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1 Kings 9:18 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness, "

1 Kings 9:18

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16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

17 Solomon built in the land Gezer, Beth Horon the lower,

18 Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness,

19 all the storage cities that Solomon had, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

20 As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel—

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2 Chronicles 8:6

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"and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion."

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Joshua 19:44

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"Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,"

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Joshua 13:17

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"Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,"

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Deuteronomy 4:43

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"Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites."

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2 Chronicles 8:4

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"He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities, which he built in Hamath."

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1 Chronicles 27:28

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"Over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland was Baal Hanan the Gederite. Over the cellars of oil was Joash."

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1 Kings 9:1

"When Solomon had finished the building of the LORD’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,"

1 Kings 9:2

"The LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon."

1 Kings 9:3

"The LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually."

1 Kings 9:4

"As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances,"

1 Kings 9:5

"then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’"

1 Kings 9:6

"But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,"

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