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