1 Kings 9:8-10

Tree of Life Version

⁸ This House, now so exalted—everyone passing by it will gasp in shock and hiss, saying: ‘Why has Adonai done thus to this land and to this House?’ ⁹ They will be told: ‘Because they forsook Adonai their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, worshipped them and served them, therefore Adonai has brought all this evil on them.’”

Solomon’s Economic Achievements

¹⁰ Now at the end of 20 years during which Solomon had built the two houses—Adonai’s House and the royal palace—