1Now when Solomon had finished building the house…
2the LORD appeared to him a second time,…
3And the LORD said to him: “I have…
4And as for you, if you walk before…
5then I will establish your royal throne over…
6But if indeed you or your sons turn…
7then I will cut off Israel from the…
8And when this temple has become a heap…
9And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken…
10Now at the end of the twenty years…
11King Solomon gave twenty towns in the land…
12So Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect…
13“What are these towns you have given me,…
14And Hiram had sent the king 120 talents…
15This is the account of the forced labor…
16Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured…
17So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,
18Baalath, and Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,
19as well as all the store cities that…
20As for all the people who remained of…
21their descendants who remained in the land, those…
22But Solomon did not consign any of the…
23They were also the chief officers over Solomon’s…
24As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up…
25Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings…
26King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships…
27And Hiram sent his servants, sailors who knew…
28They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from…
