1 Kings 9

And it happened, when Solomon finished building the house of God and the house of the king and all of the desire of Solomon that he delighted to do,

that God appeared to Solomon a second time, just as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. \*

And God said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you supplicated to my face. I have consecrated this house that you have built, to put my name there to forever. And my eyes and my heart will be there all of the days. \*

And you, if you walk to my face just as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, {if} you keep my statutes and my judgments,

then I will raise up the throne of your kingdom over Israel to forever, just as I spoke to David your father, saying, ‘A man to you will not be cut off from upon the throne of Israel.’ \*

If turning, you turn, you or your sons, from after me, and you do not keep my commandments, my statutes that I have set to your faces, and you go and serve other gods and prostrate yourselves to them,

then I will cut off Israel from upon the face of the ground that I have given to them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name, I will send away from before my face, and Israel will be for a proverb and for a taunt among all of the peoples. \*

And this house {that} is exalted, everyone passing by it will be appalled and will hiss. And they will say, ‘Why did God do thus to this land and to this house?’

And they will say, ‘Because they forsook God their God, who brought their fathers out from the land of Egypt, and they held onto other gods and prostrated themselves to them and served them. Therefore God brought upon them all of this harm.’” \*

And it happened at the end of 20 years that Solomon had built the two houses, the house of God and the house of the king.

Hiram, the king of Tyre, had supplied Solomon with trees of cedar and with trees of cypress and with gold, according to all of his delight. Then King Solomon gave to Hiram 20 cities in the land of Galilee. \*

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

And 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.

Now Hiram had sent to the king 120 kikkars of gold. \*

Now this is the matter of the forced labor that King Solomon brought up to build the house of God and his house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer.

Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had gone up and captured Gezer, and he had burned it with fire, and he had killed the Canaanite, the dweller of the city. And he had given it {as} a dowry to his daughter, the wife of Solomon. \*

And Solomon built Gezer and Lower Beth Horon

and Baalath and Tadmor in the wilderness in the land

and all of the cities of the storehouses that were to Solomon and the cities of the chariotry and the cities of the horsemen and the desire of Solomon, whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all of the land of his dominion. \*

All of the people being left from the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, they who {were} not from the sons of Israel,

their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel were not able to devote them, Solomon brought them up for the forced labor of working, to this day. \*

But from the sons of Israel Solomon did not make a servant, for they {were} men of war and his servants and his commanders and his captains and the commanders of his chariotry and his horsemen. \*

These {were} the commanders of the deputies who {were} over the work for Solomon, 550, ruling over the people doing the work. \*

Once the daughter of Pharoah had gone up from the City of David to her house that he had built for her, then he built the Millo. \*

And three times in the year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he had built for God, and he burned incense with it, which {was} to the face of God. And he completed the house. \*

And King Solomon made a fleet in Ezion Geber, which {is} near Elath on the lip of the Sea of Reeds in the land of Edom.

And Hiram sent his servants in the fleet, men of ships, knowers of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

And they came to Ophir, and they took gold from there, 420 kikkars. And they brought it to King Solomon. \*