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9 When Solomon had finished building the House of the LORD, and the king’s palace, and all of Solomon desires which it pleased him to do,
2 then the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as He appeared to him at Gibeon.
3 And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before Me. I have sanctified this House which you have built to put My Name there forever. And My Eyes and My Heart shall be there perpetually.
4 “And if you will walk before Me, as David your father walked in pureness of heart and in righteousness, to do according to all that I have Commanded you, and keep My Statutes and My Judgments,
5 “then will I establish the throne of your kingdom upon Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man upon the throne of Israel.’
6 “If you and your children turn away from Me, and will not keep My Commandments, My Statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,
7 “then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them. And I will cast the House which I have sanctified for My Name out of My sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a common talk among all people.
8 “Even this high House shall be so. Everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss, and they shall say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this House?’
9 “And they shall answer, ‘Because they forsook the LORD their God, Who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them. Therefore, the LORD has brought all this misery upon them.’”
10 And at the end of twenty years, after Solomon had built the two houses (the House of the LORD and the king’s palace,
11 for which Hiram the king of Tyre had brought timber from cedar and fir trees to Solomon, and gold, and whatever he desired), then King Solomon gave twenty cities in the land of Galilee to Hiram.
12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him. And they did not please him.
13 Therefore he said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” And he called them the land of Cabul to this day.
14 And Hiram had sent the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.
15 And this is the reason for the tribute (why King Solomon raised tribute): to build the House of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
16 Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had come up and taken Gezer and burnt it with fire and killed the Canaanites who dwelt in the city and gave it for a present to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
17 Therefore, Solomon built Gezer and Beth Horon the lower,
18 and Baalath and Tadmor, in the wilderness of the land,
19 and all the cities of store that Solomon had (cities for chariots and cities for horsemen and all that Solomon desired and would build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his dominion).
20 All the people who were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel
21 (their children who were left after them in the land whom the children of Israel were not able to destroy), those Solomon made tributaries to this day.
22 But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondmen. But they were men of war and his servants and his princes and his captains and rulers of his chariots and his horsemen.
23 These were the princes of the officers who were over Solomon’s work: five hundred fifty. And they ruled the people who labored in the work.
24 And Pharaoh’s daughter came up from the City of David to the house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo.
25 And three times a year Solomon offered Burnt Offerings and Peace Offerings upon the Altar which he built to the LORD. And he burnt incense upon the Altar that was before the LORD, when he had finished the House.
26 Also, King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Elath and the edge of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
27 And Hiram sent his servants (who were mariners and had knowledge of the sea) with the navy, with the servants of Solomon.
28 And they came to Ophir and fetched four hundred twenty talents of gold from there and brought it to King Solomon.
10 And the Queen of Sheba, hearing the fame of Solomon concerning the Name of the LORD, came to test him with hard questions.
2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, camels that bore sweet odors and gold, exceedingly much, and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and spoke with him about all that was in her heart.
3 And Solomon answered all her questions. Nothing was hidden from the king which he could not expound to her.
4 Then the Queen of Sheba saw all Solomon’s wisdom, and the House that he had built,
5 and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the order of his ministers, and their apparel, and his drinking vessels, and his Burnt Offerings that he offered in the House of the LORD. And it took her breath away.
6 And she said to the king, “It was a true word that I heard in my own land of your sayings, and of your wisdom!
7 “However, I did not believe this report until I came and had seen it with my eyes. But lo, one half was not told to me. You have more wisdom and goodness than I have heard reported.
8 “Your men are happy. Happy are these, your servants, who always stand before you and hear your wisdom.
9 “Blessed be the LORD your God, Who loved you, to set you on the throne of Israel because the LORD loved Israel forever, and made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”
10 And she gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and exceedingly many sweet odors, and precious stones. There was never so much such abundance of sweet odors as the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
11 Also, the navy of Hiram which carried gold from Ophir, brought a great plenty of Almuggim trees from Ophir, and precious stones.
12 And the king made pillars for the House of the LORD from the Almuggim trees, and for the king’s palace, and made harps and psalteries for singers. No more such Almuggim trees ever came, nor were any more seen to this day.
13 And King Solomon gave to the Queen of Sheba whatever she asked (in addition to that which Solomon gave her of his kingly liberality). So, she returned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
14 Also, the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents of gold,
15 in addition to that of merchant men and of the merchandises of those who sold spices, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the princes of the country.
16 And King Solomon made two hundred shields of beaten gold, six hundred shekels of gold per shield:
17 And three hundred bucklers of beaten gold, three pounds of gold went to one buckler. And the king put them in the house of the wood of Lebanon.
18 Then the king made a great throne of ivory and covered it with the best gold.
19 And the throne had six steps. And the top of the throne was round behind. And there were stays on either side, on the place of the throne, and two lions standing by the stays.
20 And there stood twelve lions on the six steps on either side. There was nothing like it made in any kingdom.
21 And all King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold. And all the vessels of the house of the wood of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were silver. For it was nothing esteemed in the days of Solomon.
22 For the king had the navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram on the sea. The navy of Tarshish came every three years and brought gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.
23 So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the Earth, both in riches and in wisdom.
24 And all the world sought to see Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart.
25 And every man brought his present: vessels of silver and vessels of gold and raiment and armor and sweet odors, horses and mules, from year to year.
26 Then Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. And he had a thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he placed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.
27 And the king gave silver in Jerusalem as stones and gave cedars as the wild fig trees that grow abundantly in the plain.
28 Also, Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and fine linen. The king’s merchants received the linen for a price.
29 There came up and went out of Egypt chariots worth six hundred shekels of silver, one horse being a hundred fifty. And thus they brought horses to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram, according to their means.
14 Now when the Apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the Word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.
15 Who, when they had come down, prayed for them to receive the Holy Ghost.
16 For as yet He had not fallen down on any of them. But they had been baptized only in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
17 Then they laid their hands on them. And they received the Holy Ghost.
18 And when Simon saw that through laying on of the Apostles’ hands, the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,
19 saying, “Give me this power also! So that whomever I lay hands upon may receive the Holy Ghost!”
20 Then Peter said to him, “Your money dies with you because you think that the gift of God may be obtained with money.
21 “You have neither part nor fellowship in this Word. For your heart is not right in the sight of God.
22 “Therefore repent of this, your wickedness. And pray to God that if it be possible, the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
23 “For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.”
24 Then Simon answered, and said, “Pray to the Lord for me, that none of these things which you have spoken come upon me!”
25 So after they had testified and preached the Word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem and preached the Gospel in many Samaritan towns.
26 Then the Angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go towards the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, which is a wasteland.”
27 And he arose and went on. And behold, a certain eunuch of Ethiopia (Candace the Queen of the Ethiopians’ Chief Governor, who had the rule over all her treasure) who came to Jerusalem to worship,
28 was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he read Isaiah the Prophet.
29 Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Go near and enjoin this chariot.”
30 And Philip ran there, and heard him read the Prophet Isaiah, and said, “But do you understand what you read?”
31 And he said, “How can I unless I have a guide?” And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him.
32 Now the place of the Scripture which he read was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. And like a lamb, mute before his shearer, so also did He not open His mouth.
33 “In His humility, His judgment has been exalted. But who shall declare His generation? For His life is taken from the Earth.”
34 And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, “I ask you, of Whom does the Prophet say this, of himself, or of some other Man?”
35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same Scripture, and preached Jesus to him.
36 And as they went on their way, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, “See, here is water. What must I do to be baptized?”
37 And Philip said to him, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” Then he answered, and said, “I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”
38 Then he commanded the chariot to stop. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water. And he baptized him.
39 And as soon as they had come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more. So, he went on his way, rejoicing.
40 But Philip was found at Azotus. And he walked to and fro, preaching in all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.
130 Out of the deep places have I called to You, O LORD.
2 LORD, hear my voice. Let Your ears attend to the voice of my prayers.
3 If You, O LORD, straightly mark iniquities, O LORD, who shall stand?
4 But mercy is with You, so that You may be feared.
5 I have waited on the LORD. My soul has waited; and I have trusted in His word.
6 My soul waits on the LORD more than the morning watch watches for the morning.
7 Let Israel wait on the LORD, for with the LORD is mercy and with Him is great redemption.
8 And He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities. A song of degrees, or Psalm, of Solomon
2 A discrete servant shall have rule over a lewd son. And he shall divide the heritage among the brothers.
3 The refining pot for silver and the furnace for gold; so the LORD tries the hearts.
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