiram came from Tyre to inspect the towns Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.
"What are these towns you have given me, my brother?" he said. And he named them the Land of Cabul,* a name they bear to this day. *Cabul sounds like a Hebrew expression meaning "good for nothing."
Now Hiram had sent the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.
This is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
(Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon's wife.)
So Solomon rebuilt Gezer. He also built up Lower Beth Horon,
Baalath, and Tadmor* in the wilderness, in the land, *The written Hebrew text reads Tamar; the traditional reading is Tadmor.
as well as all his store cities and the cities for his chariots and for his cavalry—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and throughout the territory he ruled.
As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—those who were not Israelites—
that is, their descendants remaining in the land, whom the Israelites had not been able to destroy—these Solomon conscripted for his slave labor force, as it is to this day.
But Solomon did not make slaves of any of the Israelites; they were his fighting men, his officials, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and cavalry.
These were the chief officers in charge of Solomon's projects—five hundred and fifty of them—who supervised the men doing the work.
After Pharaoh's daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace Solomon had built for her, he built the Millo.
Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense before the LORD along with them. So he completed the temple.
King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion Geber, near Elath on the shore of the Red Sea,* in the land of Edom. *Hebrew: Sea of Reeds.
And Hiram sent his servants—sailors who knew the sea—to serve in the fleet with Solomon's men.
They sailed to Ophir and brought back four hundred and twenty talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.
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