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The Lord Appears to Solomon Again

(1 Kings 9.1-9)

11 The Lord's temple and Solomon's palace were now finished. In fact, everything Solomon had planned to do was completed.

12 Some time later, the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream and said:

I heard your prayer, and I have chosen this temple as the place where sacrifices will be offered to me.

13 Suppose I hold back the rain or send locusts[a] to eat the crops or make my people suffer with deadly diseases.

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Footnotes

  1. 7.13 locusts: See the note at 6.28.

The Lord Appears to Solomon(A)

11 When Solomon had finished(B) the temple of the Lord and the royal palace, and had succeeded in carrying out all he had in mind to do in the temple of the Lord and in his own palace, 12 the Lord appeared(C) to him at night and said:

“I have heard your prayer and have chosen(D) this place for myself(E) as a temple for sacrifices.

13 “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain,(F) or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people,

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