King James Version1 Kings9

1 Kings

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.