Verse 3
1 Kings 9:3
Free Bible Version
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The Lord told him, “I have heard your prayer and your request to me. I have dedicated this Temple you have built by placing my name on it forever; I will always watch over it and take care of it.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֵלָ֗י/ו שָׁ֠מַעְתִּי אֶת תְּפִלָּתְ/ךָ֣ וְ/אֶת תְּחִנָּתְ/ךָ֮ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הִתְחַנַּ֣נְתָּה לְ/פָנַ/י֒ הִקְדַּ֗שְׁתִּי אֶת הַ/בַּ֤יִת הַ/זֶּה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בָּנִ֔תָה לָ/שֽׂוּם שְׁמִ֥/י שָׁ֖ם עַד עוֹלָ֑ם וְ/הָי֨וּ עֵינַ֧/י וְ/לִבִּ֛/י שָׁ֖ם כָּל הַ/יָּמִֽים
English Translation
And the LORD said to me, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before me; I have consecrated this house that you have built to put my name there forever, and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days."
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Chapter 9 Context
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After Solomon had finished the Lord's Temple and the royal palace, having accomplished everything he...
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the Lord appeared to him a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
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The Lord told him, “I have heard your prayer and your request to me. I have dedicated this Temple yo...
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As for you, if you follow my ways as your father David did, doing everything I've told you to do, an...
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then I will make your throne secure forever. I made this agreement with your father David, telling h...
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But if you or your descendants turn away and do not keep the laws and the commandments I have given...
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then I will cut Israel off from the land I have given them. I will banish from my presence this Temp...
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This Temple will become a pile of rubble. All who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss, saying,...
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The answer will come, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God (Elohim), who brought their forefat...
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It took twenty years for Solomon to construct the two buildings—the Temple of the Lord and his own p...
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King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had provided him with...
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But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, he was not happy with th...
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“What are these towns you have given me, my brother?” asked Hiram. He called them the land of Cabul,...
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Even so, Hiram sent the king 120 talents of gold in payment.
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Here is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the Lord's Temple, his ow...
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Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, and killed the Canaa...
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Solomon rebuilt Gezer and lower Beth-horon,
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Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,
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and all of Solomon's towns for storage, and the towns for his chariots and for his horsemen, plus wh...
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The descendants of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (people who were not Is...
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who remained in the land—those whom the Israelites were unable to destroy completely—were conscripte...
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But Solomon did not enslave any of the Israelites. They were his soldiers, officials, commanders, ca...
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They were also the chief officers in charge of Solomon's programs: 550 in command of the people who...
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Once Pharaoh's daughter had moved from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for he...
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Three times each year Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings and friendship offerings on the altar he ha...
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King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea,...
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They sailed to Ophir and brought back 420 talents of gold from there and delivered it to Solomon.
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