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1 Kings 9 Summary
God's Covenant with Solomon
When Solomon finishes building the house of the LORD and his own house, the LORD appears to him a second time and declares that He has hallowed the house for His name forever, and His eyes and heart shall be there perpetually. God promises to establish Solomon's throne upon Israel forever if he walks before the LORD in integrity as David did and keeps the commandments and statutes. However, God warns that if Solomon or his children turn from following the LORD and serve other gods, He will cut off Israel from the land and cast the hallowed house out of His sight. After completing both houses and receiving gifts of cedar and fir from Hiram, Solomon gives Hiram twenty cities in Galilee, and Hiram sends him one hundred twenty talents of gold in return. Solomon builds multiple storage cities and a navy at Ezion-geber that brings gold from Ophir.
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Key verses
1 Kings 9:3
“And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.”
1 Kings 9:4
“And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:”
1 Kings 9:6
“But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:”
1 Kings 9:28
“And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.”
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