1Kings 9

9When Solomon had finished building the temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all he had desired to do,H8010H3615H1129H1004H3068H4428H1004H8010H2837H2654H62132the LORD appeared to him a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.H3068H7200H8010H8145H7200H13913The LORD said to him: "I have heard the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.H3068H559H8085H8605H8467H2603H6440H6942H1004H1129H7760H8034H5704H5769H5869H3820H31174"As for you, if you walk before me in integrity of heart and uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws,H3212H6440H1732H1H1980H8537H3824H3476H6213H6680H8104H2706H49415I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father when I said, 'You shall never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.'H6965H3678H4467H3478H5769H1696H1732H1H559H3772H376H3678H34786"But if you or your sons turn away from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them,H7725H7725H310H1121H8104H4687H2708H5414H6440H1980H5647H312H430H78127then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. Israel will then become a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.H3772H3478H6440H127H5414H1004H6942H8034H7971H6440H3478H4912H8148H59718And though this temple is now imposing, all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff and say, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?'H1004H5945H5674H8074H8319H559H3068H6213H776H10049People will answer, 'Because they have forsaken the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them--that is why the LORD brought all this disaster on them.'"H559H5800H3068H430H3318H1H776H4714H2388H312H430H7812H5647H3068H935H745110At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings--the temple of the LORD and the royal palace--H7097H6242H8141H8010H1129H8147H1004H1004H3068H4428H100411King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and pine and gold he wanted.H2438H4428H6865H5375H8010H730H6086H1265H6086H2091H2656H227H4428H8010H5414H2438H6242H5892H776H155112But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.H2438H3318H6865H7200H5892H8010H5414H3474H586913"What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?" he asked. And he called them the Land of Cabul, a name they have to this day.H559H5892H5414H251H7121H776H3521H311714Now Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents of gold.H2438H7971H4428H3967H6242H3603H209115Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build the LORD'S temple, his own palace, the supporting terraces, the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer.H1697H4522H4428H8010H5927H1129H1004H3068H1004H4407H2346H3389H2674H4023H150716(Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire. He killed its Canaanite inhabitants and then gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon's wife.H6547H4428H4714H5927H3920H1507H8313H784H2026H3669H3427H5892H5414H7964H1323H8010H80217And Solomon rebuilt Gezer.) He built up Lower Beth Horon,H8010H1129H1507H1032H848118Baalath, and Tadmor in the desert, within his land,H1191H8412H4057H77619as well as all his store cities and the towns for his chariots and for his horses--whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.H5892H4543H8010H5892H7393H5892H6571H2837H8010H2836H1129H3389H3844H776H447520All the people left from the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these peoples were not Israelites),H5971H3498H567H2850H6522H2340H2983H1121H347821that is, their descendants remaining in the land, whom the Israelites could not exterminate--these Solomon conscripted for his slave labor force, as it is to this day.H1121H3498H310H776H1121H3478H3201H2763H8010H5927H4522H5647H311722But Solomon did not make slaves of any of the Israelites; they were his fighting men, his government officials, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and charioteers.H1121H3478H8010H5414H5650H582H4421H5650H8269H7991H8269H7393H657123They were also the chief officials in charge of Solomon's projects--550 officials supervising the men who did the work.H8269H5324H8010H4399H2568H3967H2572H7287H5971H6213H439924After Pharaoh's daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace Solomon had built for her, he constructed the supporting terraces.H6547H1323H5927H5892H1732H1004H1129H1129H440725Three times a year Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense before the LORD along with them, and so fulfilled the temple obligations.H7969H6471H8141H8010H5927H5930H8002H4196H1129H3068H6999H4196H6440H3068H7999H100426King Solomon also built ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.H4428H8010H6213H590H6100H359H8193H5488H3220H776H12327And Hiram sent his men--sailors who knew the sea--to serve in the fleet with Solomon's men.H2438H7971H590H5650H582H591H3045H3220H5650H801028They sailed to Ophir and brought back 420 talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.H935H211H3947H2091H702H3967H6242H3603H935H4428H8010