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highlighted 1 Kings 9:15 NLT
This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon conscripted to build the LORD’s Temple, the royal palace, the supporting terraces, the wall of Jerusalem, and the cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
Mar 19
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highlighted 1 Kings 9:14 NLT
Nevertheless, Hiram paid Solomon 9,000 pounds of gold.
Mar 19
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highlighted 1 Kings 9:13 NLT
“What kind of towns are these, my brother?” he asked. So Hiram called that area Cabul (which means “worthless”), as it is still known today.
Mar 19
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highlighted 1 Kings 9:12 NLT
But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns Solomon had given him, he was not at all pleased with them.
Mar 19
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highlighted 1 Kings 9:11 NLT
he gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to King Hiram of Tyre. (Hiram had previously provided all the cedar and cypress timber and gold that Solomon had requested.)
Mar 19
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highlighted 1 Kings 9:8-9 NLT
And though this Temple is impressive now, all who pass by will be appalled and will gasp in horror. They will ask, ‘Why did the LORD do such terrible things to this land and to this Temple?’ “And the answer will be, ‘Because his people abandoned the LORD their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and they worshiped other gods instead and bowed down to them. That is why the LORD has brought all these disasters on them.’”
Mar 19
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highlighted 1 Kings 9:6-7 NLT
“But if you or your descendants abandon me and disobey the commands and decrees I have given you, and if you serve and worship other gods, then I will uproot Israel from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make Israel an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations.
Mar 19
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highlighted 1 Kings 9:4-5 NLT
“As for you, if you will follow me with integrity and godliness, as David your father did, obeying all my commands, decrees, and regulations, then I will establish the throne of your dynasty over Israel forever. For I made this promise to your father, David: ‘One of your descendants will always sit on the throne of Israel.’
Mar 19
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highlighted 1 Kings 9:3 NLT
The LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your petition. I have set this Temple apart to be holy—this place you have built where my name will be honored forever. I will always watch over it, for it is dear to my heart.
Mar 19
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highlighted 1 Kings 9:2 NLT
Then the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had done before at Gibeon.
Mar 19
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highlighted 1 Kings 8:40-41 NLT
Then they will fear you as long as they live in the land you gave to our ancestors. “In the future, foreigners who do not belong to your people Israel will hear of you. They will come from distant lands because of your name,
Mar 19
Storyteller7777
highlighted 1 Kings 8:39 NLT
then hear from heaven where you live, and forgive. Give your people what their actions deserve, for you alone know each human heart.
Mar 19
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highlighted 1 Kings 7:51 NLT
So King Solomon finished all his work on the Temple of the LORD. Then he brought all the gifts his father, David, had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the various articles—and he stored them in the treasuries of the LORD’s Temple.
Mar 18
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highlighted 1 Kings 7:50 NLT
the small bowls, lamp snuffers, bowls, ladles, and incense burners—all of solid gold; the doors for the entrances to the Most Holy Place and the main room of the Temple, with their fronts overlaid with gold.
Mar 18
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highlighted 1 Kings 7:49 NLT
the lampstands of solid gold, five on the south and five on the north, in front of the Most Holy Place; the flower decorations, lamps, and tongs—all of gold;
Mar 18
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highlighted 1 Kings 7:48 NLT
Solomon also made all the furnishings of the Temple of the LORD: the gold altar; the gold table for the Bread of the Presence;
Mar 18
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highlighted 1 Kings 7:47 NLT
Solomon did not weigh all these things because there were so many; the weight of the bronze could not be measured.
Mar 18
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highlighted 1 Kings 7:40 NLT
He also made the necessary washbasins, shovels, and bowls. So at last Huram completed everything King Solomon had assigned him to make for the Temple of the LORD:
Mar 18
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highlighted 1 Kings 7:33 NLT
and were similar to chariot wheels. The axles, spokes, rims, and hubs were all cast from molten bronze.
Mar 18
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highlighted 1 Kings 7:29 NLT
Both the panels and the crossbars were decorated with carved lions, oxen, and cherubim. Above and below the lions and oxen were wreath decorations.
Mar 18