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1 Kings 9:2-13 World Messianic Bible British Edition (WMBBE)

2. the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

3. The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

4. As for you, 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 ordinances;

5. then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’

6. But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them;

7. then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword amongst all peoples.

8. Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land, and to this house?’

9. and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold of other gods, and worshipped them, and served them. Therefore the Lord has brought all this evil on them.’”

10. At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the Lord’s house and the king’s house

11. (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

12. Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him.

13. He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul to this day.

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