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1 Kings 9:9-11
New English Translation
1 Kings 9:9-11
New English Translation
9 Others will then answer,[a] ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors[b] out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served.[c] That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”
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10 After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and the royal palace,[d] 11 King Solomon gave King Hiram of Tyre twenty towns in the region of Galilee, because Hiram had supplied Solomon with cedars, evergreens, and all the gold he wanted.
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- 1 Kings 9:9 tn Heb “and they will say.”
- 1 Kings 9:9 tn Heb “fathers.”
- 1 Kings 9:9 tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”
- 1 Kings 9:10 tn Heb “the two houses, the house of the Lord and the house of the king.”
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