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But we are happy, because everyone has voluntarily given you these things. You know what is in everyone's heart, and you are pleased when people are honest.

They wrote about his powerful rule and about the things that happened not only to him, but also to Israel and the other nations.

I am supposed to rule these people, but there are as many of them as there are specks of dust on the ground. So keep the promise you made to my father

So I will make you wise and intelligent. But I will also make you richer and more famous than any king before or after you.

Send me a worker who can not only carve, but who can work with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, as well as make brightly colored cloth. The person you send will work here in Judah and Jerusalem with the skilled workers that my father has already hired.

Praise the Lord God of Israel who made heaven and earth! He has given David a son who isn't only wise and smart, but who has the knowledge to build a temple for the Lord and a palace for himself.

His mother was from the Israelite tribe of Dan, and his father was from Tyre. Not only is Huram an expert at working with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, but he can also make colored cloth and fine linen. And he can carve anything if you give him a pattern to follow. He can help your workers and those hired by your father King David.

The sacred chest had been kept on Mount Zion, also known as the city of David. But Solomon decided to have the chest moved to the temple while everyone was in Jerusalem to celebrate the Festival of Shelters during the seventh month. Solomon called together all the important leaders of Israel.

The poles were so long that they could be seen from just outside the most holy place, but not from anywhere else. And they stayed there from then on.

But you're not the one to do it. Your son will build the temple to honor me."

But I ask you to answer my prayer.

Everyone sins. But when your people sin against you, suppose you get angry enough to let their enemies drag them away to foreign countries.

But if you or any of the people of Israel disobey my laws or start worshiping foreign gods,

This temple is now magnificent. But when these things happen, everyone who walks by it will be shocked and will ask, "Why did the Lord do such a terrible thing to his people and to this temple?"

Solomon did not force the Israelites to do his work. Instead, they were his soldiers, officers, army commanders, and cavalry troops. But he did make slaves of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites who were living in Israel. These were the descendants of those foreigners the Israelites did not destroy, and they remained Israel's slaves.

But I didn't believe it until I saw it with my own eyes! And there's so much I didn't hear about. You are greater than I was told.

"Your father Solomon forced us to work very hard. But if you make our work easier, we will serve you and do whatever you ask."

But Rehoboam refused their advice and went to the younger men who had grown up with him and were now his officials.

He made you work hard, but I'll make you work even harder. He punished you with whips, but I'll use whips with pieces of sharp metal!"

and told them exactly what his own advisors had suggested. He said: "My father made you work hard, but I'll make you work even harder. He punished you with whips, but I'll use whips with pieces of sharp metal!"