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1 Kings 9
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1And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Jehovah, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,
1After Solomon had finished building the temple of the LORD, the royal palace, and everything else he had planned to do,
2that Jehovah appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
2the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, just as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
3And Jehovah 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 my heart shall be there perpetually.
3The LORD said to him: 'I have heard the prayer and the plea you made to me. I have set this temple apart as holy, which you have built to honor my name forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.'
4And as for thee, 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 mine ordinances;
4'As for you, if you live as your father David did, with integrity and honesty, and if you do everything I have commanded and obey my rules and laws,
5then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever, according as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
5then I will make your royal throne secure over Israel forever. This is what I promised your father David when I said, "You will never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel."
6But if ye shall turn away from following me, ye or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
6'But if you or your children turn away from following me and do not keep the commands and laws I have given you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
7then 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 peoples.
7then I will uproot Israel from the land I have given them. I will reject this temple that I have made holy for my name. Israel will become an object of mockery and a joke among all the nations.
8And though this house is so high, yet shall every one that passeth by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath Jehovah done thus unto this land, and to this house?
8And though this temple is now magnificent, everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will whistle in surprise. They will ask, "Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?"
9and they shall answer, Because they forsook Jehovah their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath Jehovah brought all this evil upon them.
9People will answer, "It is because they abandoned the LORD their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt. They embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them. That is why the LORD has brought all this disaster on them."'
10And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the king’s house
10After the twenty years it took Solomon to build the two buildings—the temple of the LORD and the royal palace—
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.
11King Solomon gave twenty towns in the region of Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre. This was because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar, pine, and gold he wanted.
12And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
12But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.
13And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.
13'What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?' he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul, a name they still have today.
14And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
14Now Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold.
15And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
15King Solomon drafted workers to build the temple of the LORD, his own palace, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, and the cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
16Pharaoh 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 portion unto his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
16(Pharaoh king of Egypt had captured Gezer, burned it down, and killed the Canaanites who lived there. He gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.)
18and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,
18Baalath, and Tamar in the desert region of the land.
19and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
19He also built all his storage cities, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horses, and whatever else he wanted to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom.
20As for all the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;
20There were still people left from the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—these were people who were not Israelites.
21their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants unto this day.
21Solomon forced the descendants of these people who remained in the land—those the Israelites had not been able to completely destroy—into slave labor, and they remain so today.
22But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
22But Solomon did not make any of the Israelites slaves. Instead, they were his soldiers, officials, officers, captains, and the commanders of his chariots and charioteers.
23These were the chief officers that were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, who bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.
23There were 550 chief officials in charge of Solomon’s projects, supervising the people who did the work.
24But 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.
24After Pharaoh’s daughter moved from the City of David to the palace Solomon had built for her, he constructed the Millo.
25And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt-offerings and peace-offerings upon the altar which he built unto Jehovah, burning incense therewith, upon the altar that was before Jehovah. So he finished the house.
25Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD. He also burned incense before the LORD. So he finished the work on the temple.
26And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
26King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.