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- 1 Kings 9:25
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Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense with them before the LORD. So he completed the temple.
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- 1 Kings 9:26
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King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
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- 1 Kings 9:27
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And Hiram sent his servants, sailors who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.
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- 1 Kings 9:28
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They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.
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- 1 Kings 10:1
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Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with difficult questions.
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- 1 Kings 10:2
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She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan—with camels bearing spices, gold in great abundance, and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and spoke to him all that was on her mind.
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- 1 Kings 10:3
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And Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too difficult for the king to explain.
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- 1 Kings 10:4
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When the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, the palace he had built,
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- 1 Kings 10:10
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Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again were spices in such abundance brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
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- 1 Kings 10:13
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King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired—whatever she asked—besides what he had given her out of his royal bounty. Then she left and returned to her own country, along with her servants.
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- 1 Kings 10:14
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The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,
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- 1 Kings 10:16
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King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.
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- 1 Kings 10:21
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All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
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- 1 Kings 10:23
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So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
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- 1 Kings 10:24
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The whole world sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.
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- 1 Kings 10:26
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Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
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- 1 Kings 10:28
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Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.
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- 1 Kings 11:1
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King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
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- 1 Kings 11:2
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These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.
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- 1 Kings 11:4
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For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.
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- 1 Kings 11:5
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Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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- 1 Kings 11:6
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So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely.
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- 1 Kings 11:7
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At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.
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- 1 Kings 11:9
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Now the LORD grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.
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- 1 Kings 11:11
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Then the LORD said to Solomon, “Because you have done this and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.
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- 1 Kings 11:14
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Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.
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- 1 Kings 11:25
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Rezon was Israel’s enemy throughout the days of Solomon, adding to the trouble caused by Hadad. So Rezon ruled over Aram with hostility toward Israel.
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- 1 Kings 11:26
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Now Jeroboam son of Nebat was an Ephraimite from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah. Jeroboam was a servant of Solomon, but he rebelled against the king,
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- 1 Kings 11:27
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and this is the account of his rebellion against the king. Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.
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- 1 Kings 11:28
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Now Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor. So when Solomon noticed that the young man was industrious, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the house of Joseph.
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- 1 Kings 11:31
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and said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and I will give you ten tribes.
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- 1 Kings 11:40
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Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, where he remained until the death of Solomon.
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- 1 Kings 11:41
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As for the rest of the acts of Solomon—all that he did, as well as his wisdom—are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon?
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- 1 Kings 11:42
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Thus the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
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- 1 Kings 11:43
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And Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. And his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.
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- 1 Kings 12:2
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When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he was still in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since.
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- 1 Kings 12:6
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Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
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- 1 Kings 12:21
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And when Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against the house of Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.
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- 1 Kings 12:23
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“Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and the rest of the people
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- 1 Kings 14:21
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Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
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- 1 Kings 14:26
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He seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields that Solomon had made.
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- 2 Kings 21:7
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Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.
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- 2 Kings 23:13
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The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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- 2 Kings 24:13
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As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD.
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- 2 Kings 25:16
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As for the two pillars, the Sea, and the movable stands that Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.
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- 1 Chronicles 3:5
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and these sons were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon. These four were born to him by Bathsheba daughter of Ammiel.
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- 1 Chronicles 3:10
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Solomon’s son was Rehoboam: Abijah was his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
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- 1 Chronicles 6:10
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Johanan was the father of Azariah, who served as priest in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem,
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Source alternate reference: 5.36
- 1 Chronicles 6:32
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They ministered with song before the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem. And they performed their duties according to the regulations given them.
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Source alternate reference: 6.17
- 1 Chronicles 14:4
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These are the names of the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
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