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I Kings Chapter 9

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In chapter 9 the king of Israel seeks counsel and records the wisdom of the prophets, especially the wisdom of King Solomon, to guide his decision about the temple and the land. He also records the wisdom of the prophets concerning the future, showing his reliance on divine guidance. The chapter highlights the importance of seeking wisdom and prophecy for right decisions.

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(1) And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
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I Kings 6:37I Kings 6:38I Kings 7:1I Kings 7:51II Chronicles 7:11II Chronicles 7:12II Chronicles 7:13II Chronicles 7:14II Chronicles 7:15II Chronicles 7:16II Chronicles 7:17II Chronicles 7:18

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II Chronicles 7:11Esther 8:8I Kings 7:1II Chronicles 5:1I Kings 9:11I Kings 10:13

(2) That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
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I Kings 3:5I Kings 11:9II Chronicles 1:7II Chronicles 1:8II Chronicles 1:9II Chronicles 1:10II Chronicles 1:11II Chronicles 1:12II Chronicles 7:12

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Genesis 12:7I Kings 3:5Daniel 8:1I Kings 11:9II Chronicles 3:1II Chronicles 7:12

(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.
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II Kings 20:5Psalms 10:17Psalms 66:19Psalms 116:1Daniel 9:23John 11:42Acts 10:31I John 5:14I Kings 8:10I Kings 8:11Exodus 20:11Numbers 16:38

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I Kings 8:28II Chronicles 6:19Ephesians 6:18

(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:
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I Kings 3:14I Kings 8:25I Kings 11:4I Kings 11:6I Kings 11:38I Kings 14:8I Kings 15:5Genesis 17:1Deuteronomy 28:1II Chronicles 7:17II Chronicles 7:18Job 23:11

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II Kings 8:12Exodus 15:26II Chronicles 7:17I Kings 6:12I Kings 11:38Zechariah 3:7

(5) Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
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I Kings 2:4I Kings 6:12I Kings 8:15I Kings 8:20II Samuel 7:12II Samuel 7:16I Chronicles 22:9I Chronicles 22:10Psalms 89:28Psalms 89:29Psalms 89:30Psalms 89:31

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Revelation 4:6I Kings 1:37I Kings 1:47I Kings 10:19II Kings 25:28II Chronicles 6:16

(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:
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I Samuel 2:30II Samuel 7:14II Samuel 7:15II Samuel 7:16I Chronicles 28:9II Chronicles 7:19II Chronicles 7:20II Chronicles 7:21II Chronicles 7:22II Chronicles 15:2I Kings 11:4I Kings 11:5

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II Chronicles 7:19Joshua 24:15Judges 10:6Deuteronomy 7:4Deuteronomy 11:16Deuteronomy 12:30

(7) Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
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Leviticus 18:24Leviticus 18:25Leviticus 18:26Leviticus 18:27Leviticus 18:28Deuteronomy 4:26Deuteronomy 29:26Deuteronomy 29:27Deuteronomy 29:28II Kings 17:20II Kings 17:21II Kings 17:22

(8) And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
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II Chronicles 7:21Isaiah 64:11Jeremiah 19:8Jeremiah 49:17Jeremiah 50:13Daniel 9:12Deuteronomy 29:24Deuteronomy 29:25Deuteronomy 29:26Jeremiah 22:8Jeremiah 22:9Jeremiah 22:28

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I Samuel 1:8Jeremiah 19:8

(9) And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
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Deuteronomy 29:25Deuteronomy 29:26Deuteronomy 29:27Deuteronomy 29:28II Chronicles 7:22Jeremiah 2:10Jeremiah 2:11Jeremiah 2:12Jeremiah 2:13Jeremiah 2:19Jeremiah 5:19Jeremiah 16:10

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Judges 10:6II Chronicles 7:22Deuteronomy 29:26Jeremiah 22:9Deuteronomy 17:3Joshua 24:15

(10) And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house,
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I Kings 9:1I Kings 6:37I Kings 6:38I Kings 7:1II Chronicles 8:1II Chronicles 8:2II Chronicles 8:3II Chronicles 8:4II Chronicles 8:5II Chronicles 8:6II Chronicles 8:7II Chronicles 8:8

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I Kings 5:11II Chronicles 2:10II Chronicles 8:1Esther 8:8I Kings 6:2I Kings 6:16

(11) (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
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I Kings 5:6I Kings 5:7I Kings 5:8I Kings 5:9I Kings 5:10II Chronicles 2:8II Chronicles 2:9II Chronicles 2:10II Chronicles 2:16II Chronicles 8:2Joshua 20:7

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I Kings 5:10I Kings 5:11II Chronicles 2:8I Kings 5:8I Kings 5:1Leviticus 23:40

(12) And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
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Numbers 22:34Judges 14:3

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I Kings 9:11I Kings 5:1I Kings 5:11I Kings 7:13I Kings 5:12I Kings 7:40

(13) And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.
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I Kings 5:1I Kings 5:2Amos 1:9Joshua 19:27

(14) And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
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I Kings 9:11I Kings 9:28I Kings 10:10I Kings 10:14I Kings 10:21

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I Chronicles 29:7Matthew 25:20Ezra 8:26Matthew 25:22

(15) And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
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I Kings 9:21I Kings 5:13I Kings 9:10I Kings 6:38I Kings 7:1II Chronicles 8:1I Kings 9:24I Kings 11:27Judges 9:6Judges 9:20II Samuel 5:9II Kings 12:20

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II Chronicles 32:5I Kings 5:13I Kings 9:19I Kings 9:24II Chronicles 8:6Psalms 127:1

(16) For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.
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I Kings 9:24I Kings 3:1

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Judges 1:29Joshua 16:10Luke 12:53Exodus 2:15Deuteronomy 1:4Nehemiah 11:3

(18) And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
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Joshua 19:44II Chronicles 8:4

(19) And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
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I Kings 4:26I Kings 4:27I Kings 4:28Exodus 1:11I Kings 9:1Ecclesiastes 2:10Ecclesiastes 6:9

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II Chronicles 8:6I Kings 10:26II Chronicles 1:14I Kings 1:51I Kings 1:53II Chronicles 9:1

(20) And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
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II Chronicles 8:7II Chronicles 8:8II Chronicles 8:9II Chronicles 8:10II Chronicles 8:11II Chronicles 8:12II Chronicles 8:13II Chronicles 8:14II Chronicles 8:15II Chronicles 8:16II Chronicles 8:17II Chronicles 8:18

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Exodus 3:8Exodus 3:17Exodus 23:23Deuteronomy 7:1Deuteronomy 20:17Joshua 3:10

(21) Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
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Judges 1:21Judges 1:27Judges 1:28Judges 1:29Judges 1:30Judges 1:31Judges 1:32Judges 1:33Judges 1:34Judges 1:35Judges 2:20Judges 2:21

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Joshua 11:20I Samuel 15:9II Chronicles 20:23Amos 9:8Matthew 10:28II Chronicles 7:7

(22) But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
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Leviticus 25:39I Kings 4:1I Kings 4:2I Kings 4:3I Kings 4:4I Kings 4:5I Kings 4:6I Kings 4:7I Kings 4:8I Kings 4:9I Kings 4:10I Kings 4:11

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II Chronicles 8:9I Kings 10:26I Chronicles 28:1II Chronicles 1:14II Chronicles 21:9I Samuel 8:12

(23) These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.
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I Kings 5:16II Chronicles 2:18II Chronicles 8:10

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II Chronicles 8:10Genesis 18:28Ezekiel 48:16Matthew 25:20II Kings 1:13Ezekiel 48:17

(24) But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.
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I Kings 9:16I Kings 3:1I Kings 7:8II Chronicles 8:11II Samuel 5:9I Kings 9:15I Kings 11:27II Chronicles 32:5

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Luke 12:53I Kings 9:15I Kings 9:19II Chronicles 8:6Psalms 127:1Genesis 36:2

(25) And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house.
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Exodus 23:14Exodus 23:15Exodus 23:16Exodus 23:17Exodus 34:23Deuteronomy 16:16II Chronicles 8:12II Chronicles 8:13Exodus 30:7I Chronicles 23:13II Chronicles 26:16II Chronicles 26:17

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39II Chronicles 7:7Ezekiel 45:17Amos 5:22Deuteronomy 12:6

(26) And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
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II Chronicles 8:12II Chronicles 8:17II Chronicles 8:18I Kings 22:48Numbers 33:35Deuteronomy 2:8II Kings 14:22

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II Chronicles 8:17Leviticus 23:38II Samuel 8:14I Kings 10:13I Kings 22:48II Chronicles 8:18

(27) And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
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I Kings 5:6I Kings 5:9I Kings 22:49II Chronicles 20:36II Chronicles 20:37

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I Kings 5:11I Kings 9:11I Kings 10:22II Chronicles 8:18I Kings 5:1I Kings 5:12

(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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I Kings 10:11Genesis 10:29I Chronicles 29:4II Chronicles 8:18II Chronicles 9:10Job 22:24Job 28:16Psalms 45:9Isaiah 13:12

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II Chronicles 8:18Ezekiel 48:16Revelation 4:4I Kings 5:11II Chronicles 2:10I Chronicles 29:7

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