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I Kings
Chapter 9
1
And it came to pass,
when
Solomon had finished the building
of
the house of Jehovah/God,
and
the king's house,
and
all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do, 2
that
Jehovah/God appeared to Solomon the second time,
as
He had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
3
And Jehovah/God said unto him,
I
have heard your prayer and your supplication,
that
you have made before Me.
I
have hallowed this house,
which
you have built,
to
put My name there forever;
and
My eyes and My heart/'right lobe'
shall
be there perpetually.
4
And if you will Walk before me,
as
David your father walked,
in
integrity of heart/'right lobe',
and
in uprightness,
to
do according to all that I have commanded you,
and
will keep My statutes and My judgments . . . 5
then
I will establish the throne of your kingdom upon Israel forever,
as
I promised to David your father, saying,
There
shall not fail you a man upon the throne of Israel.
6
But if you shall at all turn from following Me,
you
or your children,
and
will not keep My commandments
and
My statutes which I have set before you,
but
go and serve other 'elohiym/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 who passes by it shall be astonished,
and
shall hiss; and they shall say,
Why
has Jehovah/God done thus unto this land,
and
to this house?
9
And they shall answer,
Because
they forsook Jehovah/God their 'Elohiym/Godhead,
Who
brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt,
and
have taken hold upon other 'elohiym/gods,
and
have worshipped them, and served them
therefore
has Jehovah/God 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 Jehovah/God, 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 you have 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 Jehovah/God,
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 bond-service
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,
who
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 Jehovah/God,
and
he burnt incense upon the altar that was before Jehovah/God.
So
he finished the house.
26
And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber,
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.
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