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Chapter 9
- 9:1
- 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,
- 9:2
- That the LORD appeared to Solomon
the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
- 9:3
- 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.
- 9:4
- 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:
- 9:5
- 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.
- 9:6
- 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:
- 9:7
- 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:
- 9:8
- 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?
- 9:9
- 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.
- 9:10
- 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,
- 9:11
- (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.
- 9:12
- And Hiram came out from Tyre to
see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
- 9:13
- 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.
- 9:14
- And Hiram sent to the king
sixscore talents of gold.
- 9:15
- 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.
- 9:16
- 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.
- 9:17
- And Solomon built Gezer, and
Bethhoron the nether,
- 9:18
- And Baalath, and Tadmor in the
wilderness, in the land,
- 9:19
- 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.
- 9:20
- And all the people that were left
of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which
were not of the children of Israel,
- 9:21
- 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.
- 9:22
- 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.
- 9:23
- 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.
- 9:24
- 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.
- 9:25
- 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.
- 9:26
- 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.
- 9:27
- And Hiram sent in the navy his
servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of
Solomon.
- 9:28
- 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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