1 Kings 11

1 Kings 11:1 King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women

1 Kings 11:2 from the nations about which Yahveh had told the Israelites, “You must not marry them, and they must not marry you, because they will turn your heart away to follow their gods.” To these women Solomon was deeply attached in love.

1 Kings 11:3 He had seven hundred wives who were princesses and three hundred who were concubines, and they turned his heart away.

1 Kings 11:4 When Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away to follow other gods. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to Yahveh his God, as his father David had been.

1 Kings 11:5 Solomon followed Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom, the abhorrent idol of the Ammonites.

1 Kings 11:6 Solomon did what was evil in Yahveh’s sight, and unlike his father David, he did not remain loyal to Yahveh.

1 Kings 11:7 At that time, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abhorrent idol of Moab, and for Milcom, the abhorrent idol of the Ammonites, on the hill across from Jerusalem.

1 Kings 11:8 He did the same for all his foreign wives, who were burning incense and offering sacrifices to their gods.

1 Kings 11:9 Yahveh was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from Yahveh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.

1 Kings 11:10 He had commanded him about this, so that he would not follow other gods, but Solomon did not do what Yahveh had commanded.

1 Kings 11:11 Then Yahveh said to Solomon, “Since you have done this and did not keep my covenant and my statutes, which I commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.

1 Kings 11:12 However, I will not do it during your lifetime for the sake of your father David; I will tear it out of your son’s hand.

1 Kings 11:13 Yet I will not tear the entire kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem that I chose.”

1 Kings 11:14 So Yahveh raised up Hadad the Edomite as an enemy against Solomon. He was of the royal family in Edom.

1 Kings 11:15 Earlier, when David was in Edom, Joab, the commander of the army, had gone to bury the dead and had struck down every male in Edom.

1 Kings 11:16 For Joab and all Israel had remained there six months, until he had killed every male in Edom.

1 Kings 11:17 Hadad fled to Egypt, along with some Edomites from his father’s servants. At the time Hadad was a small boy.

1 Kings 11:18 Hadad and his men set out from Midian and went to Paran. They took men with them from Paran and went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house, ordered that he be given food, and gave him land.

1 Kings 11:19 Pharaoh liked Hadad so much that he gave him a wife, the sister of his own wife, Queen Tahpenes.

1 Kings 11:20 Tahpenes’s sister gave birth to Hadad’s son Genubath. Tahpenes herself weaned him in Pharaoh’s palace, and Genubath lived there along with Pharaoh’s sons.

1 Kings 11:21 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 land.”

1 Kings 11:22 But Pharaoh asked him, “What do you lack here with me for you to want to go back to your own land?” “Nothing,” he replied, “but please let me leave.”

1 Kings 11:23 God raised up Rezon son of Eliada as an enemy against Solomon. Rezon had fled from his master King Hadadezer of Zobah

1 Kings 11:24 and gathered men to himself. He became leader of a raiding party when David killed the Zobaites. He went to Damascus, lived there, and became king in Damascus.

1 Kings 11:25 Rezon was Israel’s enemy throughout Solomon’s reign, adding to the trouble Hadad had caused. He reigned over Aram and loathed Israel.

1 Kings 11:26 Now Solomon’s servant, Jeroboam son of Nebat, was an Ephraimite from Zeredah. His widowed mother’s name was Zeruah. Jeroboam rebelled against Solomon,

1 Kings 11:27 and this is the reason he rebelled against the king: Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the opening in the wall of the city of his father David.

1 Kings 11:28 Now the man Jeroboam was capable, and Solomon noticed the boy because he was getting things done. So he appointed him over the entire labor force of the house of Joseph.

1 Kings 11:29 During that time, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met Jeroboam on the road as Jeroboam came out of Jerusalem. Now Ahijah had wrapped himself with a new cloak, and the two of them were alone in the open field.

1 Kings 11:30 Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he had on, tore it into twelve pieces,

1 Kings 11:31 and said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what Yahveh God of Israel says: ‘I am about to tear the kingdom out of Solomon’s hand. I will give you ten tribes,

1 Kings 11:32 but one tribe will remain his for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I chose out of all the tribes of Israel.

1 Kings 11:33 For they have abandoned me; they have bowed down to Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Milcom, the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in my ways to do what is right in my sight and to carry out my statutes and my judgments as his father David did.

1 Kings 11:34 ” ‘However, I will not take the whole kingdom from him but will let him be ruler all the days of his life for the sake of my servant David, whom I chose and who kept my commands and my statutes.

1 Kings 11:35 I will take ten tribes of the kingdom from his son and give them to you.

1 Kings 11:36 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.

1 Kings 11:37 I will appoint you, and you will reign as king over all you want, and you will be king over Israel.

1 Kings 11:38 ” ‘After that, if you obey all I command you, walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight in order to keep my statutes and my commands as my servant David did, I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give you Israel.

1 Kings 11:39 I will humble David’s descendants, because of their unfaithfulness, but not forever.'”

1 Kings 11:40 Therefore, Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but he fled to Egypt, to King Shishak of Egypt, where he remained until Solomon’s death.

1 Kings 11:41 The rest of the events of Solomon’s reign, along with all his accomplishments and his wisdom, are written in the Book of Solomon’s Events.

1 Kings 11:42 The length of Solomon’s reign in Jerusalem over all Israel totaled forty years.

1 Kings 11:43 Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam became king in his place.

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1 Kings 10

1 Kings 10:1 The queen of Sheba heard about Solomon’s fame connected with the name of Yahveh and came to test him with riddles.

1 Kings 10:2 She came to Jerusalem with a very large show of wealth, with camels bearing spices, gold in great abundance, and precious stones. She came to Solomon and spoke to him about everything that was on her mind.

1 Kings 10:3 So Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too difficult for the king to explain to her.

1 Kings 10:4 When the queen of Sheba observed all of Solomon’s wisdom, the palace he had built,

1 Kings 10:5 the food at his table, his servants’ residence, his attendants’ service and their attire, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he offered at Yahveh ‘s temple, there was no more breath[1] in her.

1 Kings 10:6 She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own land about your words and about your wisdom is true.

1 Kings 10:7 But I didn’t believe the reports until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, I was not even told half. Your wisdom and prosperity far exceed the report I heard.

1 Kings 10:8 How happy are your men. How happy are these servants of yours, who always stand in your presence hearing your wisdom.

1 Kings 10:9 Blessed be Yahveh your God! He delighted in you and put you on the throne of Israel, because of Yahveh ‘s eternal love for Israel. He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”

1 Kings 10:10 Then she gave the king four and a half tons of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again did such a quantity of spices arrive as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

1 Kings 10:11 In addition, Hiram’s fleet that carried gold from Ophir brought from Ophir a large quantity of almug wood and precious stones.

1 Kings 10:12 The king made the almug wood into steps for Yahveh ‘s temple and the king’s palace and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before did such almug wood arrive, and the like has not been seen again.

1 Kings 10:13 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba her every desire– whatever she asked — besides what he had given her out of his royal bounty. Then she, along with her servants, returned to her own land.

1 Kings 10:14 The weight of gold that came to Solomon annually was twenty-five tons,

1 Kings 10:15 besides what came from merchants, traders’ merchandise, and all the Arabian kings and governors of the land.

1 Kings 10:16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; fifteen pounds of gold went into each shield.

1 Kings 10:17 He made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; nearly four pounds of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

1 Kings 10:18 The king also made a large ivory throne and overlaid it with fine gold.

1 Kings 10:19 The throne had six steps; there was a rounded top at the back of the throne, armrests on either side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.

1 Kings 10:20 Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps, one at each end. Nothing like it had ever been made in any other kingdom.

1 Kings 10:21 All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, since it was considered as nothing in Solomon’s time,

1 Kings 10:22 for the king had ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

1 Kings 10:23 King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the land in riches and in wisdom.

1 Kings 10:24 The whole land wanted an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.

1 Kings 10:25 Every man would bring his annual tribute: items of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, and horses and mules.

1 Kings 10:26 Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen and stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.

1 Kings 10:27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar as abundant as sycamore in the Judean foothills.

1 Kings 10:28 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue. The king’s traders bought them from Kue at the going price.

1 Kings 10:29 A chariot was imported from Egypt for fifteen pounds of silver, and a horse for nearly four pounds. In the same way, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram through their agents.

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[1] רוּחַ = breath, wind. 1 Kings 10:5; 18:12, 45; 19:11; 21:5; 22:21, 22, 23, 24.

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1 Kings 9

1 Kings 9:1 When Solomon finished building the temple of Yahveh, the royal palace, and all that Solomon desired to do,

1 Kings 9:2 Yahveh appeared to Solomon a second time just as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

1 Kings 9:3 Yahveh said to him: I have heard your prayer and petition you have made before me. I have consecrated this temple you have built, to put my name there forever; my eyes and my heart will be always there.

1 Kings 9:4 As for you, if you walk before me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and in what is right, doing everything I have commanded you, and if you keep my statutes and ordinances,

1 Kings 9:5 I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David: You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.

1 Kings 9:6 If you or your sons turn away from following me and do not keep my commands — my statutes that I have set before you — and if you go and serve other gods and bow in worship to them,

1 Kings 9:7 I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, and I will reject the temple I have sanctified for my name. Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

1 Kings 9:8 Though this temple is now exalted, everyone who passes by will be appalled and will scoff. They will say: Why did Yahveh do this to this land and this temple?

1 Kings 9:9 Then they will say: Because they abandoned Yahveh their God who brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt. They held strongly to other gods and bowed in worship to them and served them. Because of this, Yahveh brought all this ruin on them.

1 Kings 9:10 At the end of twenty years during which Solomon had built the two houses, Yahveh ‘s temple and the royal palace —

1 Kings 9:11 King Hiram of Tyre having supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every wish — King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.

1 Kings 9:12 So Hiram went out from Tyre to look over the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.

1 Kings 9:13 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.

1 Kings 9:14 Now Hiram had sent the king nine thousand pounds of gold.

1 Kings 9:15 This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon had imposed to build Yahveh ‘s temple, his own palace, the supporting terraces, the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

1 Kings 9:16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He then burned it, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

1 Kings 9:17 Then Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,

1 Kings 9:18 Baalath, Tamar in the Wilderness of the land,

1 Kings 9:19 all the storage cities that belonged to Solomon, the chariot cities, the cavalry cities, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, or anywhere else in the land of his dominion.

1 Kings 9:20 As for all the peoples who remained of the Amorites, Hethites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not Israelites —

1 Kings 9:21 their descendants who remained in the land after them, those whom the Israelites were unable to set apart for destruction[1] — Solomon imposed forced labor on them; it is still this way today.

1 Kings 9:22 But Solomon did not consign the Israelites to slavery; they were soldiers, his servants, his commanders, his captains, and commanders of his chariots and his cavalry.

1 Kings 9:23 These were the deputies who were over Solomon’s work: 550 who supervised the people doing the work.

1 Kings 9:24 Pharaoh’s daughter moved from the city of David to the house that Solomon had built for her; he then built the terraces.

1 Kings 9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for Yahveh, and he burned incense with them in Yahveh ‘s presence. So, he completed the temple.

1 Kings 9:26 King Solomon put together a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Edom.

1 Kings 9:27 With the fleet, Hiram sent his servants, experienced seamen, along with Solomon’s servants.

1 Kings 9:28 They went to Ophir and acquired gold there — sixteen tons — and delivered it to Solomon.

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[1] חָרָם = set apart for destruction. 1 Kings 9:21.

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1 Kings 8

1 Kings 8:1 At that time Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all the tribal heads and the ancestral leaders of the Israelites before him at Jerusalem to bring the ark of Yahveh ‘s covenant from the city of David, that is Zion.

1 Kings 8:2 So all the men of Israel were assembled in the presence of King Solomon in the month of Ethanim, which is the seventh month, at the festival.

1 Kings 8:3 All the elders of Israel came, and the priests lifted up the ark.

1 Kings 8:4 The priests and the Levites brought the ark of Yahveh, the tent of meeting, and the holy utensils that were in the tent.

1 Kings 8:5 King Solomon and the entire congregation of Israel, who had gathered around him and were with him in front of the ark, were sacrificing sheep, goats, and cattle that could not be counted or numbered, because there were so many.

1 Kings 8:6 The priests brought the ark of Yahveh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the temple, to the most holy place beneath the wings of the cherubim.

1 Kings 8:7 Because the cherubs were spreading their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubs covered the ark and its poles from above.

1 Kings 8:8 The poles were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen from outside the sanctuary; they are still there today.

1 Kings 8:9 Nothing was in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had put there at Horeb, where Yahveh made a covenant with the Israelites when they came out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 8:10 When the priests came out of the holy place, the cloud filled Yahveh’s temple,

1 Kings 8:11 and because of the cloud, the priests were not able to stay ministering, for the glory of Yahveh filled the temple.

1 Kings 8:12 Then Solomon said: Yahveh said that he would dwell in total darkness.

1 Kings 8:13 I have indeed built an exalted temple for you, a place for your dwelling forever.

1 Kings 8:14 The king turned around and blessed the entire congregation of Israel while they were standing.

1 Kings 8:15 He said: Blessed be Yahveh God of Israel! He spoke directly to my father David, and he has fulfilled the promise by his power. He said,

1 Kings 8:16 “Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city to build a temple in among any of the tribes of Israel, so that my name would be there. But I have chosen David to rule my people, Israel.”

1 Kings 8:17 My father David had his heart set on building a temple for the name of Yahveh, the God of Israel.

1 Kings 8:18 But Yahveh said to my father David, “Since your heart was set on building a temple for my name, you have done well to have this desire.

1 Kings 8:19 Yet you are not the one to build it; instead, your son, your own offspring, will build it for my name.”

1 Kings 8:20 Yahveh has fulfilled what he promised. I have taken the place of my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahveh promised. I have built the temple for the name of Yahveh, the God of Israel.

1 Kings 8:21 I have provided a place there for the ark, where Yahveh’s covenant is that he made with our ancestors when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 8:22 Then Solomon stood before the altar of Yahveh in front of the entire congregation of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky.[1]

1 Kings 8:23 He said: Lord God of Israel, there is no God like you in the sky above or on land below, who keeps the gracious covenant with your servants who walk before you with all their heart.

1 Kings 8:24 You have kept what you promised to your servant, my father David. You spoke directly to him and you fulfilled your promise by your power as it is today.

1 Kings 8:25 Therefore, Lord God of Israel, keep what you promised to your servant, my father David: You will never fail to have a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take care to walk before me as you have walked before me.

1 Kings 8:26 Now God of Israel, please confirm what you promised to your servant, my father David.

1 Kings 8:27 But will God indeed live in the land? Even the sky, the highest sky, cannot contain you, much less this temple I have built.

1 Kings 8:28 Listen to your servant’s prayer and his petition, Yahveh my God, so that you may hear the cry and the prayer that your servant prays before you today,

1 Kings 8:29 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 prayer that your servant prays toward this place.

1 Kings 8:30 Hear the petition of your servant and your people Israel, which they pray toward this place. May you hear in your dwelling place in the sky. May you hear and forgive.

1 Kings 8:31 When a man sins against his neighbor and is forced to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before your altar in this temple,

1 Kings 8:32 may you hear in the sky and act. May you judge your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing what he has done on his own head and providing justice for the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

1 Kings 8:33 When your people Israel are defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against you, and they return to you and praise your name, and they pray and plead with you for mercy in this temple,

1 Kings 8:34 may you hear in the sky and forgive the sin of your people Israel. May you restore them to the land you gave their ancestors.

1 Kings 8:35 When the skies are shut and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you, and they pray toward this place and praise your name, and they turn from their sins because you are afflicting them,

1 Kings 8:36 may you hear in the sky and forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, so that you may teach them the good way they should walk in. May you send rain on your land that you gave your people for an inheritance.

1 Kings 8:37 When there is famine in the land, when there is pestilence, when there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper, when their enemy besieges them in the land and its cities, when there is any plague or illness,

1 Kings 8:38 every prayer or petition that any person or that all your people Israel may have — they each know their own affliction — as they spread out their hands toward this temple,

1 Kings 8:39 may you hear in the sky, your dwelling place, and may you forgive, act, and give to everyone according to all their ways, since you know each heart, for you alone know every human heart,

1 Kings 8:40 so that they may fear you all the days they live on the land you gave our ancestors.

1 Kings 8:41 Even for the foreigner who is not of your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your name —

1 Kings 8:42 for they will hear of your great name, strong hand, and outstretched arm, and will come and pray toward this temple —

1 Kings 8:43 may you hear in the sky, your dwelling place, and do according to all the foreigner asks. Then all peoples of the land will know your name, to fear you as your people Israel do and to know that this temple that I have built bears your name.

1 Kings 8:44 When your people go out to fight against their enemies, wherever you send them, and they pray to Yahveh in the direction of the city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your name,

1 Kings 8:45 may you hear their prayer and petition in the sky and uphold their cause.

1 Kings 8:46 When they sin against you — for there is no one who does not sin — and you are angry with them and hand them over to the enemy, and their captors deport them to the enemy’s country — whether distant or nearby —

1 Kings 8:47 and when they come to their senses in the land where they were deported and repent and petition you in their captors’ land: “We have sinned and done wrong; we have been wicked,”

1 Kings 8:48 and when they return to you with all their heart and all their throat in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to you in the direction of their land that you gave their ancestors, the city you have chosen, and the temple I have built for your name,

1 Kings 8:49 may you hear in the sky, your dwelling place, their prayer and petition and uphold their cause.

1 Kings 8:50 May you forgive your people who sinned against you and all their rebellions against you, and may you grant them compassion before their captors, so that they may treat them compassionately.

1 Kings 8:51 For they are your people and your inheritance; you brought them out of Egypt, out of the middle of an iron furnace.

1 Kings 8:52 May your eyes be open to your servant’s petition and to the petition of your people Israel, listening to them whenever they call to you.

1 Kings 8:53 For you, Yahveh God, have set them apart as your inheritance from all peoples of the land, as you spoke through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.

1 Kings 8:54 When Solomon finished praying this entire prayer and petition to Yahveh, he got up from kneeling before the altar of Yahveh, with his hands spread out toward the sky,

1 Kings 8:55 and he stood and blessed the whole congregation of Israel with a loud voice:

1 Kings 8:56 “Blessed be Yahveh! He has given rest to his people Israel according to all he has said. Not one of all the good promises he made through his servant Moses has failed.

1 Kings 8:57 May Yahveh our God be with us as he was with our ancestors. May he not abandon us or leave us

1 Kings 8:58 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.

1 Kings 8:59 May my words with which I have made my petition before Yahveh be near Yahveh our God day and night. May he uphold his servant’s cause and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires.

1 Kings 8:60 May all the peoples of the land know that Yahveh is God. There is no other!

1 Kings 8:61 Be wholeheartedly devoted to Yahveh our God to walk in his statutes and to keep his commands, as it is today.”

1 Kings 8:62 The king and all Israel with him were offering sacrifices in Yahveh’s presence.

1 Kings 8:63 Solomon offered a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to Yahveh: twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred twenty thousand sheep and goats. In this manner the king and all the Israelites dedicated Yahveh’s temple.

1 Kings 8:64 On the same day, the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard that was in front of Yahveh’s temple because that was where he offered the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the fat of the fellowship offerings since the bronze altar before Yahveh was too small to accommodate the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the fellowship offerings.

1 Kings 8:65 Solomon and all Israel with him — a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of Egypt — observed the festival at that time in the presence of Yahveh our God, seven days, and seven more days– fourteen days.

1 Kings 8:66 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 Yahveh had done for his servant David and for his people Israel.

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[1] שָׁמַיִם = the sky. 1 Kings 8:22, 23, 27, 30, 32, 34, 36, 39, 43, 45, 49, 54; 21:24; 22:19; 2 Corinthians 5:2; 12:2.

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