1 Kings 9James 4.13->James 51 Kings 9
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Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires, which he had in mind were effected
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The Lord came to him again in a vision, as he had done at Gibeon
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And the Lord said to him, Your prayers and your requests for grace have come to my ears: I have made holy this house which you have made, and I have put my name there for ever my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.
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As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions
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Then I will make the seat of your rule over Israel certain for ever, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be king in Israel.
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But if you are turned from my ways, you or your children, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods and give them worship:
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Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.
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And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?
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And their answer will be, Because they were turned away from the Lord their God, who took their fathers out of the land of Egypt they took for themselves other gods and gave them worship and became their servants: that is why the Lord has sent all this evil on them.
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Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,
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(Hiram, king of Tyre, had given Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees and gold, as much as he had need of,) King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.
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But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns which Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.
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And he said, What sort of towns are these which you have given me, my brother? So they were named the land of Cabul, to this day.
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And Hiram sent the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.
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Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...
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Pharaoh, king of Egypt, came and took Gezer, burning it down and putting to death the Canaanites living in the town, and he gave it for a bride-offering to his daughter, Solomon's wife. ...
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...and Solomon was the builder of Gezer and Beth-horon the lower,
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And Baalath and Tamar in the waste land, in that land
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And all the store-towns and the towns which Solomon had for his war-carriages and for his horsemen, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.
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As for the rest of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not children of Israel
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Their children who were still in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not been able to put to complete destruction, them did Solomon put to forced work, to this day.
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But Solomon did not put the children of Israel to forced work they were the men of war, his servants, his captains, and his chiefs, captains of his war-carriages and of his horsemen.
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These were the chiefs of the overseers of Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, in authority over the people who did the work.
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At that time Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her: then he made the Millo.
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Three times in the year it was Solomon's way to give burned offerings and peace-offerings on the altar he had made to the Lord, causing his fire-offering to go up on the altar before the Lord.
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And King Solomon made a sea-force of ships in Ezion-geber, by Eloth, on the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
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Hiram sent his servants, who were experienced seamen, in the sea-force with Solomon's men.
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And they came to Ophir, where they got four hundred and twenty talents of gold, and took it back to King Solomon.
James 4
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How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:
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When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.
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But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.
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But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.
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The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
James 5
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Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.
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Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
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Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.
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See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.
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You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.
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You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.
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Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.
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Be as calm in your waiting let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.
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Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged see, the judge is waiting at the doors.
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Take as an example of pain nobly undergone and of strength in trouble, the prophets who gave to men the words of the Lord.
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We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.
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But most of all, my brothers, do not take oaths, not by the heaven, or by the earth, or by any other thing: but let your Yes be Yes, and your No be No: so that you may not be judged.
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Is anyone among you in trouble? let him say prayers. Is anyone glad? let him make a song of praise.
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Is anyone among you ill? let him send for the rulers of the church and let them say prayers over him, putting oil on him in the name of the Lord.
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And by the prayer of faith the man who is ill will be made well, and he will be lifted up by the Lord, and for any sin which he has done he will have forgiveness.
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So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.
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Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months.
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And he made another prayer, and the heaven sent down rain and the earth gave her fruit.
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My brothers, if one of you has gone out of the way of the true faith and another has made him see his error,
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Be certain that he through whom a sinner has been turned from the error of his way, keeps a soul from death and is the cause of forgiveness for sins without number.
