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.