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1 Now the time of David’s death came near; and he gave orders to Solomon his son, saying, 2 I

1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt,

1 Now Hiram, king of Tyre, hearing that Solomon had been made king in place of his father, sent his

1 Then Solomon sent for all the responsible men of Israel, and all the chiefs of the tribes, and the

1 Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete. 2 And he made the house

1 Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king’s house, and

1 Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites: