1 Kings 9:8-10

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁸ This house shall become a heap of ruins; every passerby shall be astonished and shall hiss [with surprise] and say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?

⁹ Then they will answer, Because they forsook the Lord their God, Who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have laid hold of other gods and have worshiped and served them; therefore the Lord has brought on them all this evil.

¹⁰ At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the Lord’s house and the king’s house,