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and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and thee, and wilt keep my ordinances, and my judg-
twenty thousand sheep so the king, and all the ments,
children of Israel, dedicated the temple of the 5 I will establish the throne of thy kingdom
Lord. over Israel for ever, as I promised David, thy
64 In that day the king sanctified the middle father, saying: There shall not fail a man of thy
of the court, that was before the house of the race upon the throne of Israel.
Lord for there he offered the holocaust, and sac- 6 But if you and your children, revolting, shall
rifice, and the fat of the peace offerings: because turn away from following me, and will not keep
the brazen altar that was before the Lord, was my commandments, and my ceremonies, which
too little to receive the holocaust, and sacrifice, I have set before you, but will go and worship
and the fat of the peace offerings. strange gods, and adore them:
65 And Solomon made at the same time a 7 I will take away Israel from the face of the
solemn feast, and all Israel with him, a great land which I have given them; and the temple
multitude, from the entrance of Emath to the which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast
river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb,
days and seven days, that is, fourteen days. and a byword among all people.
66 And on the eighth day, he sent away the 8 And this house shall be made an example
people: and they blessed the king, and went to of: every one that shall pass by it, shall be as-
their dwellings, rejoicing, and glad in heart, for tonished, and shall hiss, and say: Why hath the
all the good things that the Lord had done for Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?
David, his servant, and for Israel, his people. 9 And they shall answer: Because they forsook
the Lord their God, who brought their fathers
out of the land of Egypt, and followed strange
Chapter 9 gods, and adored them, and worshipped them:
therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all
And it came to pass when Solomon had finished this evil.
the building of the house of the Lord, and the 10 And when twenty years were ended, after
king’s house, and all that he desired and was Solomon had built the two houses; that is, the
pleased to do, house of the Lord, and the house of the king,
2 That the Lord appeared to him the second 11 (Hiram, the king of Tyre, furnishing
time, as he had appeared to him in Gabaon. Solomon with cedar trees, and fir trees, and gold,
3 And the Lord said to him: I have heard according to all he had need of) then Solomon
thy prayer and thy supplication, which thou hast gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
made before me: I have sanctified this house, 12 And Hiram came out of Tyre, to see the
which thou hast built, to put my name there for towns which Solomon had given him, and they
ever; and my eyes, and my heart, shall be there pleased him not;
always. 13 And he said: Are these the cities which
4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as thy fa- thou hast given me, brother? And he called them
ther walked, in simplicity of heart, and in up- the land of Chabul, unto this day.
rightness: and wilt do all that I have commanded 14 And Hiram sent to king Solomon a hundred