I Kings Chapter 9

I Kings Chapter 9
1 When Solomon had finished the
building of the house of the Lord, and the
king's palace, and all that Solomon
desired and minded to do,
2 Then the Lord appeared unto Solomon
the second time, as he 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 forever, and
mine eyes, and mine heart shall be there
perpetually.
4 And if thou wilt walk before me (as
David thy father walked in pureness of
heart and in righteousness) to do
according to all that I have commanded
thee, and keep my statutes, and my
judgments,
5 Then will I stablish the throne of thy
kingdom upon Israel forever, as I
promised to David thy father, saying,
Thou shalt not want a man upon the
throne of Israel.
6 But if ye and your children turn away
from me, 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 from the land,
which I have given them, and the house
which I have hallowed for my name,
will I cast out of my sight, and Israel
shall be a proverb, and a common talk
among all people.
8 Even this high house shall be so: every
one that passeth by it, shall be astonied,
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, which
brought their fathers out of the land of
Egypt, and have taken hold upon other
gods, and have worshiped them, and
served them, therefore hath the Lord
brought upon them all this evil.
10 And at the end of twenty years, when
Solomon had builded the two houses, the
house of the Lord, and the king's palace,
11 ( For the which Hiram the king of
Tyrus had brought to Solomon timber of
cedar, and fir trees, and gold, and
whatsoever he desired) then king
Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in
the land of Galil.
12 And Hiram came out from Tyrus to
see the cities which Solomon had given
him, and they pleased him not.
13 Therefore 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 had sent the king six
score talents of gold.
15 And this is the cause of the tribute
why king Solomon raised tribute, to wit,
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 Pharaoh king of Egypt had come up,
and taken Gezer, and burned it with fire,
and slew the Canaanites, that dwelt in
the city, and gave it for a present unto his
daughter Solomon's wife.
17 (Therefore Solomon built Gezer and
Beth-horon the nether,
18 And Baalath and Tamor in the
wilderness of the land,
19 And all the cities of store, that
Solomon had, even cities for chariots,
and cities for horsemen, and all that
Solomon desired and would build in
Jerusalem, and in Lebanon and in all the
land of his dominion)
20 All the people that were left of the
Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites,
and Jebusites, which were not of the
children of Israel:
21 To wit, their children that were left
after them in the land, whom the children
of Israel were not able to destroy, those
did Solomon make tributaries 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 princes of the
officers, that were over Solomon's
work: even five hundred and fifty, and
they ruled the people that wrought in the
work.
24 And Pharaoh's daughter came up from
the city of David unto the house which
Solomon had built for her: then did he
build Millo. 25 And thrice a year did
Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace
offerings upon the altar which he built
unto the Lord: and he burned incense
upon the altar that was before the Lord,
when he had finished the house. 26 Also
king Solomon made a navy of ships in
Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, and
the brink of the Red Sea, in the land of
Edom.
27 And Hiram sent with the navy his
servants, that were mariners, and had
knowledge of the sea, with the servants
of Solomon.
28 And they came to Ophir and set from
thence four hundred and twenty talents of
gold, and brought it to king Solomon.