1KI-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,
1KI-9:2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he
had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
1KI-9:3 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.
1KI-9:4 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:
1KI-9:5 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.
1KI-9:6 [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:
1KI-9:7 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:
1KI-9:8 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?
1KI-9:9 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.
1KI-9:10 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,
1KI-9:11 ([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.
1KI-9:12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which
Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
1KI-9:13 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.
1KI-9:14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
1KI-9:15 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.
1KI-9:16 [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.
1KI-9:17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,
1KI-9:18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
1KI-9:19 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.
1KI-9:20 [And] all the people [that were] left of the Amorites,
Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which [were] not
of the children of Israel,
1KI-9:21 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.
1KI-9:22 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.
1KI-9:23 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.
1KI-9:24 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.
1KI-9:25 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.
1KI-9:26 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.
1KI-9:27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that
had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
1KI-9:28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold,
four hundred and twenty talents, and brought [it] to king
Solomon.
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