1 Kings 9:1-28
9 And it came about that, as soon as Solʹo·mon had finished building the house+ of Jehovah and the house of the king+ and every desirable thing of Solʹo·mon that he took delight in making,+
2 then Jehovah appeared to Solʹo·mon the second time, the same as he had appeared to him in Gibʹe·on.+
3 And Jehovah went on to say to him: “I have heard your prayer+ and your request for favor with which you requested favor before me. I have sanctified+ this house that you have built by putting my name+ there to time indefinite; and my eyes+ and my heart will certainly prove to be there always.+
4 And you, if you will walk+ before me, just as David+ your father walked, with integrity+ of heart and with uprightness+ by doing according to all that I have commanded you,+ and you will keep my regulations+ and my judicial decisions,+
5 I also shall indeed establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel to time indefinite,* just as I promised David your father, saying, ‘Not a man of yours will be cut off from [sitting] upon the throne of Israel.’+
6 If YOU yourselves and YOUR sons should definitely turn back from following me+ and not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have put before YOU men, and YOU actually go and serve other gods+ and bow down to them,*
7 I will also cut Israel off from upon the surface of the ground that I have given to them;+ and the house that I have sanctified to my name I shall throw away* from before me,+ and Israel will indeed become a proverbial saying+ and a taunt among all the peoples.
8 And this house itself will become heaps of ruins.*+ Everyone passing by it will stare in amazement+ and will certainly whistle and say, ‘For what reason did Jehovah do like that to this land and this house?’+
9 And they will have to say, ‘For the reason that they left Jehovah their God who had brought their forefathers out from the land of Egypt,+ and they proceeded to take hold of other gods+ and bow down to them and serve them. That is why Jehovah brought upon them all this calamity.’”+
10 And it came about at the end of twenty years, in which Solʹo·mon built the two houses, the house of Jehovah+ and the house of the king,+
11 (Hiʹram+ the king of Tyre had himself assisted Solʹo·mon+ with timbers of cedar trees and timbers of juniper trees and with gold as much as he delighted in,)+ that at that time King Solʹo·mon proceeded to give to Hiʹram twenty cities in the land of Galʹi·lee.*+
12 Accordingly Hiʹram went out from Tyre to see the cities that Solʹo·mon had given him, and they were not just right in his eyes.+
13 So he said: “What sort of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?” And they came to be called the Land of Caʹbul* down to this day.
14 In the meantime Hiʹram sent to the king a hundred and twenty talents* of gold.+
15 Now this is the account of those conscripted for forced labor+ that King Solʹo·mon levied to build the house of Jehovah+ and his own house and the Mound*+ and the wall+ of Jerusalem and Haʹzor+ and Me·gidʹdo+ and Geʹzer.+
16 (Pharʹaoh the king of Egypt himself had come up and then captured Geʹzer and burned it with fire, and the Caʹnaan·ites+ dwelling in the city he had killed. So he gave it as a parting gift to his daughter,+ the wife of Solʹo·mon.)
17 And Solʹo·mon went on to build Geʹzer and Lower Beth-hoʹron,+
18 and Baʹal·ath+ and Taʹmar* in the wilderness, in the land,
19 and all the storage+ cities that became Solʹo·mon’s and the chariot cities+ and the cities for the horsemen, and the desirable things of Solʹo·mon+ that he had desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebʹa·non and in all the land of his dominion.
20 As for all the people remaining over from the Amʹor·ites,+ the Hitʹtites,+ the Perʹiz·zites,+ the Hiʹvites+ and the Jebʹu·sites,+ who were no part of the sons of Israel,+
21 their sons who had been left over after them in the land whom the sons of Israel had been unable to devote to destruction,+ Solʹo·mon kept levying them for slavish forced labor until this day.+
22 And there were none of the sons of Israel that Solʹo·mon constituted slaves;+ for they were the warriors and his servants and his princes and his adjutants and chiefs of his charioteers and of his horsemen.+
23 These were the chiefs of the deputies who were over the work of Solʹo·mon, five hundred and fifty, the foremen over the people who were active in the work.+
24 However, Pharʹaoh’s daughter+ herself came up out of the City of David+ to her own house that he had built for her. It was then that he built the Mound.+
25 And Solʹo·mon continued three+ times in the year to offer up burnt sacrifices and communion sacrifices upon the altar that he had built for Jehovah,+ and there was a making of sacrificial smoke* on the [altar],+ which was before Jehovah; and he completed the house.+
26 And there was a fleet of ships that King Solʹo·mon made in Eʹzi·on-geʹber,+ which is by Eʹloth,+ upon the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Eʹdom.+
27 And Hiʹram kept sending in the fleet of ships his own servants,+ seamen,* having a knowledge of the sea, along with the servants of Solʹo·mon.
28 And they proceeded to go to Oʹphir+ and take from there four hundred and twenty talents* of gold+ and bring it in to King Solʹo·mon.
Footnotes
^ Or, “over Israel forever.”
^ Or, “and worship them.”
^ “Become heaps of ruins,” by a minor correction to agree with SyIt; M, “become most prominent (outstanding; conspicuous).”
^ Or, “the circuit.” Heb., hag·Ga·lilʹ; Gr., Ga·li·laiʹai; Lat., Ga·li·leʹae. “Galilee” later designated the Roman province north of Samaria.
^ Or, “the Land as Good as Nothing”; perhaps, “the Fettered Land.”
^ See App 8A.
^ “The Mound.” Lit., “the filling [of earth].” Heb., ham·mil·lohʼʹ. Possibly a citadellike structure.
^ “There was a making of sacrificial smoke.” In Heb. this is a verb in the infinitive absolute, indefinite as to time and impersonal.
^ Lit., “men of ships.”
^ See App 8A.
