st Kings _Chapter 9

Solomon built the temple of the Lord and the palace of the king, and all that he desired to build was completed,

The Lord appeared to Solomon again, just as he had appeared to him in Gibeon before,

Say to him, I have answered all your prayers and prayers to me. I have consecrated the temple you have built, so that my name may remain in it forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

If you follow the example of your father David and walk before me with honesty and uprightness, doing all that I command you and keeping my laws and regulations,

I will strengthen your throne in Israel forever, just as I promised your father David, ‘Your descendants will never cease to sit on the throne of Israel.’.

If you and your descendants turn away and do not follow me, do not keep the commandments and laws I have instructed you, and go to serve and worship other gods,

I will cut off the Israelites from the land I have given them, and I will also abandon and disregard the temple that I have consecrated for my name, so that the Israelites may be a laughingstock among all the people and be mocked.

Although this temple is very high, those who will pass by will be surprised and scoff, saying, Why has the Lord done this to this land and this temple?

People will answer, “Because of this, the people of the land have abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt, and have come near other gods to serve and worship them. Therefore, the Lord has brought all this calamity upon them.”.

Solomon built the temple of the Lord and the palace of the king, which took twenty years to complete.

King Solomon gave twenty cities in the land of Galilee to Hiram, who had provided him with cedar, pine, and gold as Solomon had requested.

When Hiram came out of Tyre and examined the cities that Solomon had given him, he was displeased,

Say, my brother, what city are you giving me? He named the land of this city Gabriel to this day.

Hiram gave Solomon one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

King Solomon took the people who had suffered to build the temple of the Lord, his own palace, Milo, the walls of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

Previously, King Pharaoh of Egypt came up and captured Gezer, burned it with fire, and killed the Canaanites living in the city. He gave the city as a dowry to Solomon’s wife, his daughter.

Solomon built Gezer, Lower Beth and Horon,

Bara, and Damo in the wilderness of the country,

And he built all the cities of hoarding, and cities of chariots and horsemen, as well as Jerusalem, Lebanon, and all the land he ruled, as he desired.

As for the remaining Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites who were not of the Israelites in the land,

Solomon chose their descendants as slaves to be enslaved to this day, which the Israelites could not completely destroy.

Only the Israelites, Solomon did not make them slaves, but rather his warriors, servants, commanders, commanders, charioteers, and cavalry.

Solomon had fifty supervisors who supervised the workers.

Pharaoh’s daughter moved from the city of David to the palace Solomon had built for her. At that time, Solomon built Milo.

Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings three times a year on the altar he built for the Lord, and burned incense on the altar before the Lord. In this way, his construction of the temple was completed.

King Solomon built ships by the Red Sea in the land of Edom, near Ezion Geber in Eloth.

Hiram sent his servants, boatmen familiar with the sea, to sail with Solomon’s servants.

They arrived at Ophir and received four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, which they brought to King Solomon.