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Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Adonai the God of Isra'el;

Now Adonai has fulfilled this spoken word of his; for I have succeeded my father and sit on the throne of Isra'el, as Adonai promised; and I have built the house for the name of Adonai the God of Isra'el.

and said, " Adonai , God of Isra'el, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth below. You keep covenant with your servants and show them grace, provided they live in your presence with all their heart.

Now therefore, Adonai , God of Isra'el, keep what you promised to your servant David, my father, when you said, ‘You will never lack a man in my presence to sit on the throne of Isra'el, if only your children are careful about what they do, so that they live in my presence, just as you have lived in my presence.'

Now therefore, God of Isra'el, please let your word, which you spoke to your servant David, my father, be confirmed.

"But can God actually live on the earth? Why, heaven itself, even the heaven of heavens, cannot contain you; so how much less this house I have built?

Even so, Adonai my God, pay attention to your servant's prayer and plea, listen to the cry and prayer that your servant is praying before you today,

May Adonai our God be with us, as he was with our ancestors. May he never leave us or abandon us.

May these words of mine, which I have used in my plea before Adonai , be present with Adonai our God day and night, so that he will uphold the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Isra'el day by day.

Then all the peoples of the earth will know that Adonai is God; there is no other.

So be wholehearted with Adonai our God, living by his laws and observing his mitzvot, as you are doing today."

So Shlomo celebrated the festival at that time. All Isra'el, a huge gathering [that had come all the way] from the entrance of Hamat to the Vadi [of Egypt], celebrated with him before Adonai our God for seven days and then for seven more days — fourteen days in all.

But the answer will be, ‘It's because they abandoned Adonai their God, who brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt, and took hold of other gods, worshipping and serving them; this is why Adonai brought all these calamities on them.'"

Blessed be Adonai your God, who took pleasure in you to put you on the throne of Isra'el. Because of Adonai 's eternal love for Isra'el, he has made you king, to administer judgment and justice fairly."

All the earth sought to have an audience with Shlomo, in order to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

For when Shlomo became old, his wives turned his heart away toward other gods; so that he was not wholehearted with Adonai his God, as David his father had been.

So Adonai grew angry with Shlomo, because his heart had turned away from Adonai the God of Isra'el, who had appeared to him twice

God raised up another adversary against Shlomo, Rezon the son of Elyada, who had fled from his lord Hadad‘ezer king of Tzovah

Then he said to Yarov‘am, "Take ten pieces for yourself! For here is what Adonai the God of Isra'el says: ‘I am going to tear the kingdom out of Shlomo's hand, and I will give ten tribes to you.

I will do this because they have abandoned me and worshipped ‘Ashtoret the goddess of the Tzidoni, K'mosh the god of Mo'av and Milkom the god of the people of ‘Amon. They haven't lived according to my ways, so that they could do what was right in my view and obey my regulations and rulings, as did David his father.