9:1 And it came to pass when Solomon had
finished building the house of Yehovah, and the king's house, and all the
work of Solomon, whatever he wished to perform,
9:2 that Yehovah appeared to Solomon a second time, as he appeared in
Gabaon.
9:3 And Yehovah said to him, I have heard the voice of thy prayer, and thy
supplication which thou madest before me: I have done for thee according to
all thy prayer: I have hallowed this house which thou hast built to put my
name there for ever, and mine eyes and my heart shall be there always.
9:4 And if thou wilt walk before me as David thy father walked, in holiness
of heart and uprightness, and so as to do according to all that I commanded
him, and shalt keep my ordinances and my commandments:
9:5 then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom in Israel for ever, as I
spoke to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to rule
in Israel.
9:6 But if ye or your children do in any wise revolt from me, and do not
keep my commandments and my ordinances, which Moses set before you, and ye
go and serve other gods, and worship them:
9:7 then will I cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and
this house which I have consecrated to my name I will cast out of my sight;
and Israel shall be a desolation and a by-word to all nations.
9:8 And this house, which is high, shall be [so that] every one that passes
by it shall be amazed, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Wherefore has the
Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?
9:9 And [men] shall say, Because they forsook Yehovah their Elohim, who
brought out their fathers from Egypt, out of the house of bondage, and they
attached themselves to strange gods, and worshipped them, and served them:
therefore Yehovah has brought this evil upon them.
9:10 [During] twenty years in which Solomon was building the two houses, the
house of Yehovah, and the house of the king,
9:11 Chiram king of Tyre helped Solomon with cedar wood, and fir wood, and
with gold, and all that he wished for: then the king gave Chiram twenty
cities in the land of Galilee.
9:12 So Chiram departed from Tyre, and went into Galilee to see the cities
which Solomon gave to him; and they pleased him not. And he said,
9:13 What [are] these cities which thou hast given me, brother? And he
called them Boundary until this day.
9:14 And Chiram brought to Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold,
9:15 This was the arrangement of the provision which king Solomon fetched to
build the house of Yehovah, and the house of the king, and the wall of
Jerusalem, and the citadel; to fortify the city of David, and Assur, and
Magdal, and Gazer, and Baethoron the upper, and Jethermath, and all the
cities of the chariots, and all the cities of the horsemen, and the
fortification of Solomon which he purposed to build in Jerusalem and in all
the land,
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9:20 so that none of the people should rule over him that was left of the
Chettite and the Amorite, and the Pherezite, and the Canaanite, and the
Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Gergesite, who were not of the children of
Israel, their descendants who had been left with him in the land, whom the
children of Israel could not utterly destroy; and Solomon made them
tributaries until this day.
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9:22 But of the children of Israel Solomon made nothing; for they were the
warriors, and his servants and rulers, and captains of the third order, and
the captains of his chariots, and his horsemen.
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9:24 Then Solomon brought up the daughter ofPharaoh out of the city of David
into his house which he built for himself in those days,
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9:26 even that for which king Solomon built a ship in Gasion Gaber near
Aelath on the shore of the extremity of the sea in the land of Edom.
9:27 And Chiram sent in the ship together with the servants of Solomon
servants of his own, mariners to row, men acquainted with the sea.
9:28 And they came to Sophira, and took thence a hundred and twenty talents
of gold, and brought them to king Solomon. |
9:1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had
finished the building of the house of Yehovah, and the king's house, and
all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
9:2 That Yehovah appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared
unto him at Gibeon.
9:3 And Yehovah 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 Yehovah done thus
unto this land, and to this house?
9:9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook Yehovah their Elohim, 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
Yehovah 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 Yehovah, 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 Yehovah, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of
Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
9:16 ForPharaohh 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 ButPharaohh'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 Yehovah, and he burnt incense
upon the altar that was before Yehovah. 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. |