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¹AND when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahvah and the king's house and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do, ²Then Yahvah appeared to him the 2nd time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. ³And Yahvah said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before me; and I have hallowed for me this house which you have built to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually. ⁴And as for you, if you 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 judgments; ⁵Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, There will not fail you a man on the throne of Israel. ⁶But, if you indeed turn from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them; ⁷Then I will destroy Israel from the face of the land which I have given them; and this house which I have hallowed for my name I will cast out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples; ⁸And this house will be in ruins; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss; and they will say, Why has Yahvah done thus to this land and to this house? ⁹And they will answer, Because they forsook Yahvah their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold on other gods, and have worshiped them and served them; therefore Yahvah has brought all this evil on them.

¹⁰And it came to pass at the end of 20 years, when Solomon had built the 2 houses, the house of Yahvah and the king's house ¹¹Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees and gold, according to all his desire, that then King Solomon gave Hiram 20 towns in the land of Galilee. ¹²And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they did not please him. ¹³And he said, What kind of cities are these which you have given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabuli to this day. ¹⁴And King Hiram sent to King Solomon 120 talents of gold.

¹⁵And this is the portion of tribute which King Solomon levied to build the house of Yahvah and his own house. And he also built the wall of Jerusalem and Millo and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer. ¹⁶For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and conquered Gezer and burned it with fire and slain the Canaanites who lived in the city and given it as a present to his daughter, Solomon's wife. ¹⁷And Solomon built Gezer and Bethhauran the lower, ¹⁸And Baalath and Tadmor in the land of the wilderness, ¹⁹And all the cities for storage that Solomon had, and the cities for the chariots and cities for the horsemen and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his dominion. ²⁰And all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel, ²¹Their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able to destroy utterly, Solomon made slaves and tributaries to this day. ²²But of the children of Israel Solomon made no slaves; because they were his men of war and his servants and his princes and his mighty men and commanders of his chariots and his horsemen. ²³These were the superintendents who were over Solomon's work, 550, who had charge of the people and who supervised the work. ²⁴But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to the house which Solomon had built for her; then he built Millo. ²⁵And 3 times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar, and he burned incense on it before Yahvah. So he finished the house of Yahvah. ²⁶And King Solomon built a ship in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Arwad. ²⁷And Hiram sent his servants in the ship, seamen who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. ²⁸And they came to Ophir and took from there gold, 420 talents, and brought it to King Solomon.