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1 Kings 9:8-10
Evangelical Heritage Version
1 Kings 9:8-10
Evangelical Heritage Version
8 Though this house is now exalted,[a] all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss[b] and say, “Why did the Lord do this to this land and to this house?”
9 They will reply, “Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and they embraced other gods and worshipped and served them. That is why the Lord brought all this evil on them.”
Solomon Completes His Projects
10 At the end of twenty years, when Solomon had completed these two buildings, the house of the Lord and the house of the king,
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- 1 Kings 9:8 The ancient versions read this house will become ruins.
- 1 Kings 9:8 Literally whistle, a derisive gesture
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