heart shall be there perpetually.
[17] And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father
walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statues and my
judgments;
[18] Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David
thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.
[19] But if ye turn away, and forsake
my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods,
and worship them;
[20] Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and
this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb
and a byword among all nations.
[21] And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every
one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this
house?
[22] And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought
them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore
hath he brought all this evil upon them.
2Chr.8
[1] And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD,
and his own house,
[2] That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and
caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
[3] And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against
it.
[4] And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.
[5] Also
he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
[6]
And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the
horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the
land of his dominion.
[7] As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,
[8] But of their children, who were
left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay
tribute until this day.
[9] But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they
were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.
[10] And these
were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.
[11]
And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had
built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places
are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.
[12] Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the
LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,
[13] Even after a certain rate every
day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and
on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast
of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
[14] And he appointed, according to the order of David his
father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister
before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for
so had David the man of God commanded.
[15] And they departed not from the commandment of the
king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
[16] Now all the
work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it
was finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected.
[17] Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to
Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.
[18] And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships,
and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and
took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
2Chr.9
[1] And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard
questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance,
and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in
her heart.
[2] And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which
he told her not.
[3] And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house
that he had built,
[4] And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his
ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up