1 Kings 9:1
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1 Kings 9:1
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Now it came about when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all that Solomon desired to do,
1 Kings 9:2
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that the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
1 Kings 9:3
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The LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.
1 Kings 9:4
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~"As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you {and} will keep My statutes and My ordinances,
1 Kings 9:5
1 Kings 9:6
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"But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
1 Kings 9:7
1 Kings 9:8
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~"And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, `Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'
1 Kings 9:9
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~"And they will say, `Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore the LORD has brought all this adversity on them."'
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