Verse 8
1 Kings 9:8
Bible in Basic English
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And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds; and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/הַ/בַּ֤יִת הַ/זֶּה֙ יִהְיֶ֣ה עֶלְי֔וֹן כָּל עֹבֵ֥ר עָלָ֖י/ו יִשֹּׁ֣ם וְ/שָׁרָ֑ק וְ/אָמְר֗וּ עַל מֶ֨ה עָשָׂ֤ה יְהוָה֙ כָּ֔כָה לָ/אָ֥רֶץ הַ/זֹּ֖את וְ/לַ/בַּ֥יִת הַ/זֶּֽה
English Translation
And this house shall be the highest; everyone who passes by it shall be astonished and shall say, "Why has the Lord done this to this land and to this house?"
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Chapter 9 Context
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Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Sol...
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The Lord came to him again in a vision, as he had done at Gibeon;
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And the Lord said to him, Your prayers and your requests for grace have come to my ears: I have made...
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As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a tru...
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Then I will make the seat of your rule over Israel certain for ever, as I gave my word to David your...
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But if you are turned from my ways, you or your children, and do not keep my orders and my laws whic...
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Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have...
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And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wo...
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And their answer will be, Because they were turned away from the Lord their God (Elohim), who took t...
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10
Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the two houses, the house of the Lo...
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(Hiram, king of Tyre, had given Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees and gold, as much as he had ne...
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But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns which Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with...
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And he said, What sort of towns are these which you have given me, my brother? So they were named th...
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And Hiram sent the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.
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Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of...
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Pharaoh, king of Egypt, came and took Gezer, burning it down and putting to death the Canaanites liv...
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... and Solomon was the builder of Gezer and Beth-horon the lower,
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And Baalath and Tamar in the waste land, in that land;
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And all the store-towns and the towns which Solomon had for his war-carriages and for his horsemen,...
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As for the rest of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who w...
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Their children who were still in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not been able to put...
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But Solomon did not put the children of Israel to forced work; they were the men of war, his servant...
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These were the chiefs of the overseers of Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, in authority over...
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At that time Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he ha...
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Three times in the year it was Solomon's way to give burned offerings and peace-offerings on the alt...
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And King Solomon made a sea-force of ships in Ezion-geber, by Eloth, on the Red Sea, in the land of...
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Hiram sent his servants, who were experienced seamen, in the sea-force with Solomon's men.
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And they came to Ophir, where they got four hundred and twenty talents of gold, and took it back to...
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