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1 Kings 9
1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the
building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all
Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time,
as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
3 And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer
and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have
hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there
for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father
walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do
according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my
statutes and my judgments:
5 Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon
Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There
shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
6 But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or
your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes
which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and
worship them:
7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I
have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my
name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb
and a byword among all people:
8 And at this house, which is high, every one that
passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall
say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this
house?
9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD
their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of
Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped
them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them
all this evil.
10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years,
when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and
the king's house,
11 (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon
with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all
his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in
the land of Galilee.
12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities
which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
13 And he said, What cities are these which thou hast
given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto
this day.
14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
15 And this is the reason of the levy which king
Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own
house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and
Megiddo, and Gezer.
16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and
taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites
that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his
daughter, Solomon's wife.
17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,
18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the
land,
19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and
cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that
which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and
in all the land of his dominion.
20 And all the people that
were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and
Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
21 Their children
that were left after them in the land, whom the children of
Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did
Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
22 But of the
children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men
of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and
rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
23 These were the
chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred
and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the
work.
24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of
David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he
build Millo.
25 And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt
offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto
the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the
LORD. So he finished the house.
26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber,
which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land
of Edom.
27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen
that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence
gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king
Solomon.