1 Kings 9

The Lord Appears to Solomon

1 j As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord k and the king's house and l all that Solomon desired to build, 2 m the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. 3 And the Lord said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, n by putting my name there forever. o My eyes and my heart will be there for all time. 4 And as for you, if you will p walk before me, q as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules, 5 r then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, 'You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.' 6 s But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, 7 t then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, u and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, v and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 8 And this house will become a heap of ruins. 1 Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, w 'Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?' 9 Then they will say, 'Because x they abandoned the Lord their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore the Lord has brought all this disaster on them.'"

Solomon's Other Acts

10 y At the end of z twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house, 11 and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 12 But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, they did not please him. 13 Therefore he said, "What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?" So they are called the land of a Cabul to this day. 14 Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents 2 of gold.

15 And this is the account of b the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the Lord and his own house and c the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and d Hazor and e Megiddo and Gezer 16 (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed f the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to g his daughter, Solomon's wife; 17 so Solomon rebuilt Gezer) and h Lower Beth-horon 18 and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah, 3 19 and all the store cities that Solomon had, and i the cities for his chariots, and the cities for j his horsemen, and whatever Solomon k desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. 20 All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel - 21 l their descendants who were left after them in the land, m whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction 4 - n these Solomon drafted to be o slaves, and so they are to this day. 22 But p of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves. They were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.

23 These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work: q 550 r who had charge of the people who carried on the work.

24 But g Pharaoh's daughter went up from the city of David to s her own house that Solomon had built for her. t Then he built u the Millo.

25 Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he built to the Lord, making offerings with it 5 before the Lord. So he finished the house.

26 King Solomon built a fleet of ships at v Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 27 And Hiram sent w with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon. 28 And they went to x Ophir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon.

  1. Cross References
    1 Kings 9:1 - 9
    As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the king's house and all that Solomon desired to build.
    2 Chronicles 7:11 - 22
    Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord and the king's house. All that Solomon had planned to do in the house of the Lord and in his own house he successfully accomplished.
  2. Cross References
    1 Kings 7:1
    Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.
    2 Chronicles 8:1
    At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house.
  3. Cross References
    1 Kings 9:19
    And all the store cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
    2 Chronicles 8:6
    And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had and all the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
  4. Cross References
    1 Kings 3:5
    At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, "Ask what I shall give you.
    1 Kings 11:9
    And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice
  5. Cross References
    1 Kings 8:16
    'Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there. But I chose David to be over my people Israel.'
    1 Kings 8:29
    That your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you have said, 'My name shall be there,' that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.
  6. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 11:12
    A land that the Lord your God cares for. The eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
  7. Cross References
    Genesis 17:1
    When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
  8. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:4
    For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
    1 Kings 11:6
    So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord, as David his father had done.
    1 Kings 11:38
    And if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
    1 Kings 14:8
    And tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, and yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, doing only that which was right in my eyes.
    1 Kings 15:5
    Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
  9. Cross References
    1 Kings 6:12
    Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
    1 Chronicles 22:10
    He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.
    1 Kings 2:4
    That the Lord may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.
  10. Cross References
    2 Samuel 7:14
    I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men.
    Psalms 89:30
    If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my rules.
    Psalms 89:32
    Then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes.
  11. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:26
    I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed.
    2 Kings 17:23
    Until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.
    2 Kings 25:21
    And the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.
  12. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:14
    Therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
  13. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:37
    And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away.
    Psalms 44:14
    You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
  14. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 29:24 - 26
    All the nations will say, 'Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?
    Jeremiah 22:8 - 9
    "'And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, "Why has the Lord dealt thus with this great city?"
  15. Cross References
    1 Kings 18:18
    And he answered, "I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father's house, because you have abandoned the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals.
  16. Cross References
    1 Kings 9:10 - 28
    At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house.
    2 Chronicles 8:1 - 18
    At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house.
  17. Cross References
    1 Kings 6:37 - 38
    In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, in the month of Ziv.
    1 Kings 7:1
    Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.
  18. Cross References
    Joshua 19:27
    Then it turns eastward, it goes to Beth-dagon, and touches Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtahel northward to Beth-emek and Neiel. Then it continues in the north to Cabul.
  19. Cross References
    1 Kings 5:13
    King Solomon drafted forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men.
  20. Cross References
    1 Kings 9:24
    But Pharaoh's daughter went up from the city of David to her own house that Solomon had built for her. Then he built the Millo.
    2 Samuel 5:9
    And David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built the city all around from the Millo inward.
  21. Cross References
    Joshua 11:1
    When Jabin, king of Hazor, heard of this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph.
  22. Cross References
    Joshua 17:11
    Also in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Naphath.
  23. Cross References
    Joshua 16:10
    However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor.
  24. Cross References
    1 Kings 3:1
    Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.
    1 Kings 7:8
    His own house where he was to dwell, in the other court back of the hall, was of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter whom he had taken in marriage.
  25. Cross References
    Joshua 10:10
    And the Lord threw them into a panic before Israel, who struck them with a great blow at Gibeon and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.
  26. Cross References
    1 Kings 10:26
    And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
    2 Chronicles 1:14
    Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
    2 Chronicles 9:25
    And Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
  27. Cross References
    1 Kings 4:26
    Solomon also had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.
  28. Cross References
    1 Kings 9:1
    As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the king's house and all that Solomon desired to build.
  29. Cross References
    Judges 1:21
    But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
    Judges 1:27
    Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.
    Judges 1:29
    And Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.
    Judges 3:1
    Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.
  30. Cross References
    Joshua 15:63
    But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out, so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
    Joshua 17:12
    Yet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.
  31. Cross References
    Judges 1:28
    When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not drive them out completely.
  32. Cross References
    Ezra 2:55 - 58
    The sons of Solomon's servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Hassophereth, the sons of Peruda.
    Nehemiah 7:57 - 60
    The sons of Solomon's servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Perida.
    Nehemiah 11:3
    These are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the towns of Judah everyone lived on his property in their towns: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the descendants of Solomon's servants.
  33. Cross References
    Leviticus 25:39
    If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:
  34. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 8:10
    And these were the chief officers of King Solomon, 250, who exercised authority over the people.
  35. Cross References
    1 Kings 5:16
    Besides Solomon's 3,300 chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
  36. Cross References
    1 Kings 9:16
    (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
  37. Cross References
    1 Kings 7:8
    His own house where he was to dwell, in the other court back of the hall, was of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter whom he had taken in marriage.
  38. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:27
    And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king. Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of David his father.
    2 Samuel 5:9
    And David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built the city all around from the Millo inward.
    2 Chronicles 32:5
    He set to work resolutely and built up all the wall that was broken down and raised towers upon it, and outside it he built another wall, and he strengthened the Millo in the city of David. He also made weapons and shields in abundance.
  39. Cross References
    1 Kings 9:15
    And this is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the Lord and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer
  40. Cross References
    1 Kings 22:48
    Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go, for the ships were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
    Numbers 33:35
    And they set out from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber.
    Deuteronomy 2:8
    So we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber. "And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.
  41. Cross References
    1 Kings 10:11
    Moreover, the fleet of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir a very great amount of almug wood and precious stones.
  42. Cross References
    1 Kings 10:11
    Moreover, the fleet of Hiram, which brought gol...
    1 Kings 22:48
    Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Oph...
    1 Chronicles 29:4
    3,000 talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, an...
    Job 22:24
    If you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir ...
    Job 28:16
    It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in pr...
    Psalms 45:9
    Daughters of kings are among your ladies of hon...
    Isaiah 13:12
    I will make people more rare than fine gold, an...
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