1 Kings 9New King James Version (NKJV)
God’s Second Appearance to Solomon
9 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished
building the house of the Lord and the king’s house, and all
Solomon’s desire which he wanted to do, 2 that
the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as He had appeared to
him at Gibeon. 3 And the Lord said to
him: “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before
Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built to put My name there
forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually. 4 Now
if you walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in
uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if
you keep My statutes and My judgments, 5 then I
will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised
David your father, saying, ‘You shall not fail to have a man on the throne of
Israel.’ 6 But if you or your sons at
all turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My
statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship
them, 7 then I will cut off Israel from the land
which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated for My name I
will cast out of My sight. Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all
peoples. 8 And as for this
house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be
astonished and will hiss, and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to
this land and to this house?’ 9 Then they will
answer, ‘Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their
fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, and worshiped
them and served them; therefore the Lord has brought all this
calamity on them.’”
Solomon and Hiram Exchange Gifts
10 Now it happened at the end of
twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of
the Lord and the king’s house 11 (Hiram
the king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress and gold, as much
as he desired), that King Solomon then gave Hiram twenty
cities in the land of Galilee. 12 Then Hiram went
from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, but they did not
please him. 13 So he said, “What kind of cities are these
which you have given me, my brother?” And he called them the land of Cabul,[a] as they are to this
day. 14 Then Hiram sent the king one hundred and
twenty talents of gold.
Solomon’s Additional Achievements
15 And this is the
reason for the labor force which King Solomon raised: to build the house of
the Lord, his own house, the Millo,[b] the wall of Jerusalem,
Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. 16 (Pharaoh king of
Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer and burned it with fire, had killed the
Canaanites who dwelt in the city, and had given it as a dowry
to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.) 17 And Solomon
built Gezer, Lower Beth Horon, 18 Baalath, and
Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land of Judah, 19 all
the storage cities that Solomon had, cities for his chariots and cities for his
cavalry, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in
all the land of his dominion.
20 All the people who were left
of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not
of the children of Israel— 21 that is, their
descendants who were left in the land after them, whom the children of Israel
had not been able to destroy completely—from these Solomon raised forced labor,
as it is to this day. 22 But of the children of
Israel Solomon made no forced laborers, because they were men
of war and his servants: his officers, his captains, commanders of his
chariots, and his cavalry.
23 Others were chiefs
of the officials who were over Solomon’s work: five hundred
and fifty, who ruled over the people who did the work.
24 But Pharaoh’s daughter came up
from the City of David to her house which Solomon[c] had built for her.
Then he built the Millo.
25 Now three times a year Solomon
offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he had built for
the Lord, and he burned incense with them on the altar that was before
the Lord. So he finished the temple.
26 King Solomon also built a fleet of
ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath[d]on the shore of the Red Sea,
in the land of Edom. 27 Then Hiram sent his
servants with the fleet, seamen who knew the sea, to work with the servants of
Solomon. 28 And they went to Ophir, and acquired
four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and brought it to
King Solomon.
2 Chronicles 8New King James Version (NKJV)
Solomon’s Additional Achievements
8 It came to pass at the end of twenty years,
when Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house, 2 that
the cities which Hiram[a] had given to Solomon,
Solomon built them; and he settled the children of Israel there. 3 And
Solomon went to Hamath Zobah and seized it. 4 He
also built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities which he built
in Hamath. 5 He built Upper Beth Horon and Lower
Beth Horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and
bars, 6 also Baalath and all the storage cities
that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities and the cities of the cavalry, and
all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land
of his dominion.
7 All the people who were left
of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not
of Israel— 8 that is, their descendants who were
left in the land after them, whom the children of Israel did not destroy—from
these Solomon raised forced labor, as it is to this day. 9 But
Solomon did not make the children of Israel servants for his work. Some were men
of war, captains of his officers, captains of his chariots, and his
cavalry. 10 And others were chiefs
of the officials of King Solomon: two hundred and fifty, who ruled over the
people.
11 Now Solomon brought the daughter
of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the house he had built for her, for he
said, “My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel,
because the places to which the ark of the Lord has
come are holy.”
12 Then Solomon offered burnt
offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had
built before the vestibule, 13 according to the
daily rate, offering according to the commandment of Moses, for the Sabbaths,
the New Moons, and the three appointed yearly feasts—the Feast of Unleavened
Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. 14 And,
according to the order of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the
priests for their service, the Levites for their duties (to praise and serve
before the priests) as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers by
their divisions at each gate; for so David the man of God had commanded. 15 They
did not depart from the command of the king to the priests and Levites
concerning any matter or concerning the treasuries.
16 Now all the work of Solomon was
well-ordered from[b] the day of the
foundation of the house of the Lord until it was finished. So the
house of the Lord was completed.
17 Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber
and Elath[c] on the seacoast, in
the land of Edom. 18 And Hiram sent him ships by
the hand of his servants, and servants who knew the sea. They went with the
servants of Solomon to Ophir, and acquired four hundred and fifty talents of
gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon.
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