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Passage Lookup: 1 Kings 9:1-9
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9 verses
New International Version (1984 Edition)
1 Kings 9:1
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When Solomon had finished building the temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all he had desired to do,
1 Kings 9:2
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the LORD appeared to him a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
1 Kings 9:3
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The LORD said to him: "I have heard the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.
1 Kings 9:4
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"As for you, if you walk before me in integrity of heart and uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws,
1 Kings 9:5
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I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father when I said, 'You shall never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.'
1 Kings 9:6
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"But if you (F54) or your sons turn away from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you (F55) and go off to serve other gods and worship them,
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1 Kings 9:7
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then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. Israel will then become a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.
1 Kings 9:8
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And though this temple is now imposing, all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff and say, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?'
1 Kings 9:9
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People will answer, 'Because they have forsaken the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them-that is why the LORD brought all this disaster on them.' "
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