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'Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I did not choose a city of all the families of Israel in which to build a house that My name might be there. But I chose David to be king over My people Israel.'

But the Lord said to my father David, ‘Because it was in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it was in your heart.

But you will not build the house. Your son who will be born to you will build the house for My name.'

"But is it true that God will live on the earth? See, heaven and the highest heaven are not big enough to hold You. How much less this house which I have built!

But keep in mind the prayer of Your servant, O Lord my God. Listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays to You today.

"When Your people Israel do not win in battle over those who hate them, because they have sinned against You, but if they turn to You again and call on Your name and pray to You in this house,

But if you or your sons turn away from following Me, and do not keep My Laws which I have given you, and go after other gods and worship them, if you do,

But when Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities Solomon had given him, they did not please him.

But Solomon did not make the people of Israel work for him. For they were men of war, his servants, his rulers, his captains, his war-wagon drivers, and his horsemen.

But Pharaoh's daughter went up from the city of David to her own house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built the Millo.

But I did not believe the news until I came. Now my eyes have seen it. And half of it was not told to me. You have more wisdom and riches than I heard you had.

They were from the nations about which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, "Do not take wives from them. And do not have them take wives from you. For they will be sure to turn your heart away to follow their gods." But Solomon held on to these women in love.

and had told him about this, that he should not follow other gods. But Solomon did not obey what the Lord had told him.

But I will not do it while you are alive, because of your father David. I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

But I will not tear away all the nation. I will give one family group to your son because of My servant David, and because of Jerusalem which I have chosen."

But Hadad ran away to Egypt, together with certain Edomites of his father's servants, while Hadad was still a young boy.

But Hadad heard in Egypt that David and Joab the captain of David's army were dead. So Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Send me away, so I may return to my own country."

Pharaoh said to him, "But what have you been without while you stayed with me? Why do you want to go to your own country?" Hadad answered, "Nothing. But even so, let me go."

(But he will have one family group, because of My servant David and because of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen from all the families of Israel.)

But I will not take the whole nation from him. I will make him ruler all the days of his life, because of My servant David whom I chose, who kept My Word and My Laws.