1 Kings 9
9
The Lord’s Response
1When Solomon finished building the temple of the Lord, # 2Ch 7:11-22 the royal palace, and all that Solomon desired to do, # 1Kg 7:1-2; 2Ch 7:11 2the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time just as He had appeared to him at Gibeon. # 1Kg 3:5; 11:9 3The Lord said to him:
I have heard your prayer and petition you have made before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built, to put My name there forever; # 1Kg 8:29 My eyes and My heart will be there at all times. # 2Ch 6:40
4As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and in what is right, doing everything I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances, # 1Kg 3:6,14; 11:4,6; 1Ch 28:9 5I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David: You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel. # 2Sm 7:12,15-16; 1Kg 2:4
6If you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep My commands — My statutes that I have set before you — and if you go and serve other gods and worship them, # Dt 28:15; 1Kg 11:10; 1Ch 28:9 7I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, # Lv 26:33; Dt 28:63 and I will reject # Lit send from My presence the temple I have sanctified for My name. # Dt 12:5; 1Kg 8:20 Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples. # Dt 28:37 8Though this temple is now exalted, # Some ancient versions read temple will become a ruin everyone who passes by will be appalled and will mock. # Lit hiss They will say: Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple? # Lv 26:32; Dt 29:24; Mt 23:38 9Then they will say: Because they abandoned the Lord their God who brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt. They clung to other gods and worshiped and served them. Because of this, the Lord brought all this ruin on them. # Dt 29:25; 31:29
King Hiram’s 20 Towns
10At the end of 20 years during which Solomon had built the two houses, the Lord’s temple and the royal palace # 1Kg 6:38; 7:1; 2Ch 8:1 — 11Hiram king of Tyre # 1Kg 5:1 having supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold # Dt 17:17 for his every wish # 1Kg 5:10 — King Solomon gave Hiram 20 towns in the land of Galilee. 12So Hiram went out from Tyre to look over the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them. 13So he said, “What are these towns you’ve given me, my brother? ” So he called them the Land of Cabul, # = Like Nothing as they are still called today. # 2Ch 8:2 14Now Hiram had sent the king 9,000 pounds # Lit 120 talents of gold. # Dt 17:17
Solomon’s Forced Labor
15This is the account of the forced labor # 1Kg 5:13-16 that King Solomon had imposed to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the supporting terraces, # 2Sm 5:9 the wall of Jerusalem, # 1Kg 3:1 and Hazor, # Jos 11:1 Megiddo, # Jos 17:11 and Gezer. # Jdg 1:29 16Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He then burned it down, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife. # 1Kg 3:1; 7:8 17Then Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon, # Jos 16:3; 2Ch 8:5 18Baalath, # Jos 19:44 Tamar # Alt Hb traditions, LXX, Syr, Tg, Vg read Tadmor; 2Ch 8:4 # Tamar was a city in southern Judah; Ezk 47:19; 48:28. in the Wilderness of Judah, 19all the storage cities that belonged to Solomon, the chariot cities, # 1Kg 10:26 the cavalry cities, # 1Kg 4:26 and whatever Solomon desired to build # 1Kg 9:1 in Jerusalem, Lebanon, or anywhere else in the land of his dominion.
20As for all the peoples who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not Israelites — 21their descendants who remained in the land after them, those whom the Israelites were unable to completely destroy # Jdg 1:21-36; 3:1; 2Ch 8:7-8 — Solomon imposed forced labor on them; it is this way until today. # Jdg 1:28,35; Ezr 2:55,58 22But Solomon did not consign the Israelites to slavery; # Lv 25:39 they were soldiers, his servants, his commanders, his captains, and commanders of his chariots and his cavalry. 23These were the deputies # 1Kg 5:16 who were over Solomon’s work: 550 who ruled over the people doing the work. # 2Ch 8:9-10
Solomon’s Other Activities
24Pharaoh’s daughter moved from the city of David # 2Sm 5:7 to the house that Solomon had built for her; # 1Kg 7:8; 2Ch 8:11 he then built the terraces. # 1Kg 9:15; 11:27; 2Ch 32:5
25Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord, and he burned incense with them in the Lord’s presence. # Dt 16:16 So he completed the temple. # 2Ch 8:16
26King Solomon put together a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, # Nm 33:48; 1Kg 22:48 which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Edom. 27With the fleet, Hiram sent his servants, experienced seamen, along with Solomon’s servants. 28They went to Ophir # 1Kg 10:11; 22:48-49 and acquired gold there — 16 tons # Lit 420 talents — and delivered it to Solomon. # 1Kg 9:11,14
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1 Kings 9
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God Appears to Solomon Again
(2 Chr 7.11–22)
1After King Solomon had finished building the Temple and the palace and everything else he wanted to build, 2#1 Kgs 3.5; 2 Chr 1.7the LORD appeared to him again, as he had in Gibeon. 3The LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer. I consecrate this Temple which you have built as the place where I shall be worshipped for ever. I will watch over it and protect it for all time. 4If you will serve me in honesty and integrity, as your father David did, and if you obey my laws and do everything I have commanded you, 5#1 Kgs 2.4I will keep the promise I made to your father David when I told him that Israel would always be ruled by his descendants. 6But if you or your descendants stop following me, if you disobey the laws and commands I have given you, and worship other gods, 7then I will remove my people Israel from the land that I have given them. I will also abandon this Temple which I have consecrated as the place where I am to be worshipped. People everywhere will ridicule Israel and treat her with contempt. 8#2 Kgs 25.9; 2 Chr 36.19This Temple will become a pile of ruins,#9.8 Some ancient translations a pile of ruins; Hebrew high. and everyone who passes by will be shocked and amazed. ‘Why did the LORD do this to this land and this Temple?’ they will ask. 9People will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the LORD their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt. They gave their allegiance to other gods and worshipped them. That is why the LORD has brought this disaster on them.’ ”
Solomon's Agreement with Hiram
(2 Chr 8.1–2)
10It took Solomon twenty years to build the Temple and his palace. 11King Hiram of Tyre had provided him with all the cedar and pine and with all the gold he wanted for this work. After it was finished, King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the region of Galilee. 12Hiram went to see them, and he did not like them. 13So he said to Solomon, “So these, my brother, are the towns you have given me!” For this reason the area is still called Cabul.#9.13 Cabul: This name sounds like “ke-bal”, the Hebrew for “worthless”. 14Hiram had sent Solomon more than four tonnes of gold.
Further Achievements of Solomon
(2 Chr 8.3–18)
15King Solomon used forced labour to build the Temple and the palace, to fill in land on the east side of the city, and to build the city wall. He also used it to rebuild the cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. 16(The king of Egypt had attacked Gezer and captured it, killing its inhabitants and setting fire to the city. Then he gave it as a wedding present to his daughter when she married Solomon, 17and Solomon rebuilt it.) Using his forced labour, Solomon also rebuilt Lower Beth Horon, 18Baalath, Tamar in the Judean wilderness, 19the cities where his supplies were kept, the cities for his horses and chariots, and everything else he wanted to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and elsewhere in his kingdom. 20-21For his forced labour Solomon used the descendants of the people of Canaan whom the Israelites had not killed when they took possession of their land. These included Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, whose descendants continue to be slaves down to the present time. 22Solomon did not make slaves of Israelites; they served as his soldiers, officers, commanders, chariot captains, and horsemen.
23There were 550 officials in charge of the forced labour working on Solomon's various building projects.
24Solomon filled in the land on the east side of the city, after his wife, the daughter of the king of Egypt, had moved from David's City to the palace Solomon built for her.
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Ex 23.17; 34.23; Deut 16.16 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built to the LORD. He also burnt incense#9.25 Hebrew has two additional words, the meaning of which is unclear. to the LORD. And so he finished building the Temple.
26King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Eziongeber, which is near Elath, on the shore of the Gulf of Aqaba, in the land of Edom. 27King Hiram sent some experienced seamen from his fleet to serve with Solomon's men. 28They sailed to the land of Ophir, and brought back to Solomon more than fourteen tonnes of gold.
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