1 Kings 9 - New American Standard Bible (NASB)

God’s Promise and Warning

9 (A)Now it came about when Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and (B)the king’s house, and (C)all [a]that Solomon desired to do, 2 that (D)the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon. 3 And the Lord said to him, “(E)I have heard your prayer and your plea which you have offered before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built, (F)by putting My name there forever, and (G)My eyes and My heart will be there [b]always. 4 As for you, (H)if you walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and honesty, acting in accordance with everything that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My ordinances, 5 then (I)I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, just as I [c]promised to your father David, saying, ‘[d]You shall not be deprived of a man on the throne of Israel.’

6 “(J)But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have placed before you, but you go and serve other gods and worship them, 7 (K)then I will cut Israel off from the land which I have given them, and (L)the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will [e]expel from My sight. So (M)Israel will become a saying and an object of derision among all peoples. 8 And this house will become (N)a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by it will be appalled and [f]hiss and say, ‘(O)Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and this house?’ 9 And they will say, ‘(P)Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and they [g]adopted other gods and worshiped and served them, for that reason the Lord has brought all this adversity on them.’”

Cities Given to Hiram

10 (Q)Now it came about (R)at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house 11 (Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and juniper timber and gold, [h]satisfying all his desire), that King Solomon then gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 12 So Hiram left Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they [i]did not please him. 13 And he said, “What are these cities which you have given me, my brother?” So [j]they have been called the land of [k](S)Cabul to this day. 14 (T)And Hiram sent to the king [l]120 talents of gold.

15 Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon (U)conscripted to build the house of the Lord, his own house, the [m](V)Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, (W)Hazor, (X)Megiddo, and (Y)Gezer. 16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and overthrown Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the (Z)Canaanites who lived in the city; and he had (AA)given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife. 17 So Solomon rebuilt Gezer and the lower (AB)Beth-horon, 18 and (AC)Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah, 19 and all the storage cities which Solomon had, that is, (AD)the cities for [n]his chariots and the cities for [o](AE)his horsemen, and [p](AF)everything that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land [q]under his rule. 20 As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the sons of Israel, 21 (AG)their descendants who were left after them in the land, (AH)whom the sons of Israel were unable to completely eliminate, (AI)from them Solomon conscripted (AJ)forced laborers, as they are to this day. 22 But Solomon (AK)did not make slaves of the sons of Israel; for they were men of war, his servants, his commanders, his charioteers, his chariot commanders, and his horsemen.

23 These were the [r](AL)chief officers who were in charge of Solomon’s work, 550, (AM)who ruled over the people doing the work.

24 As soon as (AN)Pharaoh’s daughter came up from the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her, (AO)he then built the Millo.

25 Now (AP)three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he had built for the Lord, burning incense with them on the altar which was before the Lord. So he finished the house.

26 King Solomon also built a (AQ)fleet of ships in (AR)Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the [s]Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 27 (AS)And Hiram sent his servants with the fleet, sailors who knew the sea, along with the servants of Solomon. 28 And they went to (AT)Ophir and received [t]420 talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon.

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:1 Lit Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do
  2. 1 Kings 9:3 Lit all the days
  3. 1 Kings 9:5 Lit spoke
  4. 1 Kings 9:5 Lit There shall not be cut off to you a man
  5. 1 Kings 9:7 Lit send
  6. 1 Kings 9:8 Or whistle
  7. 1 Kings 9:9 Lit laid hold of
  8. 1 Kings 9:11 Lit to all
  9. 1 Kings 9:12 Lit were not right in his sight
  10. 1 Kings 9:13 Lit he called them
  11. 1 Kings 9:13 I.e., like nothing
  12. 1 Kings 9:14 About 4.5 tons or 4 metric tons
  13. 1 Kings 9:15 I.e., terraced structure
  14. 1 Kings 9:19 Lit the
  15. 1 Kings 9:19 Lit the
  16. 1 Kings 9:19 Lit the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem
  17. 1 Kings 9:19 Lit of
  18. 1 Kings 9:23 Or officers of the deputies
  19. 1 Kings 9:26 Lit Sea of Reeds
  20. 1 Kings 9:28 About 16 tons or 14 metric tons

Cross references

  1. 1 Kings 9:1 : 2 Chr 7:11
  2. 1 Kings 9:1 : 1 Kin 7:1, 2
  3. 1 Kings 9:1 : 2 Chr 8:6
  4. 1 Kings 9:2 : 1 Kin 3:5; 11:9; 2 Chr 1:7
  5. 1 Kings 9:3 : 2 Kin 20:5; Ps 10:17; 34:17
  6. 1 Kings 9:3 : 1 Kin 8:29
  7. 1 Kings 9:3 : Deut 11:12; 2 Chr 6:40
  8. 1 Kings 9:4 : 1 Kin 3:6, 14; 11:4, 6, 8; 2 Kin 20:3; Ps 128:1
  9. 1 Kings 9:5 : 2 Sam 7:12, 16; 1 Kin 2:4; 6:12; 1 Chr 22:10
  10. 1 Kings 9:6 : 2 Sam 7:14-16; 1 Chr 28:9; Ps 89:30ff
  11. 1 Kings 9:7 : Lev 18:24-29; Deut 4:26; 2 Kin 17:23
  12. 1 Kings 9:7 : Jer 7:4-14
  13. 1 Kings 9:7 : Deut 28:37; Ps 44:14; Jer 24:9
  14. 1 Kings 9:8 : 2 Kin 25:9; 2 Chr 36:19
  15. 1 Kings 9:8 : Deut 29:24-26; 2 Chr 7:21; Jer 22:8, 9, 28
  16. 1 Kings 9:9 : Deut 29:25-28; Jer 2:10-13
  17. 1 Kings 9:10 : 2 Chr 8:1
  18. 1 Kings 9:10 : 1 Kin 6:37, 38; 7:1; 9:1
  19. 1 Kings 9:13 : Josh 19:27
  20. 1 Kings 9:14 : 1 Kin 9:11
  21. 1 Kings 9:15 : 1 Kin 5:13
  22. 1 Kings 9:15 : 2 Sam 5:9; 1 Kin 9:24
  23. 1 Kings 9:15 : Josh 11:1; 19:36
  24. 1 Kings 9:15 : Josh 17:11
  25. 1 Kings 9:15 : Judg 1:29
  26. 1 Kings 9:16 : Josh 16:10
  27. 1 Kings 9:16 : 1 Kin 3:1; 7:8
  28. 1 Kings 9:17 : Josh 10:10; 16:3; 21:22; 2 Chr 8:5
  29. 1 Kings 9:18 : Josh 19:44
  30. 1 Kings 9:19 : 1 Kin 10:26; 2 Chr 1:14
  31. 1 Kings 9:19 : 1 Kin 4:26
  32. 1 Kings 9:19 : 1 Kin 9:1
  33. 1 Kings 9:21 : Judg 1:21-29; 3:1
  34. 1 Kings 9:21 : Josh 15:63; 17:12, 13
  35. 1 Kings 9:21 : Judg 1:28, 35
  36. 1 Kings 9:21 : Gen 9:25, 26; Ezra 2:55, 58
  37. 1 Kings 9:22 : Lev 25:39
  38. 1 Kings 9:23 : 2 Chr 8:10
  39. 1 Kings 9:23 : 1 Kin 5:16
  40. 1 Kings 9:24 : 1 Kin 3:1; 7:8
  41. 1 Kings 9:24 : 2 Sam 5:9; 1 Kin 9:15; 11:27; 2 Chr 32:5
  42. 1 Kings 9:25 : Ex 23:14-17; Deut 16:16
  43. 1 Kings 9:26 : 1 Kin 22:48
  44. 1 Kings 9:26 : Num 33:35; Deut 2:8; 1 Kin 22:48
  45. 1 Kings 9:27 : 1 Kin 5:6, 9; 10:11
  46. 1 Kings 9:28 : 1 Chr 29:4; 2 Chr 8:18

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