The First Book of Kings (WEB)
9:1 It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king's
house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do, 9:2that Yahweh appeared to Solomon
the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. 9:3Yahweh 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.
9:4As 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; 9:5then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, according as I
promised to David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel. 9:6But
if you shall turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments
and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
9:7then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have
made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all peoples. 9:8Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be
astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this
house? 9:9and they shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought forth their
fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served
them: therefore has Yahweh brought all this evil on them. 9:10It happened at the end of twenty
years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house
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. 9:12Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they
didn't please him. 9:13He said, What cities are these which you have given me, my brother? He
called them the land of Cabul to this day. 9:14Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of
gold. 9:15This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh,
and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
9:16Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the
Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a portion to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
9:17Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the lower, 9:18and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in
the land, 9:19and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and 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. 9:20As 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; 9:21their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were
not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day. 9:22But of
the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his
servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. 9:23These
were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the
people who labored in the work. 9:24But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her
house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo. 9:25Three times a year did
Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace-offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning
incense therewith, on the altar that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house. 9:26King
Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea,
in the land of Edom. 9:27Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea,
with the servants of Solomon. 9:28They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred
and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
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