“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.” (1 Kings 9:1-28 AV)
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