1 Kings 9

¹And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the house of the king, and all of Solomon's desire that he was pleased to do,

²that the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

³And the LORD said to him: ‘I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before me; I have consecrated this house that you have built, to put my name there forever, and my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.’

⁴And as for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and you keep my statutes and my judgments,

⁵then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, There shall not be cut off from you a man upon the throne of Israel.

⁶If you and your sons utterly turn away from following me and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and bow down to them,

⁷then I will cut off Israel from the face of the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all the peoples.

⁸And this house, though it is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be appalled and will hiss, and they will say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?

⁹And they will say: ‘Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them— therefore the Lord has brought upon them all this disaster.’

¹⁰And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the house of the king,

¹¹Hiram king of Tyre having supplied Solomon with cedar timber and cypress timber and gold, according to all his desire, then King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

¹²And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, but they were not pleasing in his eyes.

¹³And he said, What are these cities that you have given to me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul to this day.

¹⁴And Hiram sent to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.

¹⁵And this is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon raised up to build the house of the LORD and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer.

¹⁶Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and he killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and he gave it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.

¹⁷And Solomon built Gezer and Lower Beth-horon,

¹⁸and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,

¹⁹and all the store-cities that belonged to Solomon, and the chariot cities and the cavalry cities, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

²⁰All 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,

²¹their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able to devote to destruction, these Solomon raised up as a slave levy, to this day.

²²But of the Israelites Solomon did not make anyone a slave; for they were the men of war, his servants, his officials, his officers, and the commanders of his chariotry and his cavalry.

²³These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people who did the work.

²⁴As soon as Pharaoh's daughter went up from the City of David to her house that he had built for her, then he built the Millo.

²⁵Three times a year Solomon offered up burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he built to the LORD, and he burned incense with it upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he completed the house.

²⁶And King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

²⁷And Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, men of ships who knew the sea, together with the servants of Solomon.

²⁸And they went to Ophir and took from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to King Solomon.