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Chapter 1
1: Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
2: Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the kinga young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
3: So they sought for a fair dams ......More in This 1st_Kings Book
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Chapter 2
1: Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,
2: I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and show thyself a man;
3: And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Mo ......More in This 1st_Kings Book
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Chapter 3
1: And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of buildinghis own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
2: Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name ofthe LORD, until those days.
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Chapter 4
1: So king Solomon was king over all Israel.
2: And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,
3: Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, therecorder.
4: And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
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Chapter 5
1: And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that theyhad anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
2: And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
3: Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of theLORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until ......More in This 1st_Kings Book
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Chapter 6
1: And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon'sreign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
2: And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubi ......More in This 1st_Kings Book
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Chapter 7
1: But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all hishouse.
2: He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
3: And it was covered with cedar a ......More in This 1st_Kings Book
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Chapter 8
1: Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, thechief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2: And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
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Chapter 9
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,
2: That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
3: And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before m ......More in This 1st_Kings Book
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Chapter 10
1: And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.
2: And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
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