1 Kings 9:1

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1 Kings 9:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,

2 the LORD appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.

3 And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.

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1 Kings 6:37

The foundation of the house of the LORD was laid in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, in the month of Ziv.

1 Kings 6:38

In his eleventh year and eighth month, the month of Bul, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.

1 Kings 7:1

Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace.

1 Kings 7:51

So all the work that King Solomon had performed for the house of the LORD was completed. Then Solomon brought in the items his father David had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 7:11

When Solomon had finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace, successfully carrying out all that was in his heart to do for the house of the LORD and for his own palace,

2 Chronicles 7:12

the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

2 Chronicles 7:13

If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,

2 Chronicles 7:14

and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:15

Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.

2 Chronicles 7:16

For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.

2 Chronicles 7:17

And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

2 Chronicles 7:18

then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with your father David when I said, ‘You will never fail to have a man to rule over Israel.’

2 Chronicles 7:19

But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,

2 Chronicles 7:20

then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

2 Chronicles 7:21

And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

2 Chronicles 7:22

And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, He has brought all this disaster upon them.’”

2 Chronicles 8:1

Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own palace,

2 Chronicles 8:2

Solomon rebuilt the cities Hiram had given him and settled Israelites there.

2 Chronicles 8:3

Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.

2 Chronicles 8:4

He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath.

2 Chronicles 8:5

He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,

2 Chronicles 8:6

as well as Baalath, all the store cities that belonged to Solomon, and all the cities for his chariots and horses —whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.

Ecclesiastes 2:4

I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.

1 Kings 9:11

King Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, who had supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every desire.

1 Kings 9:19

as well as all the store cities that Solomon had for his chariots and horses —whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.