Verse 8
1 Kings 9:8
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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And this house shall be made an example of: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss, and say: Why hath the Lord done thus 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
1
And it came to pass when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the king's...
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That the Lord appeared to him the second time, as he had appeared to him in Gabaon.
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3
And the Lord said to him: I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, which thou hast made before...
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4
And if thou wilt walk before me, as thy father walked, in simplicity of heart, and in uprightness: a...
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I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever, as I promised David thy father, say...
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But if you and your children revolting shall turn away from following me, and will not keep my comma...
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7
I will take away Israel from the face of the land which I have given them; and the temple which I ha...
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8
And this house shall be made an example of: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, an...
9
And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord their God (Elohim), who brought their fathers o...
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10
And when twenty years were ended after Solomon had built the two houses, that is, the house of the L...
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11
11(Hiram the king of Tyre furnishing Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and gold according to a...
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12
And Hiram came out of Tyre, to see the towns which Solomon had given him, and they pleased him not,
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13
And he said: Are these the cities which thou hast given me, brother? And he called them the land of...
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14
And Hiram sent to king Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold.
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15
This is the sum of the expenses, which king Solomon offered to build the house of the Lord, and his...
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16
Pharao the king of Egypt came up and took Gazer, and burnt it with fire: and slew the Chanaanite tha...
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17
So Solomon built: Gazer, and Beth-horon the nether,
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And Baalath, and Palmira in the land of the wilderness.
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19
And all the towns that belonged to himself, and were not walled, he fortified, the cities also of th...
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20
All the people that were left of the Amorrhites, and Hethites, and Pherezites, and Hevites, and Jebu...
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Their children, that were left in the land, to wit, such as the children of Israel had not been able...
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But of the children of Israel Solomon made not any to be bondmen, but they were men of war, and his...
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And there were five hundred and fifty chief officers set over all the works of Solomon, and they had...
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And the daughter of Pharao came up out of the city of David to her house, which Solomon had built fo...
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Solomon also offered three times every year holocausts, and victims of peace offerings upon the alta...
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And king Solomon made a fleet in Asiongaber, which is by Ailath on the shore of the Red Sea in the l...
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And Hiram sent his servants in the fleet, sailors that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants o...
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And they came to Ophir, and they brought from thence to king Solomon four hundred and twenty talents...
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