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so that your eyes may watch over this temple night and day,toward the place where you said,“My name will be there,”and so that you may hear the prayerthat your servant prays toward this place.

may you hear in heavenand forgive the sin of your servantsand your people Israel,so that you may teach them the good waythey should walk in.May you send rain on your landthat you gave your people for an inheritance.

so that they may fear youall the days they live on the landyou gave our ancestors.

May you forgive your peoplewho sinned against youand all their rebellions against you,and may you grant them compassionbefore their captors,so that they may treat them compassionately.

so that he causes us to be devoted to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commands, statutes, and ordinances, which he commanded our ancestors.

On the fifteenth day he sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went to their homes rejoicing and with happy hearts for all the goodness that the Lord had done for his servant David and for his people Israel.

So Hiram went out from Tyre to look over the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.

So he said, “What are these towns you’ve given me, my brother?” So he called them the Land of Cabul, as they are still called today.

Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord, and he burned incense with them in the Lord’s presence. So he completed the temple.

So Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too difficult for the king to explain to her.

He had commanded him about this, so that he would not follow other gods, but Solomon did not do what the Lord had commanded.

So the Lord raised up Hadad the Edomite as an enemy against Solomon. He was of the royal family in Edom.

Pharaoh liked Hadad so much that he gave him a wife, the sister of his own wife, Queen Tahpenes.

When Hadad heard in Egypt that David rested with his fathers and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me leave, so I may go to my own country.”

Now the man Jeroboam was capable, and Solomon noticed the young man because he was getting things done. So he appointed him over the entire labor force of the house of Joseph.

I will give one tribe to his son, so that my servant David will always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city I chose for myself to put my name there.

Rehoboam replied, “Go away for three days and then return to me.” So the people left.

So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had ordered: “Return to me on the third day.”

So the king sought advice.

Then the king responded to the man of God, “Plead for the favor of the Lord your God and pray for me so that my hand may be restored to me.” So the man of God pleaded for the favor of the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him and became as it had been at first.