| Chapter
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. |
